The fourth annual edition of the Digital Quality of Life Index (DQL) reports that South Africa ranks 66th in the world regarding digital wellbeing, out of 117 countries or 92% of the global population. Out of the five fundamental digital life pillars, South Africa's...

Science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics and innovation (STEAMI) holds the key to a prosperous future for South Africa's youth. Young South Africans should seize the opportunities this field offers as they prepare themselves for the careers of the future...

Hybrid cloud enablement partner the Velocity Group has launched an initiative to reduce the cost of Azure cloud services and increase the success rate of hybrid cloud projects. The initiative sees Velocity Group provide Azure Reserved Instances (RIs) at cost,...

Jaguar Land Rover has fitted virtual eyes to intelligent pods to understand how humans will trust self-driving vehicles, as research studies suggest that as many as 63% of pedestrians worry about how safe it will be to cross the road in the future. The friendly-faced...

The Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB) has released statistics showing that renewable energy is becoming increasingly important for households and industries across Europe. This is according to Tom Lindberg, MD of ECOHZ, who says: "Both available supply and market...

International tourist arrivals grew 7% in 2017, the highest increase since 2010, according to the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)’s latest collection of Tourism Highlights. Growth in arrivals was echoed by a strong increase in exports generated by tourism, which...

Aurecon is aiming to be the first consulting engineering company to become a registered drone operator in South Africa. The infrastructure advisory and engineering consultancy company intends to use their squadron of drones as a value-adding tool on client projects,...

Kathy Gibson is at Fujitsu Day in Johannesburg - There is still a lot of fear and uncertainty associated with digital transformation. But organisations need to bold, and chart a way forwards, says Abdul Moosa, chief technology officer of Fujitsu South Africa. The five...

Kathy Gibson is at Fujitsu Day in Johannesburg - Data is the reason why IT exists and needs to take pride of place at the centre of the IT universe. "It is the new capital, the new currency for business," says Michael Marticke, evangelist: data centre at Fujitsu "So...

The world population will reach 9,9-billion by 2050, up 2,3-billion or 29% from an estimated 7,6-billion people now, according to projections by Population Reference Bureau (PRB) in its 2018 World Population Data Sheet. The world population will also continue to age...