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 AI chip revenue to reach $53bn this year

Semiconductors designed to execute artificial intelligence (AI) workloads will represent a $53,4-billion revenue opportunity for the semiconductor industry in 2023, an increase of 20,9% from 2022, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. “The developments...

Mobile robots to outpace drones in supply chain

Smart mobile robot adoption in supply chains is growing rapidly and will far outpace drones over the next three years, according to Gartner. In the Gartner report, Hype Cycle for Mobile Robots and Drones, 2023, Gartner experts said that many organisations already...

Virus turns carbon market upside down

In the past couple of weeks, Europe's carbon price has undergone drastic change and is currently trading between €16 per metric ton and €18 per metric ton. Prices have dropped up to €9 per metric ton, a reduction of 40% since early March when prices were trading at...

Pandemic demands fast, agile data centres

Kathy Gibson is at the virtual Nutanix .Now conference – The world has never been in a situation like the one we find ourselves in now, and it’s driving renewed pressure for IT to do more with less, remotely. Rob Tribe, senior director: systems engineers Western...

5G and its role in fighting the pandemic

Kathy Gibson reports on the virtual 5G+ Better World Summit - Telecommunications has contributed to the world's efforts in healthcare and continues to be a major player in the fight against Covid-19, with 5G promising faster and better communication. Shaun Collins,...

Frontier technologies to fight climate change

From cutting emissions in cities to natural disaster risk reduction, smart water management and precise climate monitoring, frontier technologies in fields such as artificial intelligence, 5G and robotics demonstrate considerable potential to support the battle...

Pandemic ushers in greater demand for tech skills

With the economic devastation following in the wake of Covid-19, most organisations find themselves in an unprecedented and extremely difficult situation that has allowed for little to no time for consultation or preparation. Overnight, South Africans were forced into...

SA inflation declines to 4,1% in March

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports that consumer price inflation decreased from 4,6% year-on-year (y-o-y) in February to 4,1% y-o-y in March 2020. Inflation averaged 4,4% during the first quarter compared to a South African Reserve Bank (SARB) forecast of...

Three steps to improve virtual meetings

With the rapid adoption of enterprise-grade digital meeting and workstream collaboration solutions in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Gartner has identified three steps for IT leaders to improve current operations. Business leaders looking to support a newly...

Global initiative boosts messaging on Covid-19 protection

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), with support from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), are set to work with telecommunication companies to text people directly on their mobile phones with vital health...

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Role-specific knowledge: Java 1.6, 1.7 & 8+ Functional Java REST Easy JAX RS J2EE JEE 5 + Context and Dependency Injection Java Logging frameworks (Log4j, Jboss, SLF4J) Junit with unit and integration tests Maven multi-module project setup and development CI/CD...

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