Nov 7, 2025
Urban October sent a clear message to governments to build people-centred smart cities where technology, data, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) are leveraged to improve daily life and help communities recover from shocks. This global day highlights...
Nov 6, 2025
Every business leader is talking about artificial intelligence. Few are truly transforming because of it and the reason is deceptively simple: you cannot be AI-driven without first being data-trustworthy. By Matt Surkont, co-CEO of BlueSky Technology can generate...
Oct 29, 2025
The conversation around data analytics often centres on technology – dashboards, AI tools, and machine learning models. But the true differentiator between organisations that use data effectively and those that merely collect it isn’t software. It’s culture. A...
Oct 29, 2025
As organisations rush to adopt artificial intelligence, many are building sophisticated systems that solve imaginary problems, Nedbank’s group technology executive for product management Makopi Nkopodi has a clear message: AI initiatives must be explicitly...
Oct 1, 2025
Kasipreneurship – otherwise known as Kasi businesses – represents a vital yet virtually untapped economy across South Africa’s townships, where cash remains king and small businesses are excluded from formal financial inclusion due to traditional and outdated...
Sep 23, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making have reinforced data as the new currency of economic and social power. Dhesen Ramsamy, group chief technology and data officer at Old Mutual, talks data, value, governance and citizen trust. AI’s reliance on...
