The luxury of outsourcing for ‘free’

In October last year, Discovery and Dialdirect, in conjunction with the City of JoBurg, launched the Pothole Patrol app, which would allow drivers to report potholes using geolocation data. By Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings This wasn’t the first time an app...

Digital transformation is a business imperative

While digital transformation may seem like an overwhelming exercise for enterprises with a large investment in legacy infrastructure, the reality is that it has become imperative. By Amritesh Anand, associate vice-president at In2IT Technologies The longer businesses...

Building and enabling smart and sustainable cities

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities today and according to analysts, more than two thirds of all people will inhabit an urban environment by 2050. Smart cities of the future will have to provide affordable data-driven infrastructure in order...

Digital and resilience will shape the future

Volatility, uncertainty and instability. These are the foundations on which CEOs have to build resilient and sustainable organisations as they move forward into 2023. Alan Turnley-Jones, CEO of Dimension Data, reflects on the key trends, challenges and opportunities...

What will it take to make the metaverse real?

Everyone’s talking about the metaverse–and with good reason. It’ll open a whole new universe of visual, tactile, and collaborative experiences. Here’s what I’m thinking as well as what I’m hearing from conversations with customers,...