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...

Google opens AI accelerator for African startups

Google has unveiled the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First, an initiative aimed at supporting African startups looking to use artificial intelligence (AI) to solve local challenges. The programme recognises the transformative role that AI is playing across the...

How India can realise growth potential

S&P Global Market Intelligence has found that, for India to meet its growth potential in the coming years, the country must leverage its strong and growing labour force, hone in on the growth of its global manufacturing exports, and lean into the boom in local...

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...

Study identifies largest IaaS and PaaS workloads on public cloud

A new study from IDC offers the first look at enterprise workloads leveraging Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities on the public cloud. The study found that IaaS and PaaS spending in 2018 was dominated by three workloads:...

Lockdown takes its toll on road freight

Road freight operators are predicting an 80% drop in their income for the lockdown period which started on 26 March and is scheduled to end on 30 April. This is according to the results of a weekly survey conducted by the Road Freight Association (RFA) among its...

Sextortion bribes used to fund criminal activity

Sophos has traced the money extracted from sextortion victims, exposing how they were used to fund an underbelly of cybercriminal activity. A SophosLabs article, “Following the Money in a Massive ‘Sextortion’ Spam Scheme”, details how researchers traced the origin of...

Structural reforms on the cards as economy reopens

The economic recovery strategy announced last night by President Cyril Ramaphosa aims to stimulate demand and supply through interventions including a substantial infrastructure build programme, the speedy implementation of economic reforms, the transformation of our...

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