Oct 15, 2024
Kathy Gibson reports – South Africa leads the sub-Sahara Africa region in digitisation, with the highest Internet penetration rates in Africa. As such, it is in a good position to drive economic growth through the use of technology. Google South Africa’s Economic...
Oct 14, 2024
Globally, we find ourselves at the threshold of irreversible climate change. Global warming – once a distant theory – has been an immediate and growing threat for some time, driven largely by greenhouse gas emissions as a result of energy consumption and...
Oct 11, 2024
A staggering 627-million individuals globally – more than the populations of the US and Brazil combined – are excluded from essential digital services, including financial services, education, healthcare, and employment platforms. The is according to global...
Oct 10, 2024
Cyber claims have continued their upward trend over the past year – driven in large part by a rise in data and privacy breach incidents, according to Allianz Commercial’s annual cyber risk outlook. The frequency of large cyber claims (>€1-million) in the...
Oct 9, 2024
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 to John J Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey E Hinton of the University of Toronto. This year’s two Nobel Laureates in Physics used tools from physics to develop methods that...
Oct 8, 2024
Gen Z is an age group that has never known a time without the Internet; they’ve shared their life milestones on Instagram and are now moving to the beat of TikTok trends; their appetite for digital is unprecedented; globalisation and economic uncertainty have been a...
