Gartner identifies a framework for digital society regulation

Current rules and regulations are under stress as society increases its digitalisation. Gartner says CEOs, CIOs and other executives must collaborate on new rules to protect individuals and groups while encouraging an innovative growing economy. “Trust in...

Cyber readiness stalls as attacks reach new intensity

There has been a sharp increase in the number and cost of cyber-attack, with more than three out of five firms (61%) reporting one or more attacks in the past year. But the proportion of companies achieving top scores for their cyber security readiness is marginally...

Training makes legal departments more cost-effective

Cost-effective legal departments allocate almost twice as much of their in-house budget to training than higher-cost peers, according to Gartner. The most cost-effective legal departments commit to a strategy of continuous improvement of their in-house capabilities,...

Is SA food insecure or are we wasting too much?

South Africans are not heeding the call to save food. According to a new report, “2017 Food Loss and Waste: Facts and Futures” from the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF-SA), a third of all food in the country is not eaten but wasted....

Wits spearheads African AI research initiative

The Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), in partnership with the Cirrus Initiative, has announced plans for a new artificial intelligence (AI) research operation in Africa. Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, deputy vice-chancellor:...

International tourism up in 2019

International tourist arrivals grew 4% from January to June 2019, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer published ahead of the 23rd World Tourism Organization General Assembly. Growth was led by the Middle East...