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...

5G satellite networks to generate $17bn more for telcos

New research from Juniper Research has found operators will generate $17-billion of additional revenue from 3GPP (third-generation partnership project)-compliant 5G satellite networks between 2024 and 2030. It urges operators to sign partnerships with SNOs (Satellite...

New tools could catalyse response to TB deaths

As the United Nations High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on tuberculosis (TB) approaches, a new report from the Lancet Commission, co-authored by the University of Cape Town's (UCT) researcher, released recommendations which provide a path forward to turn the tide on this...

More cost-cutting on the cards for 2020

Chief financial officers (CFOs) will continue to scale back spending by 4% to 11% across their selling, general, and administrative expenses (SG&A) functions for 2020. This is according to a Gartner survey of CFOs and senior finance leaders taken at the end of May...

It’s getting harder to ID Covid-19 phishing scams

Phishing campaigns related to Covid-19 are becoming more targeted and difficult to identify as the pandemic progresses, a new report from privacy advocacy group ProPrivacy suggests. The project, conducted in partnership with VirusTotal (Alphabet) and WHOIS XML,...

Enterprise ODM direct infrastructure market value passes $21bn

Worldwide revenues for hyperscale infrastructure (servers and storage) sold by original design manufacturers (ODMs) directly to cloud service providers surpassed $21-billion in 2019. According to an International Data Corporation (IDC) report, "Worldwide ODM Direct...

Global Esports Federation joins ITU to launch esports dialogue

The Global Esports Federation (GEF) has become a member of ITU's standardisation arm (ITU-T) to launch a global dialogue on the new partnerships emerging in support of the fast-growing competitive esports industry. The dialogue aims to create the conditions necessary...

Covid-19 and its effect on industrial printers

The new Worldwide Quarterly Industrial Printer Tracker from International Data Corporation's (IDC) shows industrial printer and large format printer shipments declined in Q1 2020. "While shipments and revenues have declined in the large format printer market over the...

Say hello to the newest cosmic baby …

Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions of years ago, and objects that have been around for just as long. That's partly why the recently discovered neutron star...

Is this the death of the office as we know it?

Kathy Gibson reports from a Nutanix webinar – The word work has transitioned from being a noun to a verb. Work is no long a place people go, but is the thing people do. This happened almost unconsciously, says Professor Herman Singh, CEO of Future Advisory. The office...

No let-up for mobile growth in Africa

Mobile data traffic in sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to grow by 12-times the current figures, with total traffic increasing from 0,33 exabytes (Eb) per month to 4Eb by 2025. Meanwhile, average traffic per smartphone is expected to reach 7,1Gb over the forecast...

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