Feb 14, 2018
Kathy Gibson at Accenture TechVision 2018 – Enterprises have to change the way they connect with customers and employees as technology fundamentally changes the business landscape. Pervasive connectivity is a reality, and for the most part this is good – but for the...
Feb 14, 2018
Meaningful artificial intelligence (AI) deployments are just beginning to take place, according to Gartner. Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda Survey shows that 4% of CIOs have implemented AI, while a further 46% have developed plans to do so. “Despite huge levels of...
Feb 14, 2018
Kathy Gibson reports from PwC’s pre-budget review – As social, political and economic uncertainty preys on South Africans, one thing is certain: there’s a huge revenue deficit that has to be addressed in the budget next week. “For the last few years we have...
Feb 14, 2018
The BankservAfrica Economic Transaction Index (BETI), a broad indicator of South Africa’s economic activity, increased in January at its fastest rate on a year-on-year basis since August 2013. The actual number of transactions that underpinned the BETI increased by...
Feb 14, 2018
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has set its sights on regulating the budding financial technology (fintech) and cryptocurrency sectors. It is also investigating the uses and application of blockchain-based distributed ledger technology in a national context. The...
Feb 14, 2018
While headlines focus on negative news, Bill and Melinda Gates believe the world is getting better. In their 2018 annual letter, the couple point out that the number of children who die every year has been cut in half since 1990 and extreme poverty has declined by...
