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...

Recycling sector ramps up to deal with e-waste

Electronic waste is a major challenge worldwide, particularly in South Africa where it is growing at three times the rate of growth of solid municipal waste. About 415 500 tonnes of e-waste is produced in the country annually, according to 2019 figures from the United...

Connected car market to reach $243,75bn

The global connected car market size is expected to reach $243,75-billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of 13,4% from 2023 to 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. Surging consumer demand, the constant need for connectivity, increased dependency on...

SA gets first-ever African Development Bank funding for Covid response

The board of directors of the African Development Bank has approved a loan of approximately R5-billion ($288 million) to the government of South Africa, as the country battles one of the largest Covid-19 caseloads in the world. South Africa confirmed its first case of...

A new perspective on the modern workplace

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we live and work. According to Cisco-commissioned research, the dramatic shift in the percentage of employees working from home created unexpected challenges, with the priority being to keep businesses moving forward. The...

DaaS the winner as remote work takes off

The worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow 6,3% in 2020 to total $257,9-billion, up from $242,7-billion in 2019, according to Gartner. Desktop as a service (DaaS) is expected to have the most significant growth in 2020, increasing 95,4% to...

Lazarus targets Windows, Linux, MacOS

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a series of attacks which use an advanced malware framework, called MATA, to target Windows, Linux and MacOS operating systems. In use since spring 2018, the framework is linked to Lazarus, a well-known and prolific North Korean...

Pent-up demand pushes EMEA PC market to strongest gains since 1998

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) surged YoY in 2020Q2 (+26,4% YoY) and totaled 20,7-million units, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). As supply and logistic bottlenecks eased up,...

Pandemic drives up cyber-attacks

Criminal, political and nation-state threat actors have exploited the Covid-19 pandemic and related themes to target organisations across all sectors, including governments, industry, healthcare, service providers, critical infrastructure and consumers. According to...

Enterprise application market sees 7,5% increase

Fueled by ongoing digital transformation investment, a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that worldwide revenue in the enterprise applications market grew 7,5% year over year in 2019 to $224,6-billion. The top five enterprise applications...

DOH launches Covid tracing system

The Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize, last week announced the launch of CovidConnect, contact tracing technology that aims to fast-track the containment of Covid-19. BCX partnered with the Department of Health (DOH) in developing and deploying CovidConnect. "We are...

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