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...

Half of tech worker training goes to waste

New research from Skillable reveals that, while tech workers want to learn and organisations are spending thousands of dollars per employee on learning technology, it is not translating into improved on-the-job performance for four out of 10 IT employees. Inadequate...

Expect more aggressive cyber-attacks in 2021

2021 will bring aggressive cybercrime activity as criminals pivot their attacks from data encryption to data exfiltration. Data exfiltration is a form of a security breach that occurs when an individual's or company's data is copied, transferred, or retrieved from a...

Embedded car OEM telematics subscribers to reach 317m by 2025

The number of telematics service subscribers using embedded systems will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20,7% from 102,8-million subscribers at the end of 2019 to 317,2-million subscribers at the end of 2025, according to research from Berg Insight....

Covid hits Uber’s revenue

Covid-19 disrupted many industries that were flourishing prior to the difficult days of 2020. One of the biggest global brands that was undoubtedly hit hard by the pandemic was Uber. According to data presented by Stock Apps, the ride-sharing app's quarterly net...

Determination, sensitivity key characteristics for IT hires in 2021

A massive 70% of hiring processes of new CIOs rank individual determination and sensitivity as two critical personal characteristics in 2021, according to Gartner. As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to shift the landscape for how global CIOs manage, collaborate and...

US bars Chinese payment apps

China has hit back at the US's barring of a number of Chinese apps, including Alipay and Tencent's offerings. The China Foreign Ministry has commented that the country will take necessary steps to safeguard the legitimate rights of companies. Yesterday, US president...

Disclosing a security breach results in less damage

There is a correlation between the way a data breach is disclosed and the total financial losses an organisation experiences following a cybersecurity incident. According to a new Kaspersky report, 'How businesses can minimise the cost of a data breach', enterprises...

Computer modelling keeps eagles safe from wind turbines

The rapid uptake of wind energy globally offers hope of a transition towards sustainable renewable energy but it can also present a real threat to soaring birds of prey. A new tool offers hope of a win-win solution that allows developers to rapidly identify the best...

Data protection as a service pushes storage appliance sales down

Increased use of data protection as a service and economic constraints caused by the pandemic have affected the EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market, which declined 4,5% in value year on year to $310,9-million in the third quarter of 2020, according to...

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