Kathy Gibson reports - South African companies expect to massively increase their investment in cloud this year. Seventy-three percent of South African respondents in the "Cloud in Africa" study released today by World Wide Worx in conjunction with Red Hat and F5 say...

With the rise in popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) - especially with the recent launch of the ChatGPT bot - there are concerns among employees in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa region with regard to robots and automation systems used by companies,...

A new application round has opened for the R12,8-million CDI Growth Fund to boost SME growth and job creation. The CDI Growth Fund is a grant fund specifically for growing South African small businesses who need a cash injection to scale up further and create jobs....

New research from IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, says that global shipments of NB-IoT devices reached 53-million units in 2018 and are expected to almost triple in 2019 to 142-million units. Commercial deployments are essentially confined to China, where the...

Kathy Gibson is at the E-Learning Summit in East London - The Eastern Cape province is embracing e-learning as one of its strategic pillars of education. Fundile Gade, MEC: education and training for the Eastern Cape, stresses that ICT cannot be allowed to fail in the...

Kathy Gibson is at the E-Learning Summit in East London - When we talk about the digital revolution, it needs to be linked to the context of South Africa where rural schools, rural colleges and poor communities are the reality. Khaya Matiso, principal and HRD Council...

Kathy Gibson is at the E-Learning Summit in East London – E-learning is a very important subject, whose time is now – but it won’t happen if we don’t overcome some very real challenges Professor Sakhela Buhlungu, vice-chancellor of University of Fort Hare, points out...

Kathy Gibson is at the E-Learning Summit in East London - South Africa is still lagging behind as far as connectivity is concerned – but the challenges can be viewed as an opportunity. This is the word from Tebogo Leshope, chief operations officer at Sentech, who says...

IBM has announced the expansion of its quantum computing efforts to Africa in a new collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in South Africa. Wits University is the first African partner on the IBM Q Network and will be the gateway for...

Africa's smartphone market saw a 7,1% decline in shipments quarter on quarter (QoQ) in Q1 2019 to total 21,5-million units, according to the latest insights from IDC. The company's recently published Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows the continent's two biggest...