by Dianne Bayley | Mar 15, 2023 | Sustainability
Regulations are not enough to help South Africa move to a circular economy. Without the support of an innovative and well-developed recycling and waste management sector, the country’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Regulations can inadvertently enable...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 14, 2023 | Sustainability
In the wake of the February’s State of the Nation Address and the subsequent budget speech, it’s become clear that the South African government has finally realised something that most people in the sector have known for a long time, notes Matthew Cruise, Head of...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 14, 2023 | Featured Articles
To be competitive today, businesses need to be more agile, efficient, and proactive than ever, a feat that can only be successfully achieved using the enhanced intelligence that digital technologies can help to unlock, writes Navinder Singh, General Manager at In2IT...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 14, 2023 | Security and Legal
The decision announced by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on recently to add South Africa to the international watch dog’s grey list was large expected. In fact, this was the sentiment expressed during a ‘Fighting Fraud and financial Crimes – the Road Ahead’...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 14, 2023 | Sustainability
A recent performance plan by the Department of Tourism indicates that Tourism contributed 8.6% to South Africa’s pre-Covid-19 GDP, writes Leigh Myles, Profitroom’s Business Development Manager for Africa. While the pandemic has significantly reduced that...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 13, 2023 | Security and Legal
In an effort to drive more meaningful voter engagement in Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, Yiaga Africa, a leading non-partisan, non-profit organisation, partnered with Infobip, a global cloud communication company to implement an innovative WhatsApp...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured Articles
The advent of large language models, including ChatGPT, which was launched by Open AI in November 2022, is remarkable, writes Carla Collett, Partner at Webber Wentzel. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot system that interacts with users in real-time and in a conversational way....
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 8, 2023 | Innovation
A study from Juniper Research has found that the number of consumer instant payments will exceed 235-billion in 2027; up from 74-billion in 2023. This growth of 218% will be driven by lower merchant acceptance costs when compared to traditional card schemes.This is of...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 8, 2023 | Innovation
Mobile Internet traffic has almost doubled in the last eight years with close to two-thirds of Web traffic coming from mobile devices, according to data from CasinoEnLigne.com, which adds that mobile phones made up 59% of total Web traffic last year – nearly 10% more...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 7, 2023 | Innovation
At Tesla’s Investor Day in March 2023, it announced that its next generation of electric motors would contain no rare earth materials. Given Tesla’s huge presence in the EV (electric vehicle) market, this could prove a significant transition for the design and...
