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 Arc A580 graphics available worldwide

Intel Arc A580 desktop graphics is immediately available worldwide from partners. The new product fills the middle of the Intel Arc discrete graphics product stack for gamers and creators, delivering advanced gaming performance at 1080p high settings on popular modern...

Another decline for worldwide PC shipments

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 64,3-million units in the third quarter of 2023, a 9% decrease from the third quarter of 2022, according to preliminary results by Gartner. While the third quarter's results mark the eighth consecutive quarter of decline for the global...

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...

Stakeholders commit to responsible AI

South African businesses, academia, civil societies, human rights activists, labour movements, non-profit organisations, SMMEs, legal fraternity, women and youth organisations have signed an Expression of Interest (EoI). The EoI provides a platform for cooperation and...

Google, Amazon emerge as top phishing brands

It's estimated that phishing is the starting point of over 90% of all attempted cyber-attacks, and Verizon's 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report shows that nearly one-third (32%) of actual data breaches involved phishing activity. What's more, phishing was present...

Vehicle hijacking levels are up

Tracker's vehicle crime statistics for the year July 2019 to June 2020 indicate that hijacking is on the rise and remained prevalent during the lockdown period even with a significant drop in vehicle crime. Hijacking can also happen at any time of the day, any day of...

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