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...

Cyberattacks and threats continue to break records

We should be prepared for a further increase in cyberattacks, which could be partly down to major powers leaking cyber superweapons, according to Check Point Research. "We have long warned that organisations of all sizes are being bombarded by a global, fifth...

Huge growth for global public cloud services market

The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 40,7% in 2020 to total $64,3-billion, up from $45,7-billion in 2019, according to Gartner. Amazon retained the number one position in the IaaS market in 2020, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and...

Consumers add on more personal devices

During the next five years, consumers will add more devices to their personal portfolio rather than consolidating it, according to Gartner. By 2018, a consumer in a mature market will use and own more than three personal devices. Gartner estimates that in 2016, the...

E-government makes way for digital government

Most governments have already picked the low-hanging fruit of single-function "fix my pothole" applications, and will need to stretch higher to deliver integrated, citizen-focused services, according to global analyst firm Ovum. In the new "2016 Trends to Watch report...

Africa beckons for SA e-commerce

According to a recent study conducted by Ipsos, cross-border shopping is a growing trend with around 80% of shoppers going international when purchasing goods online. In Nigeria an impressive 47% of the online spend is already taken internationally, while in South...

Innovator wins with hearing screening solution

The hearScreen mHealth solution has been named as the first winner of Philip's South Africa's Innovation Fellows Competition. The competition was launched in August this year in collaboration with the Innovation Hub in Pretoria, with the goal of unlocking local talent...

‘Anaemic’ growth for wireless networking

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 2.1% year over year in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15). According to the results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN...

Smart cities will drive IoT trend

About 1,6-billion connected things will be used by smart cities in 2016, an increase of 39% from 2015, according to Gartner. "Smart commercial buildings will be the highest user of Internet of Things (IoT) until 2017, after which smart homes will take the lead with...

Consumers warned to spend wisely

While credit-active consumers have showed signs of better debt management over the past two quarters, credit bureau Compuscan warns that consumers should not neglect careful credit management during the festive season. According to Compuscan's data that formed part of...

4,9m patients worldwide are remotely monitored

The number of remotely monitored patients grew by 51% to 4,9-million in 2015 as the market entered a growth phase fuelled by rising market acceptance in several key verticals. This number includes all patients enrolled in m-health care programmes in which connected...

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