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...

IaaS cloud networking starting to gain in importance

The importance of networking to and within cloud environments has grown significantly for enterprise customers as more and more applications, workloads, and data are moved to the cloud, with IDC estimating that worldwide revenue for public cloud-based infrastructure...

Curro about to set local robotics on fire

Curro Durbanville High School will help ignite National Science Week when it hosts the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Western Cape Regional competition next weekend (Saturday 5 August). Teams of learners from different schools across the province are set to take part in...

Businesses woefully unprepared for a Covid-19 outbreak

More than half of companies (51%) around the world have no plans or protocols in place to combat a global emergency, such as the novel coronavirus covid-19, a study by global consultancy firm Mercer has shown. Didintle Kwape, associate consultant at Mercer, states:...

Technical recession, 4IR put pressure on jobs

Having recently slipped into a technical recession, the South African economy continues to experience dangerously low levels of economic growth, which does not bode well for national employment figures. Making matters worse is the technologically-driven fourth...

Curiosity snaps high-resolution panorama

NASA's Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface. Composed of more than 1 000 images taken during the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday and carefully assembled over the ensuing months, the composite contains 1,8-billion pixels of...

NAPAfrica reaches 1Tbps milestone

Teraco has announced that NAPAfrica, Africa's largest Internet exchange point (IXP) and seventh largest in the world, has reached a landmark with 1 Terabit per second (Tbps) of peak traffic. According to Andrew Owens, manager of interconnection and peering at Teraco,...

Canon could cut HP Inc ties if Xerox acquisition succeeds

It's been reported that Canon will cut its ties with HP Inc if the hostile takeover bid launched by Xerox is successful. Canon chairman and CEO Fujio Matarai is quoted in Nikkei Asian review as saying that a takeover by Xerox would create a company rivalling Canon's...

SA fintech startup breaks R10bn barrier

South African fintech startup Ozow has processed more than R10-billion in payments. Ozow is an online banking payment solution that enables merchants to receive and process payments from any South African with a bank account across all payment environments, allowing...

Customer services technology trends for 2020

A recent survey of nearly 250 customer service and support leaders across the globe revealed five emerging trends in technology adoption and where service organisations are getting the most return on investments (ROI) today, according to Gartner. "Technology plays an...

MTN fights back against battery theft syndicates

MTN reports that it is continuing to make inroads in the fight against battery theft at base stations. Seven individuals have been arrested, a total of 55 batteries were recovered, and four vehicles with tools were confiscated in a series of operations across the...

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