Feb 7, 2024
There’s no question that a smart city extends beyond infrastructure and urban planning, writes Mpho Matsitse, executive: business and digital advisory at BCX. For a smart city to work, it requires smart citizens and technology plays a pivotal role in enabling...
Jun 21, 2023
South African businesses are experiencing a significant impact in their information technology (IT) departments due to the recent wave of digitalisation. By Lebohang Monaheng, senior manager: applications and digital solutions at Sizwe Africa IT Group According to...
May 23, 2023
While the threats posed by hackers and other cybercriminals to organisations’ networks and data are common knowledge, what is less known is that the biggest cyberthreat often resides within the organisation itself – in the form of its employees. This is...
May 22, 2023
It is hard to argue with the fact that the future of computing for most public sector organisations lies in the cloud. The scalability, agility and innovation unlocked by cloud solutions simply offer an unbeatable value proposition that on-premise solutions cannot...
Apr 4, 2023
Despite ongoing digitalisation, a great deal of business still gets done on paper in both the public and private sectors. Although the percentage of paper records is declining, a third of respondents in a survey indicated that they are currently storing over 100 000...
Jan 17, 2023
The cloud offers agility, accessibility and scale to public sector organisations, with IDC describing cloud as a key enabler for digital government, and Gartner predicting that over 75% of governments will operate more than half of workloads using hyperscale cloud...
