Telecommunications
Vodacom Group
South Africa's leading telecommunications operator, majority-owned by Vodafone Group, pursuing AI transformation through a strategic collaboration with Google Cloud (consolidating Vodacom's distributed data assets via BigQuery into a unified data layer) and a July 2026 AI/data-science talent partnership with the University of Johannesburg and AWS. Vodacom operates eight data centers in South Africa and has separately welcomed AWS's launch of local data centers in the country.
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Jul 2026 · AI talent partnership with UJ and AWS
Vodacom, the University of Johannesburg, and AWS launched a strategic AI and data-science skills initiative, delivered through UJ's Centre for Applied Data Science, combining co-designed curricula, postgraduate research funding, and industry mentorship.