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...

The real cost of unplanned downtime

According to the new 'Value of Reliability' survey from ABB, 72% of industrial businesses experience unplanned outages at least once a month, compared to 68% globally. This costs the typical South African business close to R724 000 per hour, compared to R2 350 000...

How to protect your company’s brand and reputation

When a brand becomes well known it can be exploited by cybercriminals - they can hide behind the brand name in order to promote some dubious quality goods and services, or they can prey on the brand's clients, partners, or employees. The latter - including the...

Unused smartphones could have R1bn value

South African consumers are sitting on a goldmine - their unused smartphones could be worth literally billions. Estelle Nagel, brand marketing manager at Gumtree, comments: "According to ICASA's State of the ICT Sector report, South Africa's smartphone penetration...

There’s an urgent need to address gender imbalances

Although South African women are making great strides within the workplace, corporate South Africa has more work to do to effectively transform boardrooms. The Covid-19 pandemic has further exposed deep-rooted inequalities in social, political and economic systems,...

Start-up launches HIV self-testing platform

Aviro Health, a start-up supported by the University of Pretoria's (UP) technology incubator and accelerator, TuksNovation, has launched a chatbot-based platform that offers people access to HIV self-testing resources, and the information they need to seek treatment...

KZN honoured for outstanding achievement

The winner of the 2020 Stella Clark Teachers Award is Hebert Muzi Gumbi, who teaches Accounting at Mathunjwa High School in Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal. Every year the University of Cape Town (UCT) honours a high school teacher who has been nominated by a former learner...

Closing the gender divide can save lives in emergencies

'Women, ICT and Emergency Telecommunications: Opportunities and Constraints', a new report from ITU and the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), highlights that equal access to information and communication technology (ICT) can save lives in emergencies,...

Call for diversity and inclusion ‘upgrade’

Only 23% of tech jobs are held by women in South Africa - out of 236 000 ICT (tech) roles, women occupy 56 000 of them, according to industry website WomenInTech.co.za "As a sector, we need to hire women to improve diversity in the workplace (and it's been proven that...

WHO ramps up Covid-19 support in African hotspots

The first members of a surge team of health experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) have arrived in Johannesburg to bolster the country's response to Covid-19. As the continent nears 1-million cases, WHO is expanding support to countries experiencing a...

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