Into the future with frontier technologies
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex Africa Morocco 2024 – Humanity is facing an existential crisis as planet-wide issues like climate change threaten to cause irreparable damage. But frontier technologies are already on the drawing board that could reverse the damage...
New report to inform policy changes for 400m young Africans
Caribou Digital, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, has released a new report on young African people and their digital technology experiences - Youth in Digital Africa: Our connections. Our Choices. Our future. The report, a compilation of personal...
Africa keeps position of second-fastest growing region in the world
African economies remain resilient, despite challenges that are testing economies worldwide. According to the latest African Development Bank Group’s African Economic Outlook, 41 countries on the continent are projected to experience stronger growth rates in 2024 than...
ITAD enables eco-conscious IT management
Environmental sustainability is more important than ever. Businesses are increasingly turning to IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) to align their IT hardware management with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors. Xperien CEO Wale Arewa says ITAD plays a...
Goodbye cloud-first approach, hello deliberately hybrid strategy
The unforeseen results of the fallacy that businesses must take a cloud-first approach are now coming home to roost. This is according to Ahmed Mahomed, CEO at Datacentrix, who explains that, because cloud adoption had to be expedited due to the pandemic, many...
Is your business legally ready for cybercriminals’ AI onslaught?
Across the globe, organisations of all sizes are exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI, in particular, can benefit their businesses. But while they are still trying to figure out how best to use AI, cybercriminals have fully embraced it. By...
PMI dips to 43.8 amid election uncertainty, sluggish demand
The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell below 50 points in May 2024. The headline PMI fell to 43.8 points from 54 points in April. The drop was despite another month of no load-shedding, although local power outages remain frequent, and the...
Done right, prompt engineering can slash development time
The rise of prompt engineering has given software developers a unique opportunity to drive efficiencies. But only if they have the right skills to properly define requests, are very clear about how they manage the process, and formulate ruthlessly transparent policies...
Webb finds most distant known galaxy
Over the last two years, scientists have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to explore what astronomers refer to as Cosmic Dawn - the period in the first few hundred million years after the big bang where the first galaxies were born. These galaxies...
Online election reflections
Voter education, long queues at voting stations, and the spread of misinformation and disinformation aimed at undermining the integrity of the IEC were among the main talking points online during the election period between 24 and 31 May. According to a report by the...
The SARB roadmap to digital payments
On 18 April 2024, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) published its digital payments roadmap. By Lerato Lamola, partner at Webber Wentzel The document entitled Digital Payments Roadmap: Towards Inclusive, Accessible, Effective and Sustainable Digital Payments in...
Senior Oracle Cloud Database Engineer (LW2509)
We are seeking a highly skilled and analytical Cloud Database Engineer to join our team. In this critical role, you will be responsible for migrating our on-premises workloads to databases hosted on OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), Azure, and AWS platforms. As a...