Mar 8, 2023
Kathy Gibson reports – Just about every organisation in Africa is in desperate need of more tech skills. This is the headline finding from new SAP research, “Africa’s tech skills scarcity revealed”, conducted by VansonBourne. The survey shows...
Mar 7, 2023
Using commercial, high-resolution satellite images and artificial intelligence, an international team including NASA scientists mapped almost 10-billion individual trees in Africa’s drylands in order to assess the amount of carbon stored outside of the continent’s...
Mar 6, 2023
The digital connectivity divide separating the globe’s least developed countries (LDCs) from the world as a whole shows no sign of narrowing. In fact, it is widening on key factors, according to ITU’s Facts and Figures: Focus on Least Developed Countries....
Mar 3, 2023
The do-it-yourself climate modeling movement is here. Researchers from Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory have been launching Nvidia Jetson-driven edge computing Waggle devices across the globe to collect hyper-local climate information. Waggle is...
Mar 2, 2023
The leadership pipeline for women has hollowed out in the middle, according to a new global study “Women in leadership: Why perception outpaces the pipeline – and what to do about it” from the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) and Chief. The...
Mar 1, 2023
A newly released study revealed that South Africans’ online spending patterns and behaviour continued to grow at a rapid pace in 2022 – despite the country’s ongoing recovery from lockdown restrictions and social distancing. The comprehensive results...
