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...

Intel Gaudi AI accelerator drives doubled performance on GPT-3

MLCommons has published results of the industry standard MLPerf training v3.1 benchmark for training AI models, with Intel submitting results for Intel Gaudi2 accelerators and 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel AMX)....

HIV triples the risk of cervical cancer

New research has found that women with HIV in South Africa face a three times higher risk of cervical cancer than those who do not live with HIV. Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, but women in sub-Saharan Africa are...

Concerns that supply chain officers need to address

While the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the structural and organisational weaknesses of many organizations chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) should address three important CEO concerns, according to Gartner. "When we conducted the annual Gartner CEO and Senior...

Active industrial espionage toolsets uncovered

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a series of highly targeted attacks against industrial holdings dating back to 2018 - far more rare in the world of advanced persistent threat (APT) actors than campaigns against diplomats and other high-profile political actors....

Pandemic highlights Africa’s need for infrastructure spend

The Covid-19 pandemic has sharpened Africa's already urgent need for added infrastructure spending. The African Development Bank estimates Africa's infrastructure financing needs at up to $170-billion a year by 2025, with an estimated financing gap of as much as...

Work from home: you can still get fired for drinking on the job

The pandemic has undoubtedly resulted in a new way of doing things. Working from home, for at least part of the work week, has become common place but with workers now in the comfort of their own homes, does this give them free reign to consume alcohol and drugs while...

Dust a red flag for SA’s food security outlook

The sources of South Africa’s dust emissions could pose a threat to food security. A new paper in the Aeolian Research journal titled “South Africa’s agricultural dust sources and events from MSG SEVIRI” points to windborne dust from large tracts of northern Free...

Data centre spend declines, but future prospects are good

End-user spending on global data centre infrastructure is projected to reach $200-billion in 2021, an increase of 6% from 2020, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. Despite a 10,3% decline in data center spending in 2020 due to restricted cash flow during...

Tech takes over in support of mental health

People want more from technology than collaboration tools; they also want it to support their mental health. This is among the findings of a new global study examining how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of the global workforce. It was released by...

Stronger networks will boost supply chains

Single connections between customer and supplier are often not resilient enough in crisis situations, so supply chain leaders must address that challenge by adding more partners and building an ecosystem, according to Gartner. "Major disruption, such as the Covid-19...

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