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...

Open Banking, AI expected to drive credit scoring market

Credit scoring services will grow by 67% to $44-billion by 2028, according to a new study from fintech experts Juniper Research, which says emerging markets will experience the greatest growth. The report says the African & Middle Eastern region will grow by 117%...

Can force majeure be invoked if the grid collapses?

If South Africa were to experience a total grid collapse, parties to a contract may be able to invoke force majeure clauses, or if no such clauses exist, to rely on the law of supervening impossibility, according to this opinion by Michael Straeuli, partner and...

Pandemic bolsters case for technology-based economic resilience

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating impact globally, the African continent, while less affected, is preparing to undergo its own severe social and economic crisis. By Stefan Nalletamby, acting vice-president for private sector, infrastructure and...

Vehicle behaviour trends during lockdown

During the current Covid-19 lockdown, people are allowed to use their vehicles, but permitted trips are limited to visits to the grocery store, pharmacy or to access essential services. The majority of the population is at home to minimise interaction and to avoid...

Sharp decline for traditional PC shipments

The global traditional PC market, comprised of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, declined 9,8% year over year in the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20), reaching a total of 53,2-million shipments according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation...

SARB comes to the Covid-19 party

Globally, central banks have unleashed a new wave of stimulus to counter the effects of the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. Sanisha Packirisamy, economist at Momentum Investments and Herman van Papendorp, head of investment research and asset allocation...

Remote working drives demand for notebooks, tablets

Initial feedback on the first quarter across Europe suggests a spike of a third or so in year-on-year demand for notebook computers and tablets, as Covid-19 lockdowns have led companies to equip employees to work at home and students set themselves up to study...

Challenging outlook for 3D printer sales

As of the end of Q1 2020, many 3D printer companies from the US, Europe, China and everywhere across the globe have rightly refocused their effort away from printer sales to producing much-needed supplies to help combat coronavirus, according to research by Context....

No uncertainty about the economic disaster of the lockdown

Advocates of the lockdown ignore the most basic law of life, that benefits have costs, and that costs easily exceed benefits. This is according to Leon Louw, CEO of the Free Market Foundation (FMF), who has issued the following statement: People's most "essential"...

Pandemic saw PC shipments decline 12,3% in Q1

Worldwide PC shipments totalled 51,6-million units in the first quarter of 2020, a 12,3% decline from the first quarter of 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner. After three consecutive quarters of growth, the worldwide PC market experienced its sharpest...

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