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...

IBM advances geospatial AI to address climate challenges

IBM has announced new efforts that apply its geospatial AI technologies, including IBM's geospatial foundation model developed in collaboration with NASA, to climate efforts including analysis of urban heat islands in the United Arab Emirates (UAE); reforestation...

Cyber Week sales up from last year

Sales during Global online Cyber Week (21 November to 27 November) totaled $298-billion, up 6% year on year (YoY) from $281-billion in 2022. Growth was driven primarily by order volume, rather than inflation, signalling increased consumer demand for the first time in...

Study shows impact of violence

A study commissioned by BNP Paribas Group South Africa and its consumer finance arm RCS have explored the long lasting and far-reaching effects of societal violence on communities and business in South Africa. The research was inspired by the work of the Whitaker...

Intel and Argonne developers move toward Exascale 

Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating to build Aurora, an exascale computer system that will drive scientific breakthroughs, innovation and discovery. Aurora will be fueled by a future generation of Intel Xeon Scalable...

When it comes to clean energy, SA still has a long way to go

South Africa's energy sector remains one of the most coal-dependent and largest per capita polluters in the G20 despite being at greater risk of climate-related impacts. This is according to the latest report from Climate Transparency International that cautions G20...

Digital-first shopping expected this festive season

While the holiday shopping season will be different in many ways due to the Covid-19 pandemic, sustainability is still top of mind for many global consumers, according to the latest findings of a global IBM Institute for Business Value study. Fifty-four percent of...

Hybrid cloud steps up to meet business needs

Hybrid cloud is still the frontrunner as the ideal IT infrastructure model, according to 86% of respondents to Nutanix's third global Enterprice Cloud Index survey. The study measures enterprise progress with adopting private, hybrid and public clouds. This year,...

Public cloud spend continues growth trend

Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 18,4% in 2021 to total $304,9-billion, up from $257,5-billion in 2020, according to Gartner. "The pandemic validated cloud's value proposition," says Sid Nag, research vice-president at Gartner....

5G could be worth $31trn by 2030

The 5G consumer market could be worth $31-trillion by 2030 globally, according to the new "Harnessing the 5G Consumer Potential" report from Ericsson ConsumerLab. The report estimates that communications service providers (CSPs) could earn $3,7-trillion of that total...

Covid-19 plays havoc with gig economy

The pandemic has had a potentially-devastating effect on workers in the gig economy. This is according to "The Digital Hustle: Gig Worker Financial Lives Under pressure", a report from fintech investor Flourish that shwos the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on the...

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