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...

Subscription-based streaming to become a $100bn industry

The subscription-based streaming industry has blown up in recent years, completely changing how people consume media. In just five years, the number of people using these services has almost doubled and hit 1,3-billion, helping the market to gross over $95-billion in...

Overcome challenges to ensure responsible, ethical AI solutions

Generative AI has raised new challenges related to ‘Responsible AI’, catapulting concerns into the headlines and forcing enterprises to revisit their AI policies at a time when they investigate new potential applications. Enterprises need to ensure that AI solutions...

And the top malware threat in December was …

The Emotet trojan has returned to first place in Check Point Research's latest Global Three Index for December 2020, impacting 7% of organisations globall. This follows a spam campaign which targeted more than 100 000 users per day during the holiday season. In...

How events in the Capitol affect the US economy

Democrats have completed a sweep of Congress following the double victory in the state of Georgia's run-off election. Keith Wade, Schroders' chief economist, discusses what this means for the US economy in the near-term. The disturbing scenes of protestors storming...

MacBook hit 15,5m shipments in 2020

The global demand for PCs and laptops increased significantly in 2020, with millions of people working from home and practicing distance learning amid the Covid-19 lockdown. As one of the leading brands on the market, Apple MacBook has witnessed a significant jump in...

Water management vital to the success of smart cities

Water is the elephant in the room, with cities increasingly and massively dependent on water technology as sea levels rise and for other reasons. The IDTechEx report, "Smart Cities Market 2021-2041: Energy, Food, Water, Materials, Transportation Forecasts", points out...

App development security the most wanted security skill in 2021

The year 2020 revealed that businesses still struggle when it comes to cybersecurity. Not only are organisations dealing with cybersecurity workforce shortage, which is estimated to be at 3,12-million, but existing security specialists have to constantly reinvent...

AI joins the fight against locusts in Africa

A free tool will help farmers and pastoralists across Africa to predict and control locust behaviour.. Kuzi - the Swahili name for the wattled starling, a bird renowned for eating locusts - is an AI-powered tool that generates a real-time heatmap of locusts across...

Teens dominate TikTok user base

The TikTok platform is especially popular among the younger generation, particularly among teenagers. According to data presented by Stock Apps, over 30% of US-based Tiktok users are in their teens, which is the biggest among all age groups. More data indicates that...

External OEM storage market in Q3 decline

Global market revenue for enterprise external OEM storage systems declined 1,4% year over year to nearly $6,8-billion during the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker,...

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