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...

Sandile Dube to leave HPE

Sandile Dube is to leave HP Enterprise (HPE) South Africa, having led the organisation for the last three years. It is believed that President Ntuli, the former country manager of HPE South Africa, will return from a UK-based position to take up the reins. Prior to...

Economic evaluation crucial for NHI success

The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Professor Edina Sinanovic - who has done numerous cost-effectiveness studies on alternative, preventative and diagnostic treatment and healthcare interventions - has highlighted the importance of economic evaluation in ensuring the...

New standards will boost IoT functionality

Enabling medical equipment to accurately record the time of diagnostic readings, making it easier to locate connected devices and speeding up the time it takes to develop new apps are just some of the new features to be unveiled as part of the fourth set of oneM2M's...

New appetite for used IT equipment

There is a new willingness by corporates to consider refurbished devices and consumers are also becoming more open to buying used electronics. This is largely due to delayed imports and OEMs not being able to produce and ship new electronics. Consumers are fast...

Monitor demand strong as supply begins to recover

Sales of monitors through distributors in Western Europe (WE) grew +14% year-on-year in the part of the second quarter of 2020 up to the first three weeks of June, according to the latest data published by IT market intelligence company Context. "Strong consumer...

Brazilian banking malware goes global

Brazilian cybercriminals, long regarded as some of the most creative malware creators, have begun to take their original malicious programs outside the country. According to Kaspersky researchers, four advanced banking families - Guildma, Javali, Melcoz and...

Covid-19 response doesn’t bode well for NHI

South Africa's government-imposed Covid-19 lockdown was supposedly instituted to buy the government time to manage the spread of the virus, and to allow the public healthcare sector to prepare its own facilities adequately for an increase in Covid-19 cases. By Chris...

Women bear the brunt of Covid-19 crisis

Melinda Gates has launched a paper exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic has exploited pre-existing inequalities and drastically impacted women's lives and livelihoods. In the paper, titled "The Pandemic's Toll on Women and Girls," Gates makes the case that to recover...

Economy shows signs of being on the long road to recovery

The BankservAfrica Economic Transaction Index (BETI) for June 2020 showed the biggest one-month bounce-back on record, providing the first strongest indication of an economic recovery since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown. However, the organisation cautions that...

Counterfeit Cisco devices open backdoors into organisations’ systems

Hardware security specialists with cyber security provider F-Secure have published a report detailing their investigation into a pair of counterfeit network switches. The investigation, which concluded that the counterfeits were designed to bypass processes that...

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IT Technician at GIBB – Western Cape Cape Town

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