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...

Crypto market to hit $25trn by 2030

The crypto market cap will rise to a staggering $25-trillion by 2030, according to Fininterest.com, which says the recent meltdown didn't signal a defeat - instead, it catalysed a resilient rally. "Everything looks positive for cryptocurrency, the pipeline is up and...

Stay alert this holiday shopping season

Visa has unveiled its Holiday Edition Threats Report which anticipates heightened scam activity during the holiday season across both card-present (CP) and card-not-present (CNP) transactions. The new report identifies popular fraud tactics expected between November...

Tech giants see double-digit growth

Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft revenue grew by 35%, 17% and 13% respectively during the first nine months of 2020. On the other hand, Alphabet's (Google) revenue increased by 9% and Apple's revenue was up by 4% during the same period. According to research data...

Digital skills key to tackling youth unemployment

So far this year, 3-million jobs have been lost. By the end of June, the youth labour force participation rate had dropped a staggering 12 percentage points to just below 16%. If job losses persist, we will have lost a decade's worth of job growth in just six months....

Channelwise Awards: make your voice heard

Voting in the Channelwise Awards has been extended to midnight on Wednesday 11 November. Resellers who vote in the online survey not only make their voices heard, but stand a chance of winning great prizes, There are weekly Uber Eats vouchers to be won, as well as a...

Supply chain leaders need to adapt

The coronavirus pandemic has put chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) under pressure to adapt and prepare their networks for an uncertain future, says Gartner. During the opening keynote of the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo, taking place virtually in the Americas...

Digital payments surge during lockdown

Many consumers shied away from cash and gravitated towards digital payment solutions during the national lockdown, according to the latest statistics from Standard Bank's card division. South Africans were asked to stay at home between April and September 2020 and...

Public cloud services boosted by pandemic

Due to the global pandemic and the shift to remote work, the migration to cloud computing has accelerated in 2020 and will see the global public cloud services market grow by 6,3% to $257,9-billion, according to research firm StockApps. The organisation adds that...

Threat actors get creative with new and old techniques

The activity of advanced persistent threat (APT) groups in the third quarter of 2020 indicated a curious trend: while many threat actors advance and continue to diversify their toolsets, at times resorting to extremely tailored and persistent tools, others...

The top five financial sector security challenges

Security measures within the financial sector have evolved dramatically, with regards to combining elements such as key codes, two factor authentication, voice ID, behavioural analysis, one-time passcodes, protective messaging, digital fingerprinting, and so on. But,...

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