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...

OpenAI execs move to Microsoft

OpenAI has let its CEO and board member Sam Altman go. He and chairman Greg Brockman will be joining Microsoft to head up a new AI division there. Announcing Altman's departure, a statement from OpenAI notes that Altman's departure follows a deliberative review...

AI set for major second wave, says Nvidia CEO

European startups will get a massive boost from a new generation of AI infrastructure - and it's coming just in time. This is according to Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who says: "We're now seeing a major second wave." Huang was speaking at Scaleway's ai-Pulse...

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...

Strategic predictions for the year ahead

Gartner has revealed its top strategic predictions for 2021 and beyond, exploring the role of technology in resetting, restarting, and responding to a world of uncertainty. "Technologies are being stressed to their limits, and conventional computing is hitting a...

Smooth digital transactions key to business survival

The key to whether or not companies go out of business hinges on providing consumers friction-right digital transactions. Nearly nine in 10 (88%) of South African, and 85% of global executives, surveyed as part of a new global and South African study by the Economist...

Top businesses are making digital a priority

Top performing enterprises are accelerating digital innovation and leveraging emerging technologies to come out stronger on the other side of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has arguably been the most significant "turn" in 2020, according to Gartner's annual global...

Consumer PC demand continues to boom

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) posted strong growth in 2020Q3 (11,7% YoY) and totaled 21-million units, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Consumer demand mirrored the...

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