As African CEOs embrace AI, ROI is still elusive

By Kathy Gibson - African companies are in the middle of learning and adopting artificial intelligence (AI), and adapting to the changes it brings. But they are also looking beyond adoption at how to measure value from their AI investments, says Ladi Asuni, partner...

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...

African decision-makers take cyber security seriously

Over 90% of IT decision makers across South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe have accelerated their cyber security efforts due to the substantial emergence of digital ways of working. This is according to the latest 2021 research undertaken by Liquid Intelligent...

More urgency needed to limit climate change damage

Organisations and citizens are in a race against time to rapidly reduce their carbon footprint and reverse - or at least limit - the ravages of human-caused climate change. As South Africa celebrates Arbor Week from 1 to 7 September, there has arguably never been...

Address Africa’s risk to drive investment

Africa needs to address perceptions of risk on the continent to help investors understand what its markets have to offer, and develop success stories that highlight the capability of Africa's people and institutions to deliver complex projects, quality local content...

New applications drive wearables market

A combination of device releases, price reductions, and company rationalisations marked the first quarter of 2016 (1Q16) in the worldwide wearables market. According to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker,...

Young scientists show the way

Teenager Han Jie (Austin) Wang, an 18-year-old from Vancouver, Canada, is the recipient of the first place Gordon E Moore Award and $75 000 for developing microbial fuel cells (MFCs) that more efficiently convert organic waste into electricity. The award was given at...

Africa must move to smarter power mix

Africa has no choice but to move rapidly towards a smart mix of energy systems if it is to grow and prosper in step with the rest of the world. This is the word from Jubril Adewale Tinubu, group chief executive of Nigeria's Oando, speaking at the World Economic Forum...

Smartphone growth flat in China

According to International Data Corporation (IDC), 102,6-million smartphones were shipped to China in the first quarter of 2016 - a mere 2% year-on-year growth in 2016Q1 that saw the China smartphone market becoming increasingly saturated and driven mostly by...

Aviation’s future is green …

The future of aviation is bright ... green. That was the environmentally-promising message delivered during the Green Aviation Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM), held recently at NASA Langley Research Centre. More than 100 attendees from government, industry and...

Data key to Vodacom growth

Vodacom, which now boasts 34,2-million South African customers, has seen dramatic growth in its data revenues for the year ended 31 March 2016. Shameel Joosub, group CEO of Vodacom, comments: "I am very pleased with our performance this year, with strong execution of...

Hyperconvergence ready for the mainstream

The market for hyperconverged integrated systems (HCIS) will grow 79% to reach almost $2-billion in 2016, propelling it toward mainstream use in the next five years, according to Gartner. HCIS will be the fastest-growing segment of the overall market for integrated...

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