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...

PayShap now available at Capitec and Discovery Bank

Building on the uptake of PayShap among consumers, which saw it reach the 1-million transaction milestone withing six months, Capitec and Discovery Bank have become the latest banks to offer the service to clients. "The PayShap service is fast proving to be a viable,...

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...

Africa cannot go back to ‘business as usual’

Like every other pandemic that the world has experienced in the past, coronavirus will eventually come to an end. It will be defeated, and life return to normal. But it will teach us an important lesson: the need to invest in health infrastructure across the world,...

Online shopping and streaming phishing multiplies

Ongoing quarantine and lockdown measures are driving a rapid growth of phishing attacks with websites that imitate online shopping and streaming platforms. Kaspersky experts have compared the numbers for Q1 2019 with the same period this year, and found that the share...

Lockdown exposes realities of remote working

The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown has exposed weaknesses in many organisations' workforce management practices. While the unique circumstances forced companies to quickly embrace remote working, many were completely unprepared to manage users in their...

Disease now seen as top international threat

As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, Americans say the greatest international threat to the well-being of their country is the spread of infectious diseases. According to a new Pew Research Centre report, nearly all US adults (98%) say this is at least a minor...

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