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...

Widespread autonomous vehicle adoption still a decade away

A world of self-driving vehicles and mobility-on-demand is likely to exist eventually, but for the next decade, widespread implementation of autonomous technology will not be realised, according to a new forecast from S&P Global Mobility. The report reflects...

Covid-19 antiviral drug linked to SARS-CoV-2 mutations

Researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT) were part of a collaboration that has uncovered a link between an antiviral drug for COVID-19 infections called molnupiravir and a pattern of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Other researchers who formed part of the...

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...

Cash makes a comeback during lockdown

A detailed look into South Africans transaction habits from cash and card spend over the lockdown period has revealed that the value of ATM withdrawals is on the rise while credit cards are being stored away. "As a service to the South African economy and decision...

WHO calls for Africa to have equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Africa joined immunisation experts in urging the international community and countries in Africa to take concrete actions to ensure equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, as researchers around the world race to find effective...

Led by notebooks, PC shipments come back strongly

Worldwide, PC shipments have recovered and are once again in positive territory. Three global research houses released their latest global PC market figures yesterday, detailing growth rates from 2% to 11% depending on research criteria. According to Gartner,...

Single address dataset needed in Covid fight

A team from the University of Pretoria (UP) has proposed a way forward for establishing and coordinating a single address dataset for Gauteng, which could be adopted by the rest of the country. One address dataset is needed now more than ever, as addresses are...

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