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Gamification: improving service delivery in digital business
Gamification: improving service delivery in digital business
The term 'gamification' is the industry's latest buzzword. Used extensively as a marketing term, it has become part of the IT lexicon... read
Cape Town woman brings coding skills to marginalised communities
Cape Town woman brings coding skills to marginalised communities

A local woman who launched a project in partnership with SAP and Google, trained over 1,000 young people in basic coding skills... Read

Productivity-enabling tech - what remote workers want
Productivity-enabling tech - what remote workers want

Chris Buchanan

There was a time when we envisioned a future in which employers used technology as an ever-watchful eye, frightening workers into maximum productivity... Read

South African nanosatellite to launch from International Space Station
South African nanosatellite to launch from International Space Station

A nanosatellite designed and built in South Africa will be launched early next year from the International Space Station... Read


Entrepreneur Month
The benefits of a bite-sized business
The benefits of a bite-sized business

Gary Turner

Everybody has different reasons for starting a business. Some simply like being their own boss, some are bent on dominating a particular industry... read
#EntrepreneurMonth: Madoda Khuzwayo's lessons in entrepreneurship
#EntrepreneurMonth: Madoda Khuzwayo's lessons in entrepreneurship

Leigh Andrews

Inventor, educator and tech entrepreneur, Madoda Khuzwayo is one of the two selected brand ambassadors for Rémy Martin's latest advertising campaign that calls for South Africans to live their lives to the fullest. He shares his top tips and says SA is simply not creating enough entrepreneurs... read
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ICT
Digital change begins with business leadership
Digital change begins with business leadership

Saurabh Kumar

Digital transformation is a powerful revolution that needs to happen in order to accelerate business activities, skills and models... read
Progress, but uphill slog for women in tech
Progress, but uphill slog for women in tech
They are under-represented in the industry and sometimes made to feel unwelcome in geek-infested workspaces... read
Five factors behind digital transformation success
Five factors behind digital transformation success

Jonas Bogoshi

Digital transformation is having a huge impact on every aspect of the way we work, live and learn. Big data, social, cloud computing... read
City of Johannesburg delivers on creating permanent employment for unemployed graduates in the ICT sector
City of Johannesburg delivers on creating permanent employment for unemployed graduates in the ICT sector

Issued by COJEDI

The City of Johannesburg hosted its first graduation ceremony on Wednesday, 9 November, at the Johannesburg City Hall for its ICT youth initiative, the City of Johannesburg Educating Digital Interns (C.O.J.E.D.I) programme. read
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ICT sector performing poorly in transformation
The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector is not doing well in terms of transformation... read
App and website development
CiTi to host R1m serious games challenge in CPT
CiTi to host R1m serious games challenge in CPT

Tom Jackson

The Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) is to host a serious games competition that will reward the best game for reimagining communities... read
Vodacom app launched to boost small business
Vodacom app launched to boost small business
Lack of funding is regularly cited as one of the major contributors to the widely accepted statistic that 80% of South Africa's small businesses fail... read
Cloud Computing
Middle East, Africa cloud traffic to be 86% of total data centre traffic by 2020
Middle East, Africa cloud traffic to be 86% of total data centre traffic by 2020
Cisco yesterday released its Global Cloud Index (2015-2020), which reveals that global cloud traffic is expected to rise 3.7-fold... read
Cyber Security
ZA Domains introduces lowest cost RapidSSL Certificates in South Africa
ZA Domains introduces lowest cost RapidSSL Certificates in South Africa

Issued by ZA Domains

ZA Domains is proud to announce that it provides RapidSSL Certificates for R144.00 per certificate per year... read
Data Management
PoPI Act: neither friend nor foe - just good business sense
PoPI Act: neither friend nor foe - just good business sense

Mike Rees

The Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI) has been the cause of much concern in the South African business landscape... read
Network
How mobile operators can handle the growing appetite for data
How mobile operators can handle the growing appetite for data

Dale Engelbrecht

The 21st century has been declared the era of mobile communications, and appropriately so. In 2014, the total number of connected mobile devices... read
Services
Why SA's reluctance to use self-service tech is a positive for businesses
Why SA's reluctance to use self-service tech is a positive for businesses

Adam Manuel

Self-service technology has gone a long way during the last decade. With the advent of social media and smartphones... read
Upturn in SA's IT services market
Upturn in SA's IT services market
The SA IT services market is expected to grow at 10.3% in 2016 following a bumper 2015 where it reached a value of R56.9 billion... read
Software
IoT in Africa - Signaling traffic burning up mobile radio resources
IoT in Africa - Signaling traffic burning up mobile radio resources

Ofer Gottfried

IoT is already deeply embedded in Africa's industrial and commercial infrastructure. Because Africa doesn't have the same extensive legacy applications... read
Technology
Top500 research reveals who are the movers and shakers for 2016
Top500 research reveals who are the movers and shakers for 2016

Issued by Topco Media

What is happening in the economy, who are the export giants - and where they are exporting to... read
Innovation through technology a powerful modus operandi for organisational success
Innovation through technology a powerful modus operandi for organisational success

Issued by Topco Media

South Africa, as one of several African countries striving for leadership in innovation, is committed to providing a firm foundation for companies actively looking to harness the latest technology breakthroughs... read
True value of IoT lies in it being the Internet of Humans
True value of IoT lies in it being the Internet of Humans

Richard Barry

The Internet of Things (IoT) has caused unprecedented hype among technologists, software developers, futurists and industrialists... read
Telecommunications
ISPA calls on MNOs to enable competition
ISPA calls on MNOs to enable competition
South Africa's mobile network operators should reduce data prices by launching genuine wholesale service offerings... read
MTN ups network sites to cut outages
MTN ups network sites to cut outages

Dineo Tsamela

In a bid to avoid the recurrence of the network outage MTN experienced in 2016, the group has been setting up more LTE and 3G sites... read
Business
#WDD: Strides made in diabetic research
#WDD: Strides made in diabetic research

Elaine Bergenthuin

There were an estimated 2,28m diagnosed cases of diabetes in South Africa in 2015... read
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