Government ICT strong on planning

Government ICT strong on planning

How much does government spend on ICT? Is it enough? And is it well spent? We hear much about lack of coordination, shortages of key skills and an unhappy workforce in SITA, along with challenges in implementing policy aimed at promoting e-services and narrowing the...
How to do digital transformation

How to do digital transformation

Kathy Gibson reports from SAP TechEd in Barcelona – Digital transformation shouldn’t be considered as a technology issue. In fact, it’s not even so much a business issue as it is a leadership challenge. Dr Carsten Linz, head of the Centre for Digital...
SAP starts spending on IoT

SAP starts spending on IoT

Kathy Gibson reports from SAP TechEd in Barcelona – SAP is moving quickly with its intent to spend $2-billion on developing its Internet of Things (IoT) capacity, and has announced two new products in its IoT portfolio. The first is a parking application...
SA’s execs bullish about future

SA’s execs bullish about future

SA’s top executives are confident that they will be fairly compensated – in terms of 2016 year-end bonuses and salary increases in 2017 – despite the current political and economic rollercoaster in which South Africa finds itself. Furthermore, the...
African first for OR Tambo

African first for OR Tambo

OR Tambo International Airport has become the first African airport to implement a Smart Security checkpoint that will digitise the security check process, speed up passenger progress through security and further enhance security through use of state-of-the-art...
Arctic sea ice losing its bulwark

Arctic sea ice losing its bulwark

Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades: as its extent shrunk, the oldest and thickest ice has either thinned or melted away, leaving the sea ice...