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...

More Bitcoin addresses move into profit

In just two months, the world`s largest and most expensive crypto, Bitcoin, has lost nearly 15% of its value. After reaching this year`s high of nearly $31 500 on 15 July, Bitcoin`s price dropped to $29 000 in the following weeks. It continued struggling for direction...

This is when and how the next mass extinction is likely to occur …

A new study shows that unprecedented heat is likely to lead to the next mass extinction since the dinosaurs died out, eliminating nearly all mammals in about 250-million years time. The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by the University of Bristol,...

Remote work makes network visibility critical

IT teams critically require better visibility into the network. This is driven by a number of factors, including tremendous disruption from the Covid-19 pandemic, relentless technological advances, remote working reaching an all-time high and the expanding security...

New Joker variant hits Google Play with an old trick

Check Point's researchers recently discovered a new variant of the Joker Dropper and Premium Dialer spyware in Google Play. Researchers Aviran Hazum, Bogdan Melnykov and Israel Wernik offer their analysis Hiding in seemingly legitimate applications, we found that this...

Women in the Covid-19 firing line

Women seem to be bearing the brunt of contracting Covid-19 at work. This is the picture emerging from claims lodged with the Compensation Fund, which indicate that more than 80% of the cases received so far involve women and this is consistent in all provinces. As the...

With the right post-Covid response, Africa could bounce back

Africa's economic growth could rebound in 2021, provided that governments manage the Covid-19 infection rate well. This is according to updated forecasts from the African Development Bank, which projects growth rebounding to 3% in 2021 from -3,4% in the worst-case...

Covid-19 drug to be manufactured, distributed in SA

Cipla has been granted a license by Gilead Sciences to manufacture and distribute the antiviral medicine, remdesivir, in 127 countries, including South Africa, As many of these countries are low-income countries and emerging markets that face obstacles in accessing...

Africa urged to drive radical health policy shift

Global health experts and practitioners have called for a "Marshall Plan on Inclusive Health in Africa" during a policy webinar hosted by the African Development Institute (ADI). There is an urgent need for inclusive health policy in Africa - one that can detect and...

Pressure is on brands to lead change

The emergence of Covid-19 met a world that was already battling social justice and ecological catastrophes, with consumers calling for radical change. In different ways, and for a number of reasons, consumers were anxious about the future and, as the world wrestles...

Move to virtual events a modest success

A recent International Data Corporation (IDC) survey confirms that conferencing applications were already in wide use at home and at work prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. When the pandemic created the need to move in-person events to virtual meetings and conferences,...

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