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...

New resources targeting tech offer hope for connectivity challenges

ITU's Partner2Connect Digital Coalition has identified new connectivity projects worth $7-billion worldwide in 2023, the UN tech agency announced at ​Partner2Connect's second annual meeting in Geneva. The new commitments increase to nearly $37-billion the value of...

Industrial printer shipments decline

Global shipments of industrial printers declined 2.4% year over year in the third quarter of 2023 (3Q23), according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Industrial Printer Tracker. However, the market contraction appears to be...

Server market revenue up 2,2%

Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market grew 2,2% year over year to $22,6-billion during the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, worldwide server shipments declined 0,2% year...

SA fails to ready youth for 4IR

South Africa is failing to expose and prepare young people for the evolving world of work. This is according to Tumelo Dichabe, business advisor at non-profit organisation Technoserve, who says: "Our youth are not exposed to the options that exist or that would result...

GLobal enterprise WLAN market rebounds

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments rose 12% year over year in the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20), according to results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker....

Young scientists to be awarded at Eskom Expo Virtual Awards

More than 500 of South Africa's finest young scientists will be honoured at virtual awards ceremony following successful participation in the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists 2020 online assessments. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown - which has led to...

New normal is here to stay – and so are cyber threats

Cyber-attacks are on the increase: over half of organisations are seeing more attacks and threats now than at the start of 2020. This is among the results of a new survey from Check Point Software Technologies, identifying organisations' key cyber-security priorities...

Digital transformation investments to top $6,8trn

The myriad business challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic have ensured that the global economy remains firmly on course for its digital destiny, with 65% of the world's GDP set to be digitalised by 2022 and direct digital transformation (DX) investments to...

Protect employees’ mental energy through times of change

The pace of change is wearing down finance teams, so finance leaders must navigate both big and small changes to protect employees' mental energy, according to Gartner. "When employees go through periods of heavy change, particularly as we are experiencing this year...

New cybersecurity threat predictions for 2021

In 2020, we saw many rapid changes on a global scale as organisations across the world attempted to adapt to a new normal caused by the pandemic. FortiGuard Labs unpacks some of the trends we can expect to see in the new year. Amid this shift, there were significant...

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