CiTi expands access to skills, job readiness

The Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) has announced a significant scale-up of its CapaCiTi technology skills and job readiness programmes. CapaCiTi is now training young, unemployed South Africans in Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth as well as at...

Tips for addressing gender imbalance in tech

Despite decades of progress towards achieving equality in the workplace, women remain significantly under-represented in emerging tech. The imbalance between men and women in the technology sector is unlikely to be remedied unless organisations, schools and...

Spring comes early for iWeek 2018

The annual gathering of Internet industry professionals, iWeek, that has been held every year for 17 years will be held in August for the first time ever, about two weeks earlier that its traditional September time slot. Founded and hosted by South Africa’s...

Free floating carsharing services take off

A new report from IoT analyst firm Berg Insight finds that most carsharing organisations today use station-based networks with roundtrip rental which requires users to return a vehicle to the same designated station from which it was accessed. Another operational...

Blockchain secures online voting

Online voting appeals to many aspects of modern society, such as geographically spread communities, or progressive universities wanting to hear their students’ voices. It also appeals to global NGOs, and municipalities looking for citizen involvement in...
TESS embarks on a mission to find new planets

TESS embarks on a mission to find new planets

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), set to launch today (16 April 2018), is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system, including those that could support life. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block...