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...

GenAI set to take over most B2B sales work

By 2028, 60% of B2B seller work will be executed through conversational user interfaces via generative AI sales technologies, up from less than 5% in 2023, according to Gartner. "Sales operations leaders and their technology teams must prepare for the convergence of...

Wearables bounce back

Global shipments for wearable devices returned to growth in the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23) reversing two quarters of decline, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. The market grew 8,5% year...

The Moon could be more metallic than we thought

What started out as a hunt for ice lurking in polar lunar craters turned into an unexpected finding that could help clear some muddy history about the Moon's formation. Team members of the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance...

Lockdowns will become harder to enforce

A study by a team led by academics at the University of Pretoria (UP) predicts that South Africans' waning compliance with government lockdown regulations will limit their impact in curbing the Covid-19 pandemic. A consequence of this is that "strict lockdown...

E-commerce cements its place in SA retail

E-commerce, and specifically in the retail sector, has broken barriers regardless of the global pandemic's lockdown restrictions. Global business-data platform Statista believes that the South African market will reach just over R62-billion this year, and show a...

SA ramps up locally-developed testing capacity

The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), have made seven funding awards to local companies, organisations and researchers in order to ramp up the country's ability to...

What pre-installed adware means for mobile users

Following analysis of attacks on mobile devices, Kaspersky has uncovered that 14,8% of its users who were targeted by malware or adware in 2019 suffered a system partition infection, making the malicious files undeletable. In addition, pre-installed default...

Cell C Innovation Challenge relaunches

After a brief hiatus due to the Covid-19 lockdown, the Cell C Innovation Challenge, relaunched on 3 July 2020. The program, aimed at providing opportunities for SMEs and entrepreneurs in the ICT sector, was launched back in October of 2019 in partnership with the...

Blue Label Telecoms expects improved earnings

Blue Label Telecoms has published an initial trading statement for the year ended 31 May 2020, alerting shareholders that basic, headline and core headline earnings per share are expected to increase by more than 20% in comparison to the previous year, when a loss was...

Working from home likely to stick post-Covid

Experts around the world have been advocating for increased workplace flexibility and work-from-home arrangements for a long time. In fact, flexible work has been linked to improved employee engagement by the likes of Gallup, Gartner and other highly respected...

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