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...

This is what Saffers searched for in 2023

Google has released the South African results of its 2023 Year In Search trends, revealing the terms, people, topics, questions and events that captured the attention of the public in the past 12 months. This years’ results  show a heightened interest in celebrities,...

VMware by Broadcom simplifies lineup, switches to subscriptions

VMware by Broadcom announced a simplified product portfolio, while transitioning from a perpetual to a subscription model. Krish Prasad, senior vice-president and GM of the VMware Cloud Foundation Division, says that, in terms of product simplification, the VMware...

Black Friday highlights social issues

In 2020 Black Friday was always going to be skewed toward shoppers who had access to the internet and mobile devices. This raises several questions about equality of opportunities for all South Africans in a digital future, but it also raised the risk levels for...

The rising cost of insider attacks

Most cybersecurity landscape data is focused on outsider attacks. However, recent findings reveal that insider threats are becoming more common - and are much more elusive since standard security practices do not work. According to data analyzed by Atlas VPN, 65% of...

Gate Foundation adds $250m to the Covid fight

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation it will commit an additional $250-million to support the research, development, and equitable delivery of lifesaving tools in the global effort against Covid-19. Marking the end of a year focused on the scientific breakthroughs...

DX investments set to top $6,8tn

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...

AWM industry could change the world

Currently controlling more than $110-trillion (more than 20 times the US federal budget), the power the asset and wealth management (AWM) industry has in shaping the future is unparalleled. With global assets under management projected to grow by up to 5,6% per annum...

Pandemic boosts global cloud services

Recent years have witnessed a surge in the use of cloud computing with billions of private and business users taking advantage of the on-demand technology. However, with people spending more time indoors and online, the Covid-19 pandemic has fuelled the growth of the...

Covid costs European consumer electronics sector $14bn

The Covid-19 crisis has triggered a huge shift in consumer spending which directly impacted the consumer electronics industry. With reduced incomes in times of economic turmoil, consumers choose to buy necessities such as groceries and household goods and avoid...

Highlights of 5G in 2020

With profitable business models and killer applications starting to emerge, 5G is expected to be one of the largest and fastest-growing future markets, says IDTechEx. By the end of 2020, 125 operators in 52 countries/territories have launched commercial 5G services...

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