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 startup uses cloud, AI to improve food security for poultry farmers

Startup, Omniolytics, has turned to IBM to help transform poultry farming through digital platforms that use sensors and IBM Watson running in the IBM Cloud. Omniolytics develops smart farming solutions for emerging and commercial poultry farmers. The local poultry...

Touchless travel for Star Alliance members

Frequent flyer program customers of Star Alliance member airlines will soon be able to use their biometric identity across any participating airline at any participating airport following a new agreement between the world's largest airline alliance, NEC and airline...

Unemployed graduates could get their own businesses

Thirty young graduate garage developers from Khayelitsha and Gugulethu are competing in the MTN SA Foundation Community App Challenge in partnership with mLab for the best apps in the education and health categories. The challenge is aimed at empowering young...

Swift takes on emerging fintech startups

Innotribe, Swift's innovation arm, will expand its programme to support innovation in emerging fintech ecosystems, such as Africa and Latin America. Innotribe will also launch a new initiative that challenges the Swift community to actively collaborate and develop...

Broadcasting Amendment Bill under fire

Opposition parties are up in arms about a Bill tabled on Friday by Minister of Communications Faith Muthambi that would give the government complete control over the public broadcaster, the SABC. The Broadcasting Amendment Bill would remove Parliament's role in the...

SA’s IT spend to top $26,6bn in 2016

IT spending in South Africa will top $26,6-billion in 2016 as organizations increasingly embrace digital transformation initiatives in a bid to streamline their costs and bolster their flexibility. This is according to International Data Corporation (IDC), which has...

Expect cyber-espionage to increase in 2016

2016 is expected to see significant evolution in cyber-espionage tradecraft, according to Kaspersky Lab experts. They believe there will be a dramatic change in how APTs are structured and operated. It is expected to see a decreased emphasis on "persistence", with a...

Nigeria revises new MTN fine upwards

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) appears to have backtracked on a revised fine levied against mobile telecommunications operator MTN, and yesterday raised the amount. On 2 December, MTN received a letter from the NCC to the effect that the fine had been...

Wearables on an upward trajectory

A quarter after Apple debuted as the number two wearables vendor worldwide, Chinese vendor Xiaomi finished the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15) as a strong contender for this position. Similarly, newcomer XTC beat out Samsung as the world's number five wearables vendor....

Tablet shipments set for decline

Worldwide tablet shipments will reach 211,3-million units in 2015, down -8,1% from 2014, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker forecast. The new forecast follows three consecutive quarters of declining worldwide...

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Intermediate Business Analyst – Western Cape Somerset West

To extract, define, structure and transform business and user requirements and associated business processes into a business system representation (business solution model) to support the design, development and qualification of solution systems. Solution systems are...

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