Tech-savvy youth could plug cybersecurity skills gap

World Youth Skills Day is celebrated on 15 July, highlighting rising youth unemployment and the steps that need to be taken to curb this challenge globally. According to the UN, at least 475-million new jobs need to be created over the next decade to absorb the...

Local entrepreneur develops scholar transport tracking solution

A mad dash to the school to find a missing child when the driver wasn’t answering his phone inspired entrepreneur Tshidi Morabi to create LocTransie, a mobile app allows parents to track the scholar transport vehicle in real time and provides SMS notifications...

PC market rides several trends to produce solid results

Preliminary results for the global traditional PC market, inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, totaled 64,9-million units in the second quarter of 2019 (2Q19), according to International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing...

Ride the four waves of digital disruption

CIOs today can find themselves drowning in a sea of new technology developments – and many are comfortable waiting for the early adopters to figure things out first, then following. “The wait-and-see approach will no longer work for CIOs,” says Leigh...
Police, politicians perceived to be most corrupt

Police, politicians perceived to be most corrupt

More than half of all citizens surveyed in 35 African countries think corruption is getting worse in their country – and a massive 59% of people think their government is doing badly at tackling corruption. The largest and most detailed survey of citizens’...

Just 25% of business leaders are confident about cyber security

Just a quarter (25%) of business leaders across Europe, Middle East and Africa are confident in their current cyber security, according to a new study commissioned by VMware in partnership with Forbes Insights. Three quarters (76%) of business leaders and IT security...