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...

SAP debuts generative AI assistant Joule

SAP has announced Joule, a natural-language, generative AI copilot that has the potential to transform the way business runs. Joule will be embedded throughout SAP's cloud enterprise portfolio, delivering proactive and contextualized insights from across the breadth...

Steady growth for UC&C market

Worldwide revenues in the Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) market grew 6,9% YoY and 2,4% sequentially to $15,9- billion in the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Unified...

Global IT spend set for 7,3% decline in 2020

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3,5-trillion in 2020, a decline of 7,3% from 2019, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. While the global economy is expected to witness a ‘swoosh’ recovery, IT spending will experience more of a ‘swoop’ recovery....

Healthbot aids in meds delivery for high-risk patients

A University of Pretoria (UP) accelerator programme start-up, Aviro Health, has developed an automated chatbot app, Pocket Clinic for the Western Cape Department of Health which works via WhatsApp and confirms delivery of chronic medication to patients’ homes. Pocket...

Public cloud cybersecurity incidents hit SA firms

According to The State of Cloud Security 2020, a global survey from Sophos, six in 10 (60%) organisations from South Africa experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year – including ransomware (25%), other malware (28%), exposed data (28%), compromised...

Ransomware continues to evolve, targets more victims

Check Point Research’s Global Threat Index for June 2020 shows that the Phorpiex botnet has been delivering the Avaddon ransomware, a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) variant that emerged in early June, via malspam campaigns. This has led to it jumping 13 places to...

SA start-up competes in online meeting space

In the past three months, South African startup room.sh has emerged into the video conferencing tech space, growing to more than 100 000 video-calls a month. In 2018 the founding team received investment from local VC’s Knife Capital as SkillUp Tutors with the...

Beware URLs that redirect users to blacklisted pages

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered more than a thousand inactive domains that, when visited, redirect the visitors to unwanted URLs as a way to turn a profit. Many of these second-stage pages were detected as malicious. When companies stop paying for their domain,...

What will SA’s energy utilities of the future look like?

Over the lockdown period, utilities have stepped up – keeping hospitals running and laptops charged, writes Cameron Tandy, MD Accenture Resources in Africa. Energy has not been top of mind for consumers during the current pandemic, but in this new operating...

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