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...

Ostrich industry gets smart decision-making tool

The Ostrich Slaughter Planner, a smart technology tool developed by the Western Cape Department of Agriculture in response to the industry's need to streamline recordkeeping, planning, and issuing of permits for the slaughter of ostriches at the abattoirs, was...

South Africans still excluded from financial services

Kathy Gibson reports - The South African financial market is a paradox in that a majority of people have bank accounts, but 80% of them don't have access to financial services. Khulekani Mathe, head of financial inclusion at the Banking Association South Africa,...

Flat growth forecast for global IT spend

Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3,54-trillion dollars in 2016, just a 0,6% increase over 2015 spending of $3,52-trillion dollars, according to Gartner. 2015 saw the largest US dollar drop in IT spending since Gartner began tracking IT spending....

Consumers key to African growth

Consumer spending by a fast-growing middle class is as important a growth driver for Africa as mineral and resource demand, according to a new survey of global logistics executives. In the survey, which is part of the 2016 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index,...

Internet takes over job search

Every year, nearly 20% of workers around the world change jobs - and 55% of those people find their new positions through Internet job search sites. That finding, from a new report, "Job Seeker Trends 2015: Channels, Search Time, and Income Change", jointly produced...

Seacom, Ciena partner on enhanced capacity

Local Internet service providers (ISPs) will benefit from increased reached and enhanced capacity thanks to a partnership between Seacom and network provider Ciena. The companies will deliver new network solutions and a 100G upgrade to service providers across the...

First Africa Code Week winner named

The Cape Town Science Centre, global co-ordinator for Africa Code Week 2016, has announced the first recipient of the Africa Code Week Youth Ambassadors Award - 13-year-old Esihle Yokwana will be presented with her award and prize (a new laptop with Internet access)...

WEF delegates warned about cyber-spies

As the World Economic Forum in Davos approaches, Kaspersky Lab experts want to warn attendees about the risk of cyber-espionage attacks using malware designed for mobile devices. Many of the cyber-espionage groups investigated by Kaspersky Lab experts in recent years...

What to expect from wireless charging in 2016

Wireless charging in the iPhone, tri-modal receivers and the one-millionth public charger unit shipment are all realistic expectations for the wireless charging market in 2016. With the wireless power industry setting strategies for 2016 and beyond, IHS has listed...

Behind the NSFAS grant figures

In the midst of fanfare about emergency grants and increased funding; Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande has promised that the number of poor and working class students whose fees will be paid out of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme's (NSFAS) annual...

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