Feb 13, 2013
Aspiring young entrepreneurs associated with the Skills Village project in central Johannesburg are now one step closer to being their own boss, after emerging telecoms operator BitCo provided them with the ICT tools necessary to kick-start their dreams. After being...
Feb 12, 2013
The growth in the use of electronic payment products, such as credit and debit cards, added $8-billion to the gross domestic product (GDP) of South Africa, according to a study conducted for Visa by Moody’s Analytics. The study of 56 countries, including South Africa,...
Feb 12, 2013
There will soon be more than 54-million mobile users in South Africa, and traffic over mobile networks will increase by about 58% every year. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017, in the Middle East and...
Feb 12, 2013
Business intelligence (BI) and analytics continue to be a top CIO investment priority – yet user surveys by Gartner show that only 30% of potential users in an organisation adopt CIO-sponsored analytics tools. This appears to be changing, however, as...
Feb 12, 2013
South Africa has committed to a low-carbon economy, and companies are invited to join the debate around the National Climate Change Response White Paper. On 26 February, Champions of the Environment Foundation in partnership with the Gordon Institute of Business...
Feb 12, 2013
Africa’s largest glass manufacturer, Consol Glass, has extended its contract for five years with T-Systems in South Africa. The extension underscores a six-year partnership which has, among other things, seen Consol migrating its SAP business application...
