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...

PC demand remains strong

The surge in PC demand continued through the second quarter of 2021 (2Q21) despite global component shortages and logistics issues. Worldwide shipments of Traditional PCs, inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, reached 83,6-million units in 2Q21, up 13,2%...

Employer roles on mandatory vaccination rollouts

Employers considering putting a mandatory Covid-19 vaccination policy in place need to take several factors into account, including appropriate steps if an employee refuses, write Dhevarsha Ramjettan and Shane Johnson from Webber Wentzel. Employers are currently faced...

SMEs thrive in Grindstone programme

Investment company Knife Capital's entrepreneurial leadership programme, Grindstone, has concluded its second intake with the participating companies experiencing explosive business growth. The year-long programme takes businesses with proven traction through an...

Vodacom hopes for level OTT playing field

Some kind of regulation pertaining to over the top (OTT) services has been on the cards for some time, and recent moves by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee to start discussions around the subject are not necessarily the result of lobbying. There has been some...

New Intel processor embeds speed, security

Intel has announced the availability of its 6th Generation Intel Core vPro processor family for the modern workforce. The latest iteration of Intel Core vPro processors addresses the security and productivity demands of large businesses with new innovations in...

5m jobs will be lost by 2020

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes developments in previously disjointed fields such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, and genetics and biotechnology, will cause widespread disruption not only to...

Beware a job applicant’s murky past

Well over a tenth of South Africans who apply for jobs have a criminal record - and a fair proportion of them have more than one. This is one of the findings from the Annual Screening Report Findings for 2015 from EMPS, South Africa's oldest background screening...

Cell C CEO says OTT regulation is about profits

MTN and Vodacom have declared war on consumer interests, according to Cell C CEO Jose dos Santos, who writes the following: "The infamous duopoly wants to limit how we use Internet services like WhatsApp - and it has nothing to do with fairness, competition or the...

Software prices spike as rand plummets

International accounting software vendors will soon feel the effect of the plummeting rand as local businesses consider cheaper options. Software prices have already increased by 40% and will continue to rise as the rand weakens, according to Palladium Business...

Fujitsu technology speeds IoT authentication

Fujitsu Laboratories is in the news again, this time announcing a development in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and Toho University of authentication technology for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that reduces the time needed for authentication in the...

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