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...

Defensive AI safeguards against emerging cyberthreats

Google's recent announcement of an artificial intelligence (AI) Cyber Defence Initiative to enhance global cybersecurity underscores the importance of defending against increasingly sophisticated and pervasive cyberthreats, says GlobalData. The analyst adds that AI is...

Zoom downloads decline dramatically post-pandemic

According to Stocklytics.com, Zoom mobile app downloads have plunged by 89% between Q2 2020 and Q4 2023, with a particularly stark drop in the Asia-Pacific region - one of Zoom's key markets - from 113,45-million in Q2 2020 to approximately 18,3-million in the last...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has a new mission

Having proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, the Ingenuity experiment will soon embark on a new operations demonstration phase, exploring how aerial scouting and other functions could benefit future exploration of Mars and other worlds....

Digital transformation, IT automation drive hyperautomation

The worldwide market for technology that enables hyperautomation will reach $596,6-billion in 2022, according to a new forecast from Gartner. This is up from $481,6-billion in 2020 and a projected $532,4-billion this year. "Hyperautomation has shifted from an option...

Standard Bank launches services status page

Standard Bank customers have had to deal with protracted disruptions over the last two weeks, including on two Fridays over month-end. Now, Standard Bank has launched a services status page to keep customers up to date about the status of banking services. The free...

APT actors are turning to exploits to launch attacks

Over the past three months, the major waves of advanced persistent threat activity have been driven by supply chain attacks and zero-day exploits. A compromise in SolarWind's Orion IT software for monitoring IT infrastructures led to a custom backdoor being installed...

Lessons from the pandemic from a Nobel laureate

With a pandemic underway, the daunting outlook of economic contraction on the horizon and rampant climate change, the world is facing hard times. What can economics teach us about recovery, asks Professor Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel laureate and co-founder of the Abdul...

Ethereum expected to hit new highs

The Ethereum price is likely to hit $5 000 over the next seven days as the cryptocurrency reaches new all-time highs. This is the bullish prediction from Nigel Green, chief executive and founder of deVere Group, as Ether - the token transacted on the Ethereum...

New chairman, first female vice-chair for WASPA

South Africa's Wireless Application Service Providers' Association (WASPA) has elected its new office bearers for 2021, including a new chairperson. Anthony Ekerold, a founding Director of BDE Attorneys and one of the longest standing board members, will take over as...

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