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...

AMD shines in latest Top500 list

AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators continue to be the solutions of choice for many of the most innovative, energy-efficient and fastest supercomputers in the world. AMD now powers 140 supercomputers on the latest Top500 list representing a 39%...

Teraco completes Durban data centre expansion

Teraco has announced the completion of the expansion project at its DB1 facility - the largest data centre in KwaZulu-Natal. As South Africa's third-largest city, with a population of over 3-million people, home to thriving digitally connected enterprises and a key...

Most projects bomb out in development

According to new research commissioned by Kaspersky, 92% of heads of innovations in enterprises in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region admit that their projects often fail before they are launched. Many of these innovations don't even make it past development...

How HR can increase leadership diversity

Despite deliberate effort to increase diversity, organisations continue to struggle with achieving diverse leadership benches, according to Gartner. To increase diversity in leadership, HR must ensure greater diversity in the leadership pipeline and successor talent...

Nokia to build first ever cellular network on the Moon

Nokia has been named by NASA as a partner to advance "Tipping Point" technologies for the Moon, deploying the first LTE/4G communications system in space and helping pave the way towards sustainable human presence on the lunar surface. Nokia Bell Labs' systems will be...

Get Workload Agile at Dell Technologies Forum 2020

Overnight the pace of digital transformation accelerated, and business accomplished in a few short months what normally would have taken years. Organisations who fast tracked their transformation outperformed their peers and are better prepared for what’s next. By...

Supercomputing study breaks ground for tree mapping, carbon research

Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre and international collaborators have demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering billions of trees in arid and semi-arid regions and laying the...

SA embarks on reconstruction, recovery journey

President Cyril Ramaphosa presented his plan for the reconstruction and recovery of the economy and country in a joint sitting of parliament and the National Council of Provinces. He sales the objectives of the plan are clear: * To create jobs, primarily through...

SA’s recovery plan in numbers

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the country's Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan. Here are the salient numbers. 2-million - people who lost their jobs in the second quarter of this year. 16.4% - the contraction of South Africa's economy when compared to...

Vote in the Channelwise Awards and win …

Voting is open for the Channelwise Awards - and there are prizes up for grabs for resellers who take part in the survey. Chris Westran is in the first lucky winner in the weekly draw, taking home R200.00 in Uber Eats vouchers. There are more Uber Eats vouchers to be...

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