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...

Sub-Saharan Africa leads in Bitcoin adoption

The adoption and use of Bitcoin in sub-Saharan Africa is the highest in the world, according to the Chainalysis 2023 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report by Chainalysis, which yesterday shared a chapter focusing on the region. The report indicates that the use of...

Internal AI platforms to proliferate

By 2026, 80% of large enterprise finance teams will rely on internally managed and owned generative AI platforms trained with proprietary business data, according to Gartner. "The recent entry of large, well-established companies into the generative AI market has...

AWS Outposts now available in SA

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of AWS Outposts in South Africa. AWS Outposts delivers fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run AWS compute, storage,...

5G’s impact on global GDP over $7,5trn

By 2030, 5G's impact on the global GDP will be over $7,5-trillion - compared to the $5,1-trillion 4G contributed in 2019. This is according to Dimitris Mavrakis, research director of ABI research, who says new 'G' technologies have historically offered major benefits...

Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon

Apple has announced it will transition the Mac to its own custom silicon. Developers can now get started updating their apps to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of Apple silicon in the Mac. This transition will also establish a common architecture across...

Supplementary budget tax revenue targets may be unrealistic

On Wednesday (24 June), Finance Minister Tito Mboweni presented the supplementary budget in response to emergency measures taken to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Ettiene Retief, chairman of the National Tax and SARS Committee at the South African...

Consumers drive print market, but business renewal is coming

In May 2020, the consumer print market dominated (inkjet MFPs continued to shine, with sales driven by low-cost consumer models), and business spend continued to suffer, according to the latest data from Context. "The shift towards consumer sales has been dramatic and...

Blair believes UK likely to limit Huawei on 5G networks

Kathy Gibson is at Reuters Newsmaker virtual event – The UK will likely opt to support the US in its stance on Huawei and limit the Chinese vendor’s involvement in building 5G networks in the country. This is the word from Tony Blair, executive chairman of the Tony...

No surprises, limited relief for struggling businesses

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni did not offer many surprises in his supplementary budget today, which aims to rebalance government spending and create a framework for economic growth in the post-Covid landscape. By Yolandi Esterhuizen, registered tax practitioner and...

Budget outlines significant challenges, but few solutions

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's 2020 Supplementary Budget Speech clearly emphasised the dire situation facing the National Treasury. Unfortunately, it did not offer much detail about how it expects to actively raise revenue and reduce expenditure to address the...

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