Universities take the lead in science research

Wits will lead a consortium to establish a national e-science teaching and training platform. The platform is intended to develop suitable curricula and pedagogic interventions to advance the training of postgraduate students in the rapidly developing cross-discipline...

Few protect against public WiFi threats

Free public WiFi stats from ITRC (Identity Theft Resource Center) show that 78,5% of people who connect to publically available Internet networks believe that using public WiFi can lead to identity theft – and yet only 26,7% percent use VPN, the most reliable...

UbuntuNet, Seacom partner for education

UbuntuNet Alliance has awarded a 15-year contract to pan-African telecom enabler Seacom to provide point to point connectivity services to National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) of Eastern and Southern Africa through the European Union co-funded...

Election accountability through citizen-centricity

Citizen-centric service delivery will enable the public to hold authorities to account for the promises they made in the build up to local government elections. This is according to Patrick Shields, chief technology officer at Software AG, who says citizen-centricity...

Mobile banking drives digital transformation

Mobile banking represents a broad example of the digital transformation currently taking place in the industry. But, as with the likes of cloud computing and service provider technologies, it is the data centre that lies at the centre of this change, says Rick...
Robots to bring asteroids home

Robots to bring asteroids home

NASA is ready to move on to the next phase of design and development of its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which could culminate in capturing asteroids, putting them into orbit around the moon and mining them for minerals, before becoming part of the journey to...