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...

Leadership changes at Seacom

Seacom has announced a number of significant changes within its executive leadership team. Lucas Malamule Ndala has been appointed as the new group chief financial officer, succeeding Richard Schumacher, who takes on the role of chief wholesale and strategic alliances...

Quantum AI the next big thing in the AI evolution

Quantum artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as the next big advancement in AI development, using quantum mechanics to propel capabilities beyond current limits. With a notable 14% three-year CAGR increase in patent filings from 2020 to 2022, quantum AI has vast...

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...

Non-typical risks associated with the US election

With the US presidential election less than a month away, organisations are facing increasing levels of disruption from it, according to Gartner. To address these disruptions, Gartner analysts have identified five categories of non-typical risks for Assurance leaders...

Global smart speaker sales up 17%

Smart speaker sales in 2020 are estimated to grow by 17% to 170-million units. Comparatively, the growth rate in 2019 was a remarkable 70%, reaching a total of 146,9-million units, according to research data analysed and published by ComprarAcciones. The global smart...

Casinos lobby for online gambling

South African casino operators such as Tsogo Sun and Sun International are quietly pushing the government to pass legislation allowing online casinos to operate alongside the already legalised and regulated online sports betting industry. They are hoping that the hard...

Under pressure, workers battle to absorb change

The amount of change that the average employee can absorb without becoming fatigued in 2020 has been cut in half compared to 2019. Amid worries about the economy, job security, their health and the health of their loved ones, employees' capacity to take on change in...

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