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...

AI chip revenues on track to surpass $126bn by 2027

Artificial intelligence (AI) chip market revenues will exceed $126-billion by 2027, according to analysis from Stocklytics.com. As of 2022, the AI chip market revenues raked in nearly $45-billion and $54-billion in 2023, emphasising the fast-paced expansion rate of...

SASE market to skyrocket to over $16bn by 2028

The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market is poised for exponential growth, forecasted to surge to over $16-billion by 2028, according to a new forecast report from Dell'Oro Group. This represents a 12% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) fueled by the rising demand...

Anton Herbst appointed as Tarsus Technology Group CEO

Tarsus Technology Group (TTG) has appointed TTG veteran Anton Herbst as its CEO with effect from 1 March 2021. Herbst replaces Miles Crisp, who resigned earlier this month to pursue new interests. Herbst started his his career at MB Technologies (which later became...

Now Canada seeks news payments from Facebook

Canada is following Australia's example in seeking to make Facebook pay for news content. The country is unfazed by the possibility that Facebook would retaliate by shutting down news feeds, as it did this week in Australia and New Zealand. Steven Guilbeault, the...

SA’s burden of child malnutrition still unacceptably high

The nutritional status of South Africa's children is deteriorating. One in four children under the age of five are stunted, a sign of chronic undernutrition that has remained stubbornly unchanged for 20 years. Over the same period, South Africa has seen a steady...

Perseverance rover lands safely on Mars

The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 472-million kilometres. Packed with groundbreaking technology, the Mars 2020 mission launched on 30 July 2020, from Cape Canaveral Space...

Two-thirds of electricity meters in North America are now smart

The penetration of smart electricity meters in North America reached 68% in 2020, according to a Berg Insight report. Overall, the installed base of smart electricity meters will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 5.7 percent during 2019-2025 to reach a total of...

Employers will encourage vaccination, but not require it

Most organisations will encourage their employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 before returning to the workplace, but a very small proportion (8%) want to make it a requirement. A survey of HR, real estate, legal, compliance and privacy leaders in December 2020...

Covid exposes gender inequality beyond pay gap

Women have been hardest hit by the impact of Covid-19 lockdowns, according to the National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM), a study tracking income, employment and welfare in South Africa. "Although survival and saving jobs is...

Facebook blocks news in Australia, New Zealand

Facebook has blocked news sites and sharing in Australia and New Zealand as those countries push to make platforms pay for news content. By William Easton, MD of Facebook Australia & New Zealand, says the move is in response to Australia's proposed new Media...

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Technical Support Specialist (Networks) – Gauteng Pretoria

Join our dynamic iOCO Team as a Technical Support Specialist for the NOC environment in Infrastructure Services; where they meet the connectivity demands of their clients with iOCO's software-defined networks, exceptional monitoring capabilities, and scalable...

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Intermediate Java DeveloperJOB DESCRIPTION Support existing and develop new functionality and components.Understand existing product and domain elements and work with business analysts to refine and implement new requirements.Refactor and improve the code to keep the...

Intermediate Data Scientist

The successful applicant will join a team of specialist to work together with the current internal capacity at the client on various projects.JOB DESCRIPTION Acquire, extract, process and synthesise datasets from SARS's systems.Meeting specified data standards...

Data Manager (Wits VIDA)

Main purpose of the job:Coordinate, manage, and maintain research study databases to ensure accurate data for analysisLocation:Wits Vaccines & Infectious Diseases Analytics (VIDA) Research Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto - JohannesburgKey...

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Intermediate Java Developer – Western Cape Cape Town

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Intermediate Data Scientist – Gauteng Pretoria

The successful applicant will join a team of specialist to work together with the current internal capacity at the client on various projects.JOB DESCRIPTION Acquire, extract, process and synthesise datasets from SARS's systems.Meeting specified data standards...

Data Manager (Wits VIDA) – Gauteng Moletsane

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