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...

Safety checklist for Black Friday online shopping

Vigilance is urged during this 2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday as AI-generated scams enhance the threat to this year's festive shoppers and it's revealed that seven in 10 British people worry that AI will make it easier for criminals to commit online fraud. But...

GenAI job postings surge in Q3

As companies swiftly develop medium- and long-term talent plans to adapt to the evolving work landscape driven by GenAI, there is an increase in the number of job postings related to GenAI, reveals the Job Analytics Database of GlobalData. Sherla Sriprada, business...

Large, deep Antarctic ozone hole persisting into November

Persistent cold temperatures and strong circumpolar winds, also known as the polar vortex, supported the formation of a large and deep Antarctic ozone hole that should persist into November, NOAA and NASA scientists reported today. The annual Antarctic ozone hole...

AI-driven virtual agents drive customer satisfaction and savings

As many organisations across the world look to digital tools to help address surges in customer inquiries due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a new IBM study reveals that 99% of respondents report an increase in customer satisfaction as a result of using AI-driven virtual...

Huawei void leaves opportunity for rivals in China

The smartphone market in mainland China declined 8% sequentially, and 15% annually, to 83-million units in the third quarter of 2020. Huawei, while still the leader, saw its volume decline in China for the first time, shipping only 34,2-million units during the...

Intel boosts AI portfolio with SigOpt acquisition

Intel has announced it is to acquire SigOpt, a San Francisco-based provider of a leading platform for the optimisation of artificial intelligence (AI) software models at scale. SigOpt's AI software technologies deliver productivity and performance gains across...

The big US election ‘What if?’

With the hotly contested US elections looming on tomorrow (3 November), Daniel Kibel, co-founder of CM Trading, considers the economic effects that may follow. "With Biden's narrow lead in current polls, this election could be anyone's race at this stage," Kibel says....

Samsung snatches back smartphone top spot

The worldwide smartphone market showed signs of improvement in the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20) with shipments declining just 1,3% year over year, according to preliminary data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. In total, 353,6-million smartphones...

Crypto marketplace Paxful partners with Uhuru Wallet

In striving towards its goal of financial inclusion for all, global crypto marketplace, Paxful has added Uhuru Wallet as a payment method to its platform. The partnership, it adds, will help encompass its vision of helping the underbanked around the world to gain...

Core banking systems set for change

A new generation of core banking systems will allow banks to respond to many big changes upcoming in the future of financial services. IDC Financial Insights Asia/Pacific's latest report titled Toward a New Generation of Core Banking Systems: The Capabilities to...

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