Technology at the core of Eastern Cape education vision

Kathy Gibson is at the E-Learning Summit in East London – The Eastern Cape has a clear vision to use IT and e-learning to help it meet its education goals. Mfanawethu Cele, CES: e-learning at the Eastern Cape Department of Education, stresses that the EC DoE aims to...
Digital framework key to enable e-learning

Digital framework key to enable e-learning

Kathy Gibson is at the E-Learning Summit in East London – Job losses are inevitable if learners are not equipped with the skills they need to compete in the digital world. “Technology is key to empowering learners to live with the fourth industrial revolution,” says...

High-stakes experience economy is here to stay

Kathy Gibson is at Saphila in Sun City – The experience economy is here to stay – and the ability to embrace it could spell the difference between success and failure for companies. Enterprise business is about developing products, marketing them, selling...

9 out of 10 locals use mobile browser daily

Browser developer Opera has released its latest State of Mobile Web 2019 report today, giving detailed insight into the African digital landscape. The report reveals that the Opera mobile browsers and standalone news app were used by nearly 20-million Internet users...

Employers cautious on hiring in Q3

According to the most recent ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey, South African employers report cautious hiring plans for the third quarter of 2019. With 8% of employers anticipating an increase in payrolls, 6% forecasting a decrease, and 85% expecting no change,...

CDOs need higher strategic focus

Chief data officers (CDOs) and their data and analytics (DA) teams are focusing on the right priorities, but they are not yet achieving the best balance of their various responsibilities to deliver superior organisational performance, says a new Gartner survey....