As African CEOs embrace AI, ROI is still elusive

By Kathy Gibson - African companies are in the middle of learning and adopting artificial intelligence (AI), and adapting to the changes it brings. But they are also looking beyond adoption at how to measure value from their AI investments, says Ladi Asuni, partner...

Africa moves from AI ambition to action

AI has moved from potential to proven economic value and while ambition setting is near universal across economies, execution speed is the differentiator, according to Boston Consulting Group’s The AI Maturity Matrix 2026: AI Is Transforming How Economies Develop and...

The shocking reality facing jobseekers

Of the 867 706 people who registered looking for entry-level work in retail, restaurants and quick-service outlets over a 13-month period, just 6 566 were appointed - approximately one in every 132 – and between them, they sent nearly five million applications. The...

Spatial data maps where Super El Niño will hit SA hardest

The South African Weather Service gave the clearest sign yet on 1 September: this El Niño is on course to become the strongest event in living memory, with sea surface temperatures already tracking past 3°C above normal. A national outlook can't say which town or...

SA companies still lag in training employees

According to Kaspersky's Business Digitisation survey, only 28% of companies surveyed in South Africa organised training on cybersecurity for their employees. And 16% did not organise any IT-related training for their employees, even on basic IT functions. If an...

Growthpoint signs wind-hydro-solar PPA deal

Growthpoint Properties has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Etana Energy for 195GWh of renewable energy a year, representing 32% of its total current annual electricity consumption (612GWhs in FY23). In November 2023, South Africa's leading REIT,...

Strong rebound for economic transactions in February 2021

The lifting of lockdown restrictions in February 2021 gave the South African economy a much-needed boost after the dismal performance in January 2021, according to the latest BankservAfrica Economic Transaction Index (BETI). "Economic transactions in February...

One year on, what South Africans think about living with Covid-19

Although infection rates seem to be declining and vaccines are slowly being rolled out in the country, most South Africans fear the arrival of a third wave of Covid-19, further lockdowns, job losses and the social problems that will bring. A survey by gig technology...

Device sales set to improve, but not to 2019 levels

Global spending on IT devices such as PCs, tablets and mobile phones plunged by 8% year-on-year (YoY) to $653-billion in 2020. This figure is expected to recover to $705-billion in 2021, still $7-billion less than before the pandemic, according to data presented by...

Bans on threat intelligence sharing increase risk

Two-thirds (69% in META) of threat intelligence (TI) analysts are involved in professional communities, but 44% of all those working in IT and cybersecurity roles are not allowed to share threat intelligence artifacts discovered through those communities. This is...

Employers, workers don’t have the same view of future work

Digital technology has done much to help life carry on as near to normal as possible during the pandemic. Video conversations with customers and colleagues are now taken for granted, while cloud-based document-sharing apps allow ongoing co-operation and collaboration....

MTN grew subscribers during 2020

MTN increased its subscribers increased by 28,8 million to 279,6-million during the financial year ended 31 December 2020. The group has 280-million customers in 21 markets. During the year, group service revenue grew by 19,9%. EBITDA (before once-off items) grew by...

Financial firms use change management, upskilling to drive productivity

Financial institutions are spending, on average, 14% of annual operating costs on change management functions in order to drive greater productivity gains, a new PwC study has shown. According to PwC's report, "Productivity 2021 and beyond: Upskilling the workforce of...

More than 100m infections found on Windows devices

Devices with Windows operating systems were affected by over 111-million malware infections during 2020, according to data analysed by the Atlas VPN team. Out of all of the Windows malware threats detected last year, 83% or nearly 92,3-million were found on consumer...

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