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...

Despite barriers, AI deployments are set to accelerate

New research commissioned by IBM has found that about 42% of enterprise-scale organisations (over 1 000 employees) surveyed have AI actively in use in their businesses. Early adopters are leading the way, with 59% of responding enterprises already working with AI...

Global real GDP growth of 2,3% forecast for 2024

Weaker annual real GDP growth rates are forecast across the largest regions in 2024 compared to 2023, according to a new S&P Global Market Intelligence report. The newly published Top-10 Economic Predictions for 2024 forecasts global real GDP will expand at 2,3%...

2020 climate events show how excess heat is expressed

By most accounts, 2020 has been a rough year for the planet. It was the warmest year on record, just barely exceeding the record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree according to NASA’s analysis. Massive wildfires scorched Australia, Siberia, and the United...

Stigma drives gamers to conceal their activities

One-third (33%) of gamers in South Africa are ashamed of how much they game and hide it from their parents. This is according to global research commissioned by Kaspersky and conducted by Savanta in November last year, which looks at gaming in 2020 across 17 countries...

2020 saw record growth for Europe’s channel

The European IT channel ended an extraordinary year on a high, with distribution sales hitting a record €26,3-billion and year-on-year growth of 10,2% for Q4, according to market research group Context. The figures are in keeping with a year in which the channel...

Microsoft still the most-imitated brand for phishing

In the last quarter of 2020, Microsoft was again the brand most frequently targeted by cybercriminals, as it was in Q3 2020. According to Check Point Research's Brand Phishing Report for Q4 2020, 43% of all brand phishing attempts related to the technology giant (up...

Most companies have gaps in basic network management

A significant portion of companies have basic network management deficiencies, including a lack of network visibility, network device configuration backups, proactive network planning, and up-to-date documentation. These are among the findings from Auvik Networks' new...

Nvidia debuts new gaming devices and other news from CES

Nvidia launched a slew of new products at the first virtual CES show this week. In gaming, the company debuted the affordable new RTX 3060 GPU and detailing the arrival of more than 70 30-series GPUs for gamers and creatives. The 70 new laptops will feature GeForce...

Pent-up demand set to drive 3D printer sales in 2021

As the west emerged from early lockdowns and the east continued to recover from the initial months of the pandemic, there were rebounds in the Professional, Design and Industrial 3D printer segments with shipments up +9%, +16% and +22% respectively between Q2 and Q3...

Professionally monitored alarm systems grow worldwide

The number of professionally monitored alarm systems in Europe is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3,9% from 16,5-million in 2019 to 20-million in 2024. In North America, the number of monitored alarm systems is forecasted to grow at a CAGR...

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HP Developer (Hybrid) – Western Cape Cape Town

ENVIRONMENT:A Medical Records Hosting concern seeks the coding expertise of a PHP Developer whose core role will be to lead a team of Devs and develop robust software while maintaining a high standard of security and reliability. You will also work and plan Epics with...

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