by Dianne Bayley | Jan 16, 2021 | Sustainability
Gone are the days when small businesses need to sell their products to just the people who live or work in the immediate vicinity, writes Kevin South, head of digital and customer experience at Seacom. Digital platforms and partnerships are now empowering...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 15, 2021 | Security and Legal
While it was already under way prior to the pandemic, the global shift to digital payments has been positively affected by the crisis. According to the research data analysed and published by Finnish website Sijoitusrahastot, the global digital payments market grew by...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 15, 2021 | Sustainability
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) has submitted its preliminary Critical Skills List to the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) for review. “The list is publicly available from the DHET’s website and companies should start reviewing it in...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the last five years data management has evolved from a closed environment, where each department would store and manage its own data, to data being managed in disparate silos across an entire organisation, writes Hemant Harie, Managing Director at Gabsten...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 10, 2021 | Security and Legal
2021 will bring aggressive cybercrime activity as criminals pivot their attacks from data encryption to data exfiltration. Data exfiltration is a form of a security breach that occurs when an individual’s or company’s data is copied, transferred, or retrieved from a...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 7, 2021 | Innovation
2020 was a year unlike any other, writes Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon. Businesses large and small, governments new and old, all had to completely change what they do and how they operate. Helping us to manage this dramatic change was technology. Whether it was...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
2020 was an unprecedented year. How we live, work and interact has fundamentally changed and the repercussions of 2020 will be felt for years to come. So, with unpredictability and uncertainty set to remain key fixtures in people’s lives but with hope now on the...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 5, 2021 | Sustainability
5G technology global coverage will grow by 253,84% in the next five years. By 2025, about 53% of the global population at 4,14-billion will have access to technology, according to data presented by Bankr. By 2021, the network coverage will reach an estimated...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 5, 2021 | Sustainability
1 January 2021 marked the start of preferential trade for South Africa under two new trade agreements: the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) and with the UK under the SACU, Mozambique-UK Economic Partnership Agreement. South Africa has put in place the...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 3, 2021 | Innovation
Okay, so 2020 was a year not many of us will want all over again, writes Esti Kilian, head of business development and marketing at Itec SA. And yet, it was a year in which the tech industry came into its own, and learned lessons about adaptability, resilience and...
