Electronic signatures key in digital economy

With the increasing digitisation of businesses, a new solution for document signing is required. The old method involving paper, ink, postal services and couriers is simply too slow and cumbersome to deal with the velocity of information that an organisation needs to...

SA microjobbing site shapes digital economy

M4JAM (Money for Jam) is taking part in a research study conducted by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), in an effort to better understand the digital economy and the societal implications of network technologies. The study is taking place across sub-Saharan Africa...

How SMEs can move to the digital economy

For small and midsize businesses to advance into the digital economy, three things are necessary: vision on the part of business leaders; dependable technology; and trust in that technology. This is the word from Joe McKendrick, contributor to Forbes Insights, writing...

Increased IT spend to drive digital economy

Worldwide IT spending is projected to surpass $3,9-trillion in 2015, a 3,9% increase from 2014, and much of this spending will be driven by the digital industrial economy, according to Gartner. The impact that the digital business economy is having on the IT industry...