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...

NASA successfully pings Indian Moon lander

For the first time at the Moon, a laser beam was transmitted and reflected between an orbiting NASA spacecraft and an Oreo-sized device on ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organisation) Vikram lander on the lunar surface. The successful experiment opens the door to a new...

Speech AI model helps preserve indigenous languages

Indigenous languages are under threat. Some 3 000 - three-quarters of the total - could disappear before the end of the century. That's one every two weeks, according to UNESCO. As part of a movement to protect such languages, New Zealand's Te Hiku Media, a...

New members join EOH board committees

EOH has announced the reconstitution of its board committee, effective from 2 February. This follows the appointment of Bharti Harie and Nosipho Molope as independent non-executive directors of the company on 1 January 2021, and the resignation of Moretlo Molefi and...

Customer engagement channels still won’t be unified by 2022

Through 2022, 50% of large organisations will have failed to unify engagement channels, resulting in a disjointed and siloed customer experience that lacks context, according to Gartner. To remedy this, Gartner's Digital Commerce for Marketing Leaders 2021 research...

15 years and counting to full number portability …

Three months after Cell C withdrew its High Court action that stalled the full implementation of number portability, and some 15 years after the launch of mobile number portability in 2006, South Africans still do not have full freedom of choice when it comes to...

TikTok fixes privacy issue discovered by Check Point Research

Check Point Research teams recently discovered a vulnerability within the TikTok mobile application's friend finder feature: a vulnerability that if exploited would have enabled an attacker to access users' profile details and the phone numbers associated with their...

SA developers believe AI/ML are the future of technology

Developers are most keen to work with the Python programming language, one of the prominent languages used for machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Thirty-eight percent of developers picked Python as their top choice in the new OfferZen "2021 State...

Workers will soon figure out how to trick AI tracking tools

Gartner predicts that, by 2023, more than one in 10 workers will seek to trick artificial intelligence (AI) systems used to measure employee behaviour and productivity. Such systems have seen a significant uptick in use in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. "Many...

More time online, less education, a problem for SA’s teens

Safer Internet Day is being celebrated in South Africa today (9 February), with the theme of bringing various stakeholders "Together For A Better Internet". While digital technology has been accelerated in many industries, like e-commerce and e-learning, some gaps are...

What kids searched for over the year-end break

A new global Kaspersky Safe Kids study has revealed how children expressed their interests during the 2020-2021 end of year holidays. Despite restrictions around the globe, kids managed to primarily amuse themselves with YouTube content (21%) and games (15%) -...

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Senior Business Analyst – Unit Trust – Western Cape Oakdale

Our client in Cape Town is looking for a Senior Business Analyst, who has at least 8 years' direct experience in Unit Trust and LISP (Discretionary and Life and Retirement Products) administration with in-depth knowledge of the products, legislative reporting and...

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Our client is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical Manager to lead their technical team and drive the successful delivery of IT projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record of...

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