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...

Crypto exchange VALR to partner with Visa

South Africa's largest crypto exchange by trading volume, VALR and Visa - the world's largest card network - have announced a strategic partnership for the issuance of Visa cards and delivery of other digital payment solutions. Visa and VALR will collaborate on...

Broadband drives economic, social development

Kathy Gibson reports - The deployment and adoption of broadband is critical to economic and social development. This is the word from Mathhew Reed, chief analyst: service provider at Omdia, who points to the World Bank's estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in...

Positive signs for businesswomen in Africa

While key areas such as advancing and retaining female employees have shown some progress over the past few years, there is more work to be done in other areas such as equal access to leadership roles. This is according to Mercer's When Women Thrive 2020, Sub-Saharan...

Delving into the draft Films and Publications Amendment Regulations

Draft regulations to the Films and Publications Amendment Act, which lay down the conditions for acquiring permits to self-classify content, were recently published. Webber Wentzel partner Carla Collett and candidate attorney Jodi Hardy took a deeper look at them....

ITU looking for innovative SMEs

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has opened applications for the ITU Digital World SME Virtual Awards 2020, which will take place online for the first time. The awards will help innovative SMEs hone pitching skills, showcase solutions, make key...

Embrace the future with digital transformation

Kathy Gibson reports - The future is not what it used to be. Change is all around us, and organisations need to ensure they digitalise their businesses or they will almost certainly get left behind by unfolding events. Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx, explains...

Covid-19 drives consumers to digital banking

Kathy Gibson reports - As the Covid-19 pandemic hit South African shores, there was an almost immediate drop in consumers' earning and a rise in retrenchments. That has only increased since April, says Mutsa Chironga, divisional executive for consumer banking at...

Phishing is more targeted and diversified under Covid-19

Phishing attacks are becoming increasingly more targeted, with a number of new tricks ranging from HR dismissal emails to attacks disguised as delivery notifications. As a result of such tendencies, security solutions have detected 2 023 501 phishing attacks in South...

When looking for a VPN, Chinese citizens search for Google

China has a long history of Internet censorship, and has its own tools to replace global services like Google and Facebook. The Chinese government also shields its citizens from the external world with the so-called Great Firewall, which helps control what citizens...

Next-generation IBM Power CPU launched

IBM has launched the next generation of its IBM Power central processing unit (CPU) family: IBM Power10. Designed to meet the needs of enterprise hybrid cloud computing, the IBM Power10 processor uses a design focused on energy efficiency and performance in a 7nm form...

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