Tech, incentives change Vitality users’ behaviour

A new study shows that Discovery’s Vitality incentives, combined with Apple Watch, deliver dramatic and sustained improvements in physical activity levels. Incentives and Physical Activity, the largest behaviour tech study based on verified data, found an...

Money mules used in new type of fraud

Technology is designed to bring greater efficiencies but there is often a downside where it creates loopholes for opportunistic tactics and fraud. Banks are using biometrics (fingerprint identification) to verify account holders. Although this brings greater security...

Daka, Barkhuizen top IITPSA awards

Etion’s Teddy Daka and Absa’s Jacques Barkhuizen have been named SA’s IT Personality and Visionary CIO of the Year at the SA IT industry’s top annual awards. The annual Institute of Information Technology Professionals SA (IITPSA) 2018...

Long road ahead to meet SDG targets

Nearly three quarter of organisations (72%) globally mention the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their annual corporate or sustainability reports – an increase of 10% on last year, according to a new study by PwC. But concrete measures and...

Social media supports climate change consensus

New research shows the social media content is broadly supportive of scientific climate change consensus, despite the wealth of fake new and pseudo-science content out there. Research by the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. centred around concerns are...

Nedbank’s MobiMoney pilot attracts 50 000 users

In less than eight weeks, Nedbank’s new mobile account MobiMoney has seen more than 50 000 people sign up in the Soweto, Tembisa, Mamelodi and Soshanguve areas where the solution was piloted. In addition, these MobiMoney users have already conducted more than...