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...

Few companies have AI projects, despite urgency

Just 11% of organisations in South Africa are fully prepared to deploy and leverage artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technologies, according to Cisco’s inaugural AI Readiness Index. This is in line with global trends, with 14% of respondents globally considering...

NASA sends optical comms millions of kilometers into space

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 16-million kilometers away – about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth – to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in...

Data protection, security concerns come to the fore

Consumers are increasingly concerned about data sharing during the pandemic and the security challenges organisations face supporting employees and customers in our remote-first world. These are the conclusions from two Cisco research studies that also highlight...

Electric cars won’t take over the road for a while

Electric vehicles will make up as many as eight out of 10 new cars sold in 2050. But it will still be a long road before they dislodge gasoline as the predominant fuel in transportation. This is the word from IHS Markit vice-chairman Daniel Yergin, writing in his new...

Develop supply chain professionals to stay competitive

To remain competitive in an ever-changing environment, chief supply chain officers (CSCOS) must apply advanced strategies to develop and train supply chain talent, according to Gartner. "Despite the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, many companies are moving...

SK Hynix to buy Intel’s NAND business

SK hynix will acquire Intel's NAND memory and storage business for $9-billion. The transaction includes the NAND SSD business, the NAND component and wafer business, and the Dalian NAND memory manufacturing facility in China. Intel will retain its distinct Intel...

SA car market shows signs of recovery

The South African car market showed signs of resilience in Q3 2020, bouncing back from an all-time low Q2 to record month-on-month increases in the number of new and used cars financed in August and September, according to the latest TransUnion SA Vehicle Pricing...

CDC increases Liquid Telecom investment

UK-based development finance institution and impact investor CDC Group has announced an additional $40-million equity investment into Liquid Telecom. This marks CDC's second investment in the company, following a $180-million equity investment in 2018. CDC's...

JSE Investment Challenge winners announced

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Investment Challenge has announced the 2020 winners. In the 2020 edition of the Investment Challenge, thousands of high school leaners and university students showed resilience and delivered outstanding performance. The teams...

Two South Africans awarded IFIP Fellowship status

South African Professors Judith Bishop and Paula Kotzé have been awarded the prestigious International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Fellow Award. IFIP is an international body in the field of IT, and the Institute for Information Technology...

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