WeThinkCode_ conference plots a path towards sustainable digital skills
Sweden's ambassador to South Africa, Håkan Juholt was the keynote speaker at WeThinkCode_'s Future of Digital Skills Conference. The event was hosted a day after WeThinkCode_ won the award for Top Women Business in Skills Development at the 2022 Standard Bank Top...
SA loses billions to poor quality software
South African businesses are losing billions of rands due to poor quality software. And, as the economy tightens and skills remain scarce, this is likely to get worse, forcing them to pay to fix avoidable problems and resulting in stalled growth. According to the...
Cisco advances API-first strategy to empower developers
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a foundational technology for building and connecting applications. They help developers easily build digital experiences using proven services instead of building them from scratch. This allows businesses to better adapt...
Red Hat, IBM Research advance IT automation with AI
Red Hat and IBM Research have announced Project Wisdom, a community project to create an intelligent, natural language processing capability for Ansible and the IT automation industry. Using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, the project aims to boost the...
All the MTN Business App of the Year winners
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses and gaps in South Africa's digital economy, setting in motion a reaction that has seen citizens, corporates and small businesses ramping up on digital innovation. Both the public and private sectors responded swiftly to the...
Low code platforms help businesses and kids work with AI
Low-code and no-code solutions are increasingly gaining traction in the face of severe and ongoing skills shortages in the tech sector - and they're also changing how children are taught to code. "We use our own low-code platform to build and manage virtual agents for...
How businesses can use low code to enable and empower teams
Most entrepreneurs understand how important it is to constantly be innovating and building new products. But doing that the traditional way can be incredibly time- and resource-intensive, writes Hyther Nizam, president MEA of Zoho. Even if you have the investment and...
Recognise the potential of a composable DXP
Today, application leaders and marketers need to do away with monolithic digital experience platforms and make use of solutions that give them the option to choose the bits and pieces that suit them best. By Nick Durrant, co-founder and MD of Bluegrass Digital At the...
Investing in software development skills a strategic imperative
Rather than being concentrated in certain industries, coding is crucial across the economy, writes Jessica Hawkey, MD of redAcademy. The highest unemployment rate in the world, where almost three in five youth are unemployed, and a crippling skills shortage -...
AIOps: turn noise into actionable IT operational data
Through identifying and understanding patterns in massive diverse sets of machine data, businesses can equip themselves to find, fix, and prevent performance problems within their organisation. This is the word from Dave Link, founder and CEO of ScienceLogic, which...
Ecobank opens 2022 fintech challenge with $50k up for grabs
Ecobank Group has launched the fifth edition of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge and encourages African fintech entrepreneurs to enter the competition. Fintechs that are aligned with the bank's strategic objectives stand a chance to win an overall cash prize of $50 000...
Hackathons exposed more than 1200 kids to AI
Edtech startup Mindjoy reached more than 1 200 children between the ages of 11 and 15 during the July and August winter breaks with its artificial intelligence (AI) hackathons. Hackathons were hosted by 14 schools in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and the Western Cape, as...