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...

Young scientists fly the SA flag at Turkey science fair

Two South African young scientists will present their scientific research at this year's Buca International Music, Science, Engineering Energy Fair (IMSEF) in Turkey. The Buca IMSEF is an international conference held in Izmir, Turkey annually from 20 to 25 November...

Nedbank Hackathon aims for an inclusive future for SMEs

Financial inclusion is the cornerstone of meaningful and sustainable small business growth in South Africa. For the country's SMEs to successfully expand, create employment opportunities, and further South Africa's economic development, tailored, digitally-advanced...

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...

Pandemic accelerates digital transformation

Dell Technologies released results from a global study that shows organisations are shifting their digital transformation programs into high gear and are on the path to accomplish in a few months what would normally have taken them years. The findings, updated...

Intensified scamming activities around iPhone launch

Several days ago, Apple held its annual event introducing the new iPhone 12 lineup. As year-to-year data shows, not only Apple users are interested in these events, but also scammers. During the first nine months of 2020, Kaspersky has seen that scammers are...

First Africa Migration Report commissioned

African migration in the 21st Century takes place mainly by land, not by sea. African migrants' destinations are overwhelmingly not to Europe or North America, but to each other's countries. Those are among the historic findings of the study, Africa Migration Report:...

Declining services revenue set to recover in 2021

Worldwide IT and business services revenue declined 1,9% year over year (in constant currency) during the first half of 2020 (1H20) according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Services Tracker. Derailed by the pandemic in the first...

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