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...

Education sector hardest hit by ransomware

Sophos has published the "Sophos State of Ransomware in Education 2021", which looks at the extent and impact of ransomware attacks on educational institutions worldwide during 2020. In the wake of headline grabbing ransomware attacks impacting education, including...

Trickbot still the most wanted malware

Check Point Research (CPR), the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies has published its latest Global Threat Index for June 2021. Researchers report that Trickbot is still the most prevalent malware, having first taken the top spot in May....

African fintech hub set up in Sandton

AlphaCode, a collaborative club for next generation financial services entrepreneurs, has launched in Sandton, offering members a platform to engage and work alongside experienced entrepreneurs, technology investors and industry experts, resulting in accelerated...

Would-be students could look to a trade

Currently the failure rate at universities is sitting around 50%, with many students not suitably prepared for tertiary education. The solution to this dilemma is for youth to consider a career as an artisan, as there is quicker access to full-time employment - with...

SweepSouth cleans up with R10m funding

SweepSouth, the market-leading pioneer in on-demand home cleaning services on the African continent, today announced it has secured R10-million in new funding. The funding comes from the Vumela Fund, as well as from its existing investor, Vinny Lingham and Llew...

Inoxico secures DEG cash injection

African commercial data and counterparty risk services provider in Africa Inoxico has secured funding from the Up-Scaling Program of DEG, a subsidiary of KfW. With the Up-Scaling Program, DEG finances investments of small and medium enterprises that intend to scale up...

Emirates signs up 1m Instagram followers

Emirates continues to engage with its fans far and wide as it becomes the first airline to hit the 1-million follower mark on Instagram. Recently named the world's most valuable airline brand, Emirates launched its Instagram channel in November 2013. In less than...

$100tn the digital dividend by 2025

The "combined value" to society and industry of the digitisation that is already occurring in every industry could generate upwards of $100-trillion over the next 10 years, with society set to gain more than business. However, this transformation also brings with it...

Report highlights risk of Internet fragmentation

Concern has been growing over the past two years that the global public Internet is in danger of splintering into a series of bordered cyberspace segments. Troubling trends have emerged that could endanger the openness and consistency of the Internet's underlying...

Technology can drive future opportunities

CEOs have to turn away from short-term thinking and narrow concern for shareholders and instead take bold steps to improve workers' conditions, promote diversity and take a wider stakeholder perspective. That was the consensus among business, labour and academic...

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