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...

Why state-level hacking is a problem for your business

Nation-state cyberattacks are on the increase globally, with a growing ecosystem of nation-state threat actors contributing to an expanding pool of sophisticated hacking tools that ultimately become available to anyone. This is the view of Leigh Murray, CTO at Triple4...

IBM, Microsoft collaborate on generative AI services

IBM is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to help joint clients accelerate the deployment of generative AI - and deliver a new offering that will provide clients with the expertise and technology they need to innovate their business processes and scale...

Double extortion comes to the fore

Researchers at Check Point see a rising trend in a new ransomware tactic: “double extortion”. This tactic sees threat actors add an additional stage to a ransomware attack: prior to encrypting a victim’s database, hackers will extract large quantities of sensitive...

Phone industry set for massive decline

IDC is forecasting that the European smartphone market will likely fall in value by more than a quarter this year in the aftermath of widespread national lockdowns to combat the spread of coronavirus. Under IDC's current forecast, in a worst-case scenario the value...

AI needs to accelerate to tackle pandemic

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the IDC (International Data Corporation) Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide had forecast European artificial intelligence (AI) spending of $10-billion for 2020, and a healthy growth at a 33% CAGR throughout 2023. With the...

Research offers focused Covid-19 analysis

Strategy and investment consulting firm Singular has released its South African Health & Economic crises research to provide decision-makers with a concrete and focused view on how the crises in South Africa could develop over the next weeks and months. Singular...

Workforce transformation in a time of crisis

Kathy Gibson is at the Dell Technologies Harness your Digital Future Virtual Summit - The four pillars of digital transformation are IT transformation, workforce transformation, security transformation and application transformation. This is the word from Walid Yehia,...

Arctic stratospheric ozone depletion hit record low in March

Ozone levels above the Arctic reached a record low for March, NASA researchers report. An analysis of satellite observations show that ozone levels reached their lowest point on 12 March, at 205 Dobson units. While such low levels are rare, they are not unprecedented....

SA entrepreneurs innovate in testing

Two South African entrepreneurs have developed a testing kit that promises to significantly speed up the process of identifying positive Covid-19 cases. Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Fellows Daniel Ndima and Dineo Lioma have developed a testing kit that provides results...

Covid-19 and the top healthcare growth opportunities

The Covid-19 pandemic is set to reshape the healthcare industry with cutting-edge technologies in virtual care such as internet of medical things (IoMT), teleradiology, telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, and virtual visits. The post-Covid-19 telehealth market...

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