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...

Google to help with SA tourism promotion

Google has signed an agreement with Patricia Lille, minister of tourism, aimed at promoting South Africa as a prime tourist destination and providing training and support to the sector in digital training. The Ministry of Tourism is mandated to create conditions...

Business needs, GenAI will drive public cloud spend to $679bn in 2024

Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 20,4% to total $678,8-billion in 2024, up from $563,6-billion in 2023, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. "Cloud has become essentially indispensable," says Sid Nag, vice-president...

What’s holding back opportunities at the edge?

The ability of organisations to realize business value from data increasingly depends on their capacity to collect, process, store and analyse it at the edge. New research from Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, finds that as networks become increasingly...

Smart home market set for rebound

The smart home market in EMEA declined 7,2% in the second quarter of 2020, compared to the same period of the previous year, according to research by International Data Corporation (IDC). The market accounted for 20,287-million units between April and June. "Almost...

Modest growth for global PC shipments

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71,4-million units in the third quarter of 2020, a 3,6% increase from the third quarter of 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner. Consumer demand for PCs due to home entertainment and distance learning needs during the...

Dimensions that define the new employer-employee relationship

The relationship between employers and employees has shifted significantly due to the major transformation in the way people work, and how organisations are thinking about the future, according to Gartner. Today's new employment deal centers on positively impacting...

IoT expected to transform industrial security

The digitalisation of industrial infrastructure is underway and 55% of organisations globally are confident that the Internet of Things, as one of its key aspects, will change the state of security in industrial control systems (ICS). According to Kaspersky's recent...

Design key in making technology human-centric

Kathy Gibson is at Fujitsu ActivateNow – As the world of work changes, design thinking is driving a new way of developing solutions. Venanzio Arquilla, associate professor at POLI.Design University in Milan, says the role of design thinking is key in the move to...

Supercomputing pushes the boundaries of research

Kathy Gibson is at Fujitsu ActivateNow – High-performance computing is leading the fight against Covid-19. Research around the novel coronavirus is just one of the tasks being performed by the Fugaku supercomputer, jointly developed by Riken and Fujitsu and ranked as...

Fujitsu wants to be a trusted innovator

Kathy Gibson is at Fujitsu ActivateNow – Innovation is important to Fujitsu’s identity, and this has stood the company in good stead in 2020. Hidenori Furuta, chief technology officer, points out that Fujitsu recently celebrated its 85th anniversary. “During that...

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