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...

ChatGPT dominates LLM mentions on social media

In the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs), OpenAI's ChatGPT has emerged as the frontrunner with an impressive 89,9% share of voice on platforms like Twitter and Reddit among the top seven LLMs so far in 2023, reveals...

Software engineering leaders require oversight of generative AI

By 2025, more than half of all software engineering leader role descriptions will explicitly require oversight of generative artificial intelligence (AI), says Gartner. "Outside of generative AI's impact on technology implementation, it also changes the managerial...

Blockchain comes of age

In 2019 and 2020, enterprise blockchain solutions reached minimum viable product (MVP). Since then technical barriers are falling fast in the building of a new network of networks. Hot spots of development are now making visible the shape of things to come and the...

Fibre enables new levels of Internet connectivity

Since the onset of Covid-19 and the consequential lockdown, reliable and fast Internet connectivity has become a vital requirement for businesses and individuals working and learning from home. Expansion in the digital economy and the resultant exponential growth in...

Covid-19 and its effect on SA’s gig economy

The non-standard employment status of gig workers during Covid-19 has made them particularly vulnerable during an economic shutdown. However, some gig networking platforms have stepped up to ease the pain, according to a report by The Fairwork Project - a...

The future of SMME financing

Traditional models of business funding need a rethink if South Africa's small businesses and entrepreneurs are to emerge from the financially crippling "winter of coronavirus" into a spring of growth and rejuvenation. Accepting that downturns, recessions and economic...

Tips to help SMEs weather the crisis

The National Small Business Chamber (NSBC ) has revealed that 86% of small businesses say they have suffered negative effects as a result of the pandemic, with just 14% of small business owners saying they had experienced limited effects. "The short-term outlook for...

Mastercard expands efforts for digital inclusion

The health and economic consequences of Covid-19 have highlighted the critical need to support vulnerable populations, many of whom are disproportionately impacted. Mastercard has pledged to bring a total of 1-billion people and 50-million micro and small businesses...

Internet penetration still low despite lower pricing

On average, prices for mobile-voice, mobile-data and fixed-broadband services are decreasing steadily around the world, and in some countries even dramatically. The reduction in price relative to income is even more dramatic, suggesting that, globally,...

Tech, ESG dubbed investment megatrends of the decade

Technology and responsible investing will "inevitably be the top two megatrends" of the 2020s. This is the word from deVere Group's chief executive and founder Nigel Green. He says global stocks are rising as the world looks ahead to the post-pandemic era and gradual...

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Senior Network Engineer – Remote Remote

Global legal practice is looking to appoint an Senior Network Engineer Responsible for designing, organizing, modifying and supporting the existing WAN's and LAN's designand the ongoing extensions to network that take into account factors such as bandwidth...

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