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...

SA uses double the resources Earth can sustain

South Africans are consuming beyond the capacity of Earth's ability to sustain us, using up resources at double the rate at which the Earth's ecosystem can recover. And we have been failing for 51 years. South Africa's Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) falls on 4 July 2021...

Global plan mooted to spur tourism recovery

The dramatic plunge in global tourism due to the Covid-19 pandemic is having far-reaching and devastating effects, particularly for Small States. Now, the Commonwealth Secretariat proposed the development of a global "Tourism Action Plan" to help spur a much-needed...

Advanced threat protection sales take off in 2015

Sales of network advanced threat protection (ATP) solutions, which detect sophisticated malware, reached $194-million worldwide in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), up 7% over 2Q15, and up 53 % over 3Q14. "Network ATP is by far the fastest-growing segment in the...

Security focus to be stepped up in 2016

The growing numbers of high profile hacks is forcing enterprises to focus more on security, particularly in the cloud and BYOD environment. This is according to Perry Hutton, regional director: Africa at Fortinet, who adds that high profile cyber-attacks last year...

2016: technology for the people

This year, the tech landscape will shift its focus to the individual rather than the masses, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. It's that time again - when we look back at the year that has passed and throw our predictions into the ring for what lies...

The many roles of the CIO

Looking to the year ahead, CEOs are expected to serve as experts in a wide range of areas – by their investors, their boards, their employees, and the public. “The CEO position is more complex than it ever has been – and CEOs must have a much broader and deeper skill...

Mobile users top 2bn worldwide

The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that 3,2-billion people, or 44% of the world's population, will have access to the Internet in 2016. Of this number, more than 2-billion will be using mobile devices to do so. Growth in Internet access is taking place...

African countries exposed to cyber-crime

Tanzania was the most attacked country in the world in October, taking a massive jump to 78th position on the list of 140 countries examined in November. Namibia, which was in fifth position last month, has replaced Tanzania to become the most-attacked African nation,...

Euro MPLS to reach $14,63bn

With most enterprises now desiring hybrid network deployments, service providers are designing and implementing networks that integrate multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), Internet and Ethernet. MPLS’ inherent compatibility with different access technologies such as...

Security appliance market on the up

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, the total security appliance market showed positive growth in both vendor revenue and unit shipments for the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15). Worldwide vendor revenues...

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