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...

Intel helps power a more resilient grid

Intel has announced that its technology is helping power the Edge for Smart Secondary Substations (E4S) Alliance's new solution to modernise the energy grid. The E4S solution disrupts the existing system, helping it move from a proprietary, closed-hardware...

Saffers listened to more local songs this year

Spotify Wrapped 2023 demonstrates that South Africans are consuming more local songs compared to 2022. Spotify Wrapped is the streaming company's thorough look into the music and podcasts that defined the year for South African users. Spotify Wrapped 2023 shows that...

Major appliances, click-and-mortar the major trends for Black Friday

Click-and-mortar retailers and domestic appliances are expected to be the big winners over the crucial November retail promotional season as consumers open their wallets and retailers pull out all the stops for Black Friday. This year, Black Friday will be like no...

Drone market could reach $22bn by 2041

IDTechEx's recent market research report on drones and their associated technologies predicts the drone market to be over $22-billion by 2041. The report "Drone Market and Industries 2021-2041" covers the key areas of the drone environment, such as the hardware,...

Covid-19 dramatically accelerates digital risk

Covid-19 has reorganised the risk landscape for chief audit executives (CAEs), as CAEs have listed IT governance as the top risk for 2021. According to Gartner analysts, the pandemic is giving rise to new sets of risks while exacerbating long-standing vulnerabilities....

CIOs the catalysts of change in a digital world

CIOs have a crucial and multi-faceted role to play in helping their organisations transform for the digital age. This is according to Sandra La Bella, winner of the Visionary CIO title at the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA)...

Commonwealth private sector targets green, digital recovery

Trade ministers and business leaders from across the Commonwealth will gather virtually to examine how they can work together to spur a digitally-inclusive and green recovery in the face of devastating economic impacts linked to Covid-19. The Commonwealth Secretariat,...

Amazon hits 5bn monthly visitors

Data presented by Buy Shares indicates that e-commerce platform Amazon.com was the fifth most visited website globally in September 2020, attracting 5,2-billion visitors. The research ranked the top 10 most visited websites in September, and Google.com emerged top...

Universities urge G20 leaders to prioritise net zero emissions

An international coalition of leading climate research universities will issue its first declaration ahead of the G20 Summit on 21 and 22 November 2020. The International Universities Climate Alliance member universities, including the University of Cape Town (UCT),...

Calls to ease licensing department backlogs

The National Automobile Dealers' Association (NADA) has penned an open letter from the to Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula. Dear Minister Mbalula Extensive administrative delays in document turnaround times and vital operational systems are drastically impacting...

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