Africa shines as a global business services destination

Africa shines as a global business services destination

Sep 2, 2021

As the world continues its recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, Africa is emerging from an otherwise crippling crisis as a favourable region for global business services (GBS) and outsourcing. The combined Africa domestic and international GBS sector is estimated to...
Bird’s-eye observations reveal surprises in Earth’s space interface

Bird’s-eye observations reveal surprises in Earth’s space interface

Sep 1, 2021

New research using data from NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (Gold) mission, has revealed unexpected behaviour in the swaths of charged particles that band Earth’s equator. This is made possible by Gold’s long-term global view, the first of its...
Wits PhD student cracks high-dimensional quantum code

Wits PhD student cracks high-dimensional quantum code

Aug 31, 2021

Isaac Nape, an emerging South African talent in the study of quantum optics, is part of a team of Wits physicists who led an international study that revealed the hidden structures of quantum entangled states. The study was published in Nature Communications, on...
Cloud trends set the scene for SA’s business growth

Cloud trends set the scene for SA’s business growth

Aug 30, 2021

South African companies moved quickly to the cloud in 2020, and this momentum is set to continue in 2021, according to the IDC South African Public Cloud Market study 2021-2025. Cloud deployments underwent rapid growth in 2020 as enterprises raced to connect...
Gauteng unveils 4IR strategy, opens Centre of Excellence

Gauteng unveils 4IR strategy, opens Centre of Excellence

Aug 27, 2021

Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG) aims to provide 100% of its services digitally in the near future. This is one of the goals of the Gauteng’s 4IR Growth and Digitalisation Strategy, launched today along with the opening of the Gauteng Centre of Excellence...