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...

African broadband adoption slips

Kathy Gibson reports - Although broadband adoption in Africa is increasing quickly, the continent is still some way off from achieving many of its connectivity goals. Martin Creaner, director-general of the World Broadband Association, says there is general consensus...

Privacy risks in using ChatGPT for businesses

Today, many people rely on neural network-based language models like ChatGPT for their jobs - a Kaspersky survey in Russia revealed that 11% of respondents have utilised chatbots, with nearly 30% believing in their potential to replace jobs in the future; other...

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...

Retailers pick Google Cloud over AWS, Azure

Google Cloud ranks as the number one cloud service provider to the retail sector, outpacing overall market leader AWS and second-placed Microsoft Azure. This is according to the latest research from Canalys' Cloud Channels Analysis service, which assessed the top...

SA top of the African charts for quality of digital life

South Africa ranks 59th in the world for its quality of digital life, but it came in top for Africa. This is according to Surfshark's DQL Index 2020, which founds that South Africa surpasses Kenya, Nigeria, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco in terms of its digital quality...

Yellow Pages partners with fintech to support SMEs

With the lockdown having impacted South African businesses, Yellow Pages has teamed up with Fundrr to offer loans for telecommunications and market support to businesses wanting to grow. Yellow Pages, which is a division of Telkom Business, provides support packages...

A clear virtual sales strategy is vital

It is critical for sales enablement leaders to implement a long-term virtual selling strategy as more field sales roles move to virtual sales positions, according to Gartner. "While many chief sales officers (CSOs) are not yet fully committed, the uncertain nature of...

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