Jan 27, 2016
South Africa has slightly improved its ranking on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, coming in at number 61, with a score of 44. To put this into perspective, top-rated Denmark has a score of 91, while bottom-rated Somalia scores just 8....
Jan 26, 2016
Only 45% of organisations worldwide are confident in their security posture as today’s attackers launch more sophisticated, bold and resilient campaigns. This is according to the Cisco Annual Secueity Report, which examines threat intelligence and cyber-security...
Jan 25, 2016
The “combined value” to society and industry of the digitisation that is already occurring in every industry could generate upwards of $100-trillion over the next 10 years, with society set to gain more than business. However, this transformation also...
Jan 22, 2016
Even as digital media users spend more time online than they sleep, only every second user thinks it has improved their quality of life. This is according to more than 5 000 digital media users from Brazil, China, Germany, South Africa and the US. Paradoxically,...
Jan 21, 2016
Earth’s 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Globally-averaged temperatures in 2015 shattered the previous...
Jan 20, 2016
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes developments in previously disjointed fields such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, and genetics and biotechnology, will cause widespread disruption not only to...
