Africa moves from AI ambition to action

AI has moved from potential to proven economic value and while ambition setting is near universal across economies, execution speed is the differentiator, according to Boston Consulting Group’s The AI Maturity Matrix 2026: AI Is Transforming How Economies Develop and...

The shocking reality facing jobseekers

Of the 867 706 people who registered looking for entry-level work in retail, restaurants and quick-service outlets over a 13-month period, just 6 566 were appointed - approximately one in every 132 – and between them, they sent nearly five million applications. The...

Spatial data maps where Super El Niño will hit SA hardest

The South African Weather Service gave the clearest sign yet on 1 September: this El Niño is on course to become the strongest event in living memory, with sea surface temperatures already tracking past 3°C above normal. A national outlook can't say which town or...

MeerKAT and Webb measure farthest fast radio burst

First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts are enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant universe. Their origin remains uncertain, particularly since most are seen once and never again. Now, astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space...

World leaders urge adaptation in the climate change agenda

Global leaders  have stressed the critical urgency of climate adaptation. In a meeting of the Friends of the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA), they discussed the acceleration of adaptation solutions ahead of November’s United Nations global climate summit, COP26....

Putting the burden on employees leads to compliance failures

Compliance teams that don’t embed their controls into employee processes face a significantly higher rate of compliance failures, according to a survey by Garner. The survey of 755 employees in April 2021 found these failures linked to unnecessary compliance burdens...

Africans must co-operate to thrive

As growth in developed markets such as Europe, China and North Africa continue to stagnate, greater regional integration among all African role players is needed to capitalise on the continent's growth potential. This is according to Hennie Heymans, CEO of DHL Express...

Why change management is important

A common mistake by many organisations implementing a new IT system is that they don't apply a change management process for the implementation. Seugnet van den Berg, MD at consulting firm Bizmod, says that she often encounters IT departments who don't see the need...

In-app purchases outstrip upfront payments

Mobile app users spend 24% more on in-app transactions than on upfront app payments, according to an online consumer survey by Gartner. Consumer preference for in-app transactions indicates that the flexibility they offer is delivering a better customer experience...

Google wins Java case against Oracle

A US court has found that Google was within its rights to use Java code to build the Android operating system, in a case where Oracle is claiming up to $9-billion for Google's use of the application development platform. Although an earlier case ruled that Oracle did...

Absa debuts social banking on Twitter

Absa has launched ChatBanking, the first service in Africa which allows users to conduct day-to-day banking from their Twitter account, without interrupting their session on the social media website. The secure and private service will eventually be rolled out to...

Call for App of the Year entries

Submissions for the MTN Business SA App of the Year Awards 2016 are now open. The App of the Year Awards is a springboard for creative developers and their original solutions. Previous winners of the awards have gone on to launch their apps internationally, been...

JV invests in African infrastructure

General Electric, together with the Mara Group and Atlas Merchant Capital, are leading an initiative to create a joint venture dedicated to investing in the highly underdeveloped African infrastructure sector. The joint venture will seek to invest in infrastructure...

App-athy drives productivity down

Improving productivity continues to be a priority for many organisations and as such, IT transformation is top of the agenda when it comes to boosting business performance. Wimpie van Rensburg, country manager for sub-Saharan Africa at Riverbed Technology, points to a...

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