As African CEOs embrace AI, ROI is still elusive

By Kathy Gibson - African companies are in the middle of learning and adopting artificial intelligence (AI), and adapting to the changes it brings. But they are also looking beyond adoption at how to measure value from their AI investments, says Ladi Asuni, partner...

Africa moves from AI ambition to action

AI has moved from potential to proven economic value and while ambition setting is near universal across economies, execution speed is the differentiator, according to Boston Consulting Group’s The AI Maturity Matrix 2026: AI Is Transforming How Economies Develop and...

The shocking reality facing jobseekers

Of the 867 706 people who registered looking for entry-level work in retail, restaurants and quick-service outlets over a 13-month period, just 6 566 were appointed - approximately one in every 132 – and between them, they sent nearly five million applications. The...

Spatial data maps where Super El Niño will hit SA hardest

The South African Weather Service gave the clearest sign yet on 1 September: this El Niño is on course to become the strongest event in living memory, with sea surface temperatures already tracking past 3°C above normal. A national outlook can't say which town or...

How to improve cloud resilience

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must deploy nine principles to maximise the resilience of cloud environments, according to Gartner. "The cloud is not magically resilient and software bugs, not physical failures, cause almost all cloud outages," says...

Nvidia Ethernet networking platform for AI coming soon

Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo will be the first to integrate Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet networking technologies for AI into their server lineups to help enterprise customers speed up generative AI workloads. Purpose-built for generative AI,...

AR/VR spend on growth trajectory

Worldwide spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is forecast to accelerate out of the pandemic, growing from just over $12.-billion this year to $72,8-billion in 2024. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Augmented and...

SA’s bargain hunters will hit the Black Friday sales

A massive 70% of South African adults will be shopping Black Friday and other festive sales days this year. A Finder.com survey of 1 524 South African adults reveals that 70%, which equates to around 27-million people, are planning to shop the festive sales this year...

Building skills top 2021 priority for HR

Building critical skills and competencies is the number one priority for HR leaders in 2021. Gartner's HR Priorities Survey, conducted from June through August 2020, found the other top HR priorities for 2021 are: organisational design and change management (46%);...

Xeon powers new Ruby supercomputer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will leverage Intel Xeon Scalable processors in Ruby, its latest high performance computing cluster. The Ruby system will be used for unclassified programmatic work in support of the National Nuclear Security...

Workers don’t want a return to pre-Covid offices

A massive three quarters of employees (78%) in South Africa want to rethink pre-Covid-19 ways of working, according to new research from Kaspersky. Instead of returning to business as usual, workers are now shaping a future of business on their terms, whether that's...

HPC takes on new role in Covid-19 fight

The Covid-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium, a public-private effort to make supercomputing power available to researchers working on projects related to Covid-19, has entered into a new phase of operation focused on helping researchers to identify...

Big changes for ICT in 2021

The information technology (IT) industry will morph in 2021, prompted by its response to the chaos of 2020 and affirmation that it is the central nervous system of our digital society. This is according to the IT Industry Outlook 2021 by CompTIA, the annual report...

Africa short on investment to meet SDGs

Africa is not getting the investment needed to help the world meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, new research from Standard Chartered has revealed. "The $50-Trillion Question" study investigates how some of the world's largest asset managers -...

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