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...

Global offline population continues steady decline

The number of people worldwide not connected to the Internet decreased to an estimated 2,6-billion people in 2023, according to the latest data from ITU. The reduction from the estimated 2,7-billion people offline in 2022 leaves 33% of the global population...

SA’s co.za domain passes 1,25m milestone

There are now over 1,25-million individual domain names registered within South Africa's flagship co.za Internet domain, according to the ZA Central Registry NPC (ZACR). "It speaks volumes that co.za has powered over the 1.25m mark during the current lockdown as...

SMBs must increase awareness about secure working

Although small businesses are less inclined to provide their staff with company devices to work from home, only one third of employees (34%) in this category have received instructions on how to securely work on personal laptops, tablets and smartphones while at home...

Change and how people’s values are shifting

Kathy Gibson is at a Fjord-Accenture Interactive webinar - Change is a constant, it is said, and never was an adage truer than this year with the Covid-19 pandemic and associated economic upheaval ravaging businesses worldwide. Every year, Fjord crowdsources trends...

TikTok takes off in SA, but Facebook keeps its lead

South Africa's largest annual study of social media trends has revealed that Facebook remains the social platform of choice for marketing - but TikTok is rising fast among both brands and consumers. According to the 2020 edition of the SA Social Media Landscape,...

SA businesses expect to suffer email-borne attack

Despite high levels of confidence in respondents' cyber resilience strategies, there is a clear need for improvement, according to Mimecast's fourth-annual State of Email Security 2020 report. While a large majority (77%) of respondents say they have or are actively...

Urgent need to uplift SA’s youth

As SA's lockdown restrictions ease in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, its impact on the economy will be long-lasting and challenging. It is an important time for business, government, educators, non-government organisations, and other stakeholders to uplift the...

5G market is at the tipping point

5G is considered as one of the largest market opportunities in the coming years, with large scale roll-out of infrastructures and rapid adoption of 5G devices and services. The technology will not only accelerate the growth and expansion of telecom; it will also...

Post-Covid smart meter shipments to hit 34,8m units

Annual shipments of smart energy meters in Europe will reach a record level of 34.8 million units in 2021, according to a new report from Berg Insight. Temporarily postponed meter installations due to Covid-19 are expected to have a slightly negative impact on...

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