A familiar face takes the reins at Tarsus

By Mark Davison - After months of speculation, Alviva Holdings – parent company of Tarsus Distribution – has announced a new, permanent CEO for one of South Africa’s oldest and leading distributors. Thibault Dousson, currently director of Lenovo’s Solution and...

European orbiter detects hints of volcanic activity on Mars

New evidence from gas seeping above volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping. Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases from inside the planet may be making their way up...

NASA experiments with drones for planetary landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)...

Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

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...

CFOs key in driving digital transformation

As digitalisation gathers traction, the role of the chief financial officer (CFO) is changing - indeed the role itself is being digitalised. This is the word from Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx, presenting the result of the Sage South Africa CFO 3.0 research....

IFIP set to release code of ethics

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is preparing to launch a code of ethics to serve as an exemplar for ethical behaviour in the ICT sector. This was announced by Moira de Roche, non-executive director of the Institute of Information...

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...

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