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...

Fraudsters prey on traditional African beliefs

South Africans are deeply connected to their culture and cultural beliefs, but scam artists and conmen are quickly learning how to take advantage of this. Followers of the fundamental traditional African belief system believe they are watched over by their ancestors...

AWS opens first African Skills Centre in Cape Town

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened its first international AWS Skills Centre on the African continent in Cape Town, continuing on its mission to remove the barriers of access to cloud skills training. The centres are Amazon's dedicated, in-person cloud learning...

Covid-19 spotlight on website takedowns

South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) is advising members that hosting so-called "fake news" websites is prohibited by Clause 11(5) of the Disaster Management Act regulations which makes it an offence to publish any statement with the intention...

African Development Bank funds renewable energy

The African Development Bank-managed Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) has approved a $760 000 grant to Empower New Energy (EmNEW) to develop at least eight small renewable energy projects with capacity ranging from1-10 MW, towards bankability and...

Phishing thrives in time of Covid-19

Phishing email attacks related to Covid-19 were up 600% in Q1 2020, according to KnowBe4's Q1 2020 top-clicked phishing report. During the quarter, simulated phishing tests with an urgent message to check passwords immediately was most popular at 45%. Following this...

Services market loses momentum in pandemic

Worldwide IT Services and Business Services revenue grew 5% year over year in 2019, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Services Tracker. This represents the second consecutive year the market has accelerated since 2017 (from 4%...

Why smaller phones could be coming

Information workers prefer a smaller phone, and vendors should be looking at this opportunity. This is the word from Frank Gillett, vice-president and principal analyst at Forrester, who writes on why Apple would consider a new "small" iPhone, and why other smartphone...

Pandemic changes the definition of sales operations

A Gartner poll of 38 sales leaders on 14 April 2020 showed that 38% of organisations have already cut sales operations budgets and another 14% plan to cut their budgets in the next three months due to the coronavirus. As a result, sales operations leaders must adjust...

EMEA external enterprise storage was down in 2019

EMEA external storage systems market value in 2019Q4 was down 5.4% year on year in dollars and 2,5% in euros, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. The market closed 2019 down 2% in dollar terms for the full...

Coronavirus plunges SA’s economic transactions to 2008 levels

Economic transactions in South Africa plunged to their lowest levels as Covid-19 took severe effect on the economy and consumers in March. The BankservAfrica Economic Transaction Index (BETI) is the quickest and broadest monthly indicator of economic activity in the...

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