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...

Customer experience an increasingly decisive factor in travel booking

When booking a flight, experience at the airport is an increasingly important consideration for passengers beyond just cost and availability of destinations. This is according to SITA's 2023 Passenger IT Insights report, which finds customers are looking to technology...

Enjoy Threads while maintaining privacy and security

Threads has released a new Web version that allows users to finally search for content and use other features from any of their desktop devices. There are over 43-million visits to Threads per month from desktop and mobile. Kaspersky experts have compiled a list of...

Regional PC sales down with no respite this year

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market - made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets - saw shipments decline 10,2% year on year during the first quarter of 2020. According to the latest Quarterly PCD Tracker from...

Lockdown-linked consumer demand drives inkjet printer sales

A spike in consumer printer demand during Covid-19 lockdowns has helped overall sales through European distributors grow by 2,2% year-on-year in the first 18 weeks of 2020, according to Context. "The latest data indicates that, although not as essential to home...

Smart cities could advance response to Covid-19

Many of the short-term fixes and even long-term cures envisaged for the illness of urban and wider society so vividly and exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic lie, at least in part and sometimes almost completely with ICT. With 50% of the world's population living in...

Smartphone sales set to plummet in 2020

The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to decline 11,9% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling 1,2-billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. The forecast follows the largest...

Mixed bag for enterprise WLAN sales

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments rose 2,3% year over year in the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20), according to results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker....

Legacy technology, lack of skills hamper digital transformation

As organisations look to transform their business operations and revolutionise customer service, digital transformation (DX) is at the top of most CXOs' agendas - in fact, DX spending is expected to approach $7,4-trillion between 2020 and 2023, a CAGR of 17,5%....

Covid-19 delays AARTO rollout

The national rollout date for the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Act has been delayed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. In August 2019, the AARTO Bill was signed into law and although no date was officially promulgated, it was...

Earwear, wristbands drive wearables growth

Global shipments of wearable devices grew 29.7% year over year during the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20) as total device volume reached 72,6-million units according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker....

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