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...

Gates Foundation to boost health and development R&D

A slate of new initiatives to support locally-led innovation has been announced by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners at the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting in Dakar. The investments come with an urgent call for countries to step up funding to...

Commercial display market size to top $90bn

The global commercial display market size is estimated to reach $90,05-billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 6,9% over the forecast period, according to the new report by Grand View Research. The global shipments of commercial-grade TVs are anticipated to exceed...

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...

Women in IT step up for the animals

Kathy Gibson reports – Women in the IT channel have so far raised close to R38 000.00 for the Sandton SPCA in the A-Plus Channelwise Women’s Day Challenge. The challenge was initiated to raise funds for the animals often overlooked in the tough times South African are...

10bn credentials are exposed online

South Africa has found itself among the top 10 countries with exposed online databases and credentials. China is the ultimate leader when it comes to unsecured databases and free-for-all credentials, research has found. The country has 3 794 exposed databases with 2...

Smartphones are too expensive for billions

Billions of people are unable to access the benefits of the internet because of the high cost of mobile devices, according to a new survey of smartphone prices in 70 low and middle-income countries. A massive 2,5-billion people live in countries where a smartphone...

Covid-19 drives changing workplaces

As businesses, governments, and cities are all in different phases of reopening, they are all in a constant state of evaluating what's safe, what's not and what the future will look like. The Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in remote work on an unprecedented scale, even...

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