Telkom, Wits establish R&D lab focused on industry solutions

Telkom and the University of the Witwatersrand have signed a partnership agreement to establish the new Telkom Industry Solutions Lab, a commercial research and development (R&D) facility dedicated to accelerating synergistic collaboration between industry and...

Technical skills needed to tackle youth unemployment

Although South Africa’s youth unemployment rate dropped slightly in the fourth quarter of 2022, the situation remains critical, with the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) revealing that 4,6-million young people are looking for jobs. Considering that...

Navigating the complexities of patient consent for health data

Even though healthcare is driven by data, it needs patient consent for providers to optimally leverage it across the myriad of disparate systems that currently exist. According to InterSystems South Africa, a creative data technology provider, if this consent is not...

How geospatial data is revolutionising banking

Change is constant in today’s world. In the financial services and banking sector this presents unique challenges, such as increasing competition, ongoing regulatory compliance requirements, and rising customer expectations. By Charl Fouché, chief operations...

AI in education: transforming learning or disrupting the system?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been on an exponential rise in recent months, with its impact being felt and experienced across every sector, with a particularly widespread ripple in education. With over a decade’s teaching experience and well-versed in African...

Leveraging health data in the intelligent automation of underwriting

Given the myriad of stakeholders along the healthcare journey – from doctors and pharmacists to nurses and hospitals- integrating the almost countless, disparate data sets to get a singular view of a consumer is a complex undertaking. By Simon Spurr, MD of Alula...