At the Cisco Connect conference, Cisco outlined its commitment to support the digitization of Africa’s communities, businesses, and governments through several initiatives for skills and talent development, innovation and job creation.

Cisco and Manchester Metropolitan University, together with The Foundation for Digital Creativity today announced the launch of thingQbator, an on-campus IoT Makerspace to help fuel the digital talent pipeline in the city.

Cisco announced plans to open a new Cisco Center of Excellence and Co-Innovation center, focusing on Privacy and Cybersecurity, to be located in Milan, Italy.

• Digitaliani is Cisco’s Program to Help Accelerate Digitization in Italy • Skills, Security, Social impact: new projects related to digital skills, cybersecurity and the positive impact of technology on people and society • 1 Mio USD Donation for Social Project to Help Homeless People

Today Cisco is announcing innovative solutions that help customers embrace a new age of wireless connectivity. Wi-Fi 6 (also known as 802.11ax), the new standard for Wi-Fi networks, is redefining what’s possible for businesses — powering a new era of immersive wireless experiences and the connecting of billions of things. Cisco is also extending the industry’s most extensive campus networking portfolio by delivering a campus core switch purpose-built for cloud-scale networking. By coupling powerful automation and analytics software with a complete array of next-generation switches, access points, and controllers for the campus, Cisco enables the industry’s only end-to-end, wireless-first architecture.

The goal of DevNet is to create a community of infrastructure and application developers and give them hands-on experience and insights via pre-packaged tutorials, instructor-led teaching by highly qualified sales engineers and rewarding through games.

Building on the success of previous events around the world, Cisco’s DevNet Express initiative was today expanded into Bahrain.

digitalswitzerland and Cisco announced today they are collaborating on a joint ICT education initiative based on the educational platform of digitalswitzerland. As part of this collaboration, Cisco Networking Academy courses and content are available on educationdigital.ch for free.

• Cisco Webex Teams and Meetings receive “BSI Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalogue” (C5) attestation • Cisco recognizes the value of explicitly designing and building its cloud offerings to meet the requirements of the C5 catalogue • Increased security for public authorities, financial services, and critical infrastructures