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...

Vodacom Western Cape invests R570m

Vodacom Western Cape plans to invest R570-million this financial year into the region's network as part of the company's commitment to building an inclusive digital society. Of this investment, R470-million is allocated to improve the quality, capacity and reach of...

Government urged to extend Social Relief of Distress Grant

To mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on people living in poverty, government introduced the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) Grant in 2020 - at the onset of the global health emergency - in an effort to support those in need. However, many eligible South...

CFOs plan to spend more on cloud, RPA, analytics

In May and June the number of companies furloughing staff, as well as cutting salaries and workforce will have more than doubled since the end of March. According to a Gartner survey of 161 finance executives on 3 May, 11% of respondents reduced staff in March, and...

Hardcopy shipments worse than expected

According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market declined by 6,9% in unit terms in 1Q20 compared with the same period a year ago, to give a market size of 4,33-million units. This figure is in...

Bitcoin halving highlights role of crypto

Bitcoin's halving event on Monday underscores that the "long-term future of cryptocurrencies is secure". This is the word from Nigel Green , CEO and founder of deVere Group, as the world's supply of bitcoin was cut on Monday. The halving event, occurring only every...

Lockdown regulations drive piracy increase

The Publishers Associations of South Africa, an affiliate of the Copyright Coalition of South Africa, has served cease and desist letters on the administrators of the WhatsApp group called "Die Boek Klub" as part of an ongoing effort to curb an explosion in piracy...

Pandemic to devastate retail sales

Global retail sales are expected to drop by $2,1-trillion in 2020, according to a new report from Forrester. China is the worst affected country in the Asia Pacific region, with $192-billion of retail sales (excluding restaurants, automobile, and gasoline) lost from...

Trends that will impact the future of work

Organisations can differentiate themselves from competitors during the Covid-19 pandemic by leveraging nine ongoing trends, according to Gartner. These trends are broken into three categories: accelerating trends, new impacts that were not previously part of the...

Data drives Vodacom’s SA growth

The Vodacom group has reported group revenue up 4,8% (3,5 %) year ended 31 March 2020, supported by group service revenue growth of 5% (3,5%). The group also added 5,9-million customers, to serve a combined 116-million customers. Total financial services customers up...

Non-Covid healthcare must be maintained

Countries should maintain essential health care to non-Covid-19 patients while dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. This is a message from Secretary-General Patricia Scotland ahead of the Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting taking place virtually on 14 May. Some...

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