How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

Drones deliver predator bugs for sustainable pest control

High tech is being combined with ancient natural remedies at one of South Africa's best-known wine farms, where buzzing benefactors are helping to keep the vineyards pest-free. Vergelegen wine estate in Somerset West is testing the use of drone-delivered beneficial...

Lack of knowledge causes mistakes for cybersecurity experts

With human error causing nearly two-thirds of all cyber incidents in the past two years, more than 50% of acting cybersecurity professionals admit they made mistakes early in their career due to a lack of theoretical or practical knowledge, a new global study...

Orchid sexually exploits male beetles – a world first from Africa

Dr Callan Cohen, a research associate of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, has discovered a world pollination first: an orchid that sexually exploits longhorn beetles. The near-extinct Disa forficaria, known from a...

Resellers cry foul as SITA confirms tender exclusions

By Kathy Gibson – A group of resellers is crying foul over the State IT Agency (SITA)’s handling of the ongoing RFB0740 tender controversy. Having won what appeared to be a commitment to address their grievances yesterday morning, events in the afternoon seem to have...

Balance risk management and productivity when using RPA

As robotic process automation (RPA) moves from the testing phase to full adoption in most finance departments, controllers must optimise their governance processes to balance risk management processes without stifling the productivity that the technology provides,...

Firms should shelve NPS as customer service measure

By 2025, more than 75% of organisations will have abandoned Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a measure of success for customer service and support, according to Gartner. Customer service and support leaders should move now to build the case to remove NPS from...

Africa urgently needs 20m vaccine doses

Africa needs at least 20-million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six weeks to get second doses to all who received a first dose within the eight to 12-week interval between doses recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). A single dose of...

Discovering Africa’s top technology innovators

For the first time, future-shapers from all 55 African Union member states now have the chance to participate in the largest independent startup ecosystem-driven competition in the world with the opening of nominations for the Global Startup Awards (GSA) Africa. The...

Companies must reinvent their employee value proposition

To attract and retain talent, HR leaders must evolve their employee value proposition (EVP) to provide a more human deal that centres on the whole person, according to Gartner. Employers must redesign their EVP to deliver employees a life experience - not just an...

Resellers challenge SITA client devices tender

By Kathy Gibson - Disgruntled ICT resellers excluded from the latest transversal contract won a qualified victory during an informal protest at the State IT Agency (SITA) this morning. A group of resellers converged on the agency's Erasmuskloof offices to ask...

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