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...

Record number of fintechs enter Ecobank Challenge

More than 1 400 fintech startups from 64 countries across Africa and beyond applied for this year's Ecobank Fintech Challenge, with eight of them making the cut to the final where they will compete for the ultimate prize. This is the sixth edition of this...

Marketing leaders shift to genAI

Sixty-three percent of marketing leaders are planning to invest in generative AI in the next 24 months according to a survey from Gartner. Slightly more than half of respondents (56%) see greater reward than risk in generative AI. A Gartner survey of 405 marketing...

NASA probes environment and Covid-19 impacts

Scientists are using information from NASA’s Earth-observing satellites, on-the-ground sensors and computer-based datasets to study the environmental, economic and societal impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, the agency’s Earth Science Division recently...

China pilots digital currency

China is piloting its new digital currency, the e-RMB, is four major cities where it has been formally adopted into their monetary systems. The cities, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chegdu and Xiong'an, have used e-RMB to pay some public servants' salaries as well as in...

Telcos prepare for 5G opportunities, challenges

5G network technology gives telecommunications operators the ability to deliver many new applications and services in dynamic ways. Low-latency connectivity, ultra-high broadband speeds, and mobile edge computing capabilities will create myriad innovative business...

Covid-19 strikes global mobile communications

Mobile services represent critical infrastructure that's allowing people to stay connected during the coronavirus crisis. However, that doesn't mean these services are immune to the pandemic's economic shock, with 2020 market revenue now expected to come in about...

Call for free trade deal to go ahead in July

Ahead of the AU ministerial meeting on 5 and 6 May that will be discussing the trade response to Covid-19 and the state of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), a number of business leaders have signed a joint letter calling for ministers and Heads of...

Tech giants emerge as pandemic winners

Microsoft has reported a surge in usage of its cloud computing service Azure, as millions of people work from home. By Sean Markowicz, strategist: research and analytics, and global asset manager at Schroders Amazon is hiring an additional 75 000 workers, on top of...

Global smartphone shipments in 16,8% plunge

Global smartphone shipments dropped by 16,8% in the first quarter as vendors struggled to manage coronavirus-driven production shutdowns, product-launch delays and depressed consumer demand. Shipments in the first quarter fell to 274,4-million units, down from...

NASA selects partners to land humans on the moon

NASA has selected three US companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency's Artemis program, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface of the Moon by 2024. NASA is on track for sustainable human exploration of the...

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