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...

Weather-related hazards risk R20bn of CT transport infrastructure

Severe weather events can wreak havoc in urban environments, and the City of Cape Town (CoCT) is no exception. In a paper publicshed in the Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering, the University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers quantified the...

‘Protracted winter’ forecast for quantum computing

Quantum computing is emerging from the realm of theory into practical applications and has the potential to be revolutionary in cryptography, drug development, financial modeling and much more - and has attracted numerous big tech players such as Alphabet, IBM, Intel,...

Jasco posts six-month operating profit

Jasco Electronics has posted an operating profit increase of 132% for the six months ended 31 December 2020. Cash generated from operations increased by 218%, earnings per share increased by 168% and headline earnings per share were up by 70%. During the period, the...

Responsible practices key to AI success

Kathy Gibson reports – Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot function effectively without the trust of all an organisation’s stakeholders - customers, vendors, employees and staff. And, while there are any number of high-level principles expounded around AI, there is a...

Solar installations to hit record 180GW in 2021

Solar PV installations are expected to post 27% year-on-year growth in 2021 amid strong demand despite increased module prices, long lead times and rising freight costs, according to a new report from IHS Markit. This comes at a time when the solar supply chain is...

Threats against industrial control systems on the rise

While the percentage of industrial control systems (ICS) computers on which malicious objects were blocked had declined since the second half of 2019, this number again started to rise in the second half of 2020. Globally, the percentage of attacked ICS computers in...

ISPA Inspires bursary awarded

South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has awarded its inaugural ISPA Inspires bursary to Fabian Brijlal from Phoenix, KwaZulu-Natal and Jordy Kafwe Kioni from Parklands, Western Cape. A total of 288 applications were received for ISPA's...

Institutional investors could hike bitcoin price

A bitcoin price drop will trigger a surge in institutional investment, driving the price up again. This is the word from Nigel Green, chief executive and founder of deVere Group, after bitcoin - up nearly 500% since the rally started in October - has pulled back after...

AR, VR and MR markets set to quadruple

In just a few years, the augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) became one of the biggest tech trends with millions of users in both the consumer and business sector. From video games to supporting critical business functions, AR and VR apps have found their...

Gaming PC and monitor market hits new record high

Throughout 2020, the global pandemic created new opportunities for many consumer technologies and gaming PCs and monitors have arguably been among the greatest beneficiaries. As consumers spent more hours at home and fewer dollars outside, shipments of gaming PCs and...

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