Digital Transformation
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Microsoft Launches New Office for “African Transformation,” Names Director
Image sourced from NS Energy. Microsoft, the worldwide tech giant is establishing the Africa Transformation Office as part of doubling down on its investment in the continent, as well as an effort to continue enabling digital transformation “powered by Africans for Africa.” The company has also announced that the Africa Transformation Office (ATO) will be headed by the new Managing Director (MD) Wael Elkabbany. In a statement, Microsoft says that under Elkabbany’s leadership, the ATO will partner with public and private organisations to empower millions of Africans and foster economic prosperity. Wael Elkabbany, MD for Microsoft’s Africa Transformation Office. Elkabbany moves from leading enterprise sales for the company across the Middle East and Africa, and previously held roles at Briti...
Areas of Focus for Healthcare Organisations When Securing Digital Transformation
The healthcare industry has been forever changed by digital transformation. Innovation in the medical space has led to advances in new treatments as well as cost savings that do not negatively impact the quality of care. The added benefit: faster, better networks have allowed for the growth of telemedicine, bringing quality care to thousands who did not have access before. An unfortunate side effect has been that cybercriminals are targeting the healthcare sector now more than ever. As a result, cybersecurity is critical to the success of health systems, which are increasingly at risk as cyber criminals look to steal patient data or hold internal resources for ransom. The vulnerabilities that enable these attacks exist in any vertical, but in the case of healthcare, they can be life-threat...
South Africa Has a New AI-Powered Digital Transformation Advisor
Sourced from UC Today. An innovative local software development partnership between 4Sight Holdings and Bidvest Advisory Services has created 4MIA powered by ALICE TM, a first-of-its-kind AI-powered automated digital transformation advisor. Developed on the ALICE TM platform, the intelligent predictive solution Monitors, Investigates and Advises (MIA) business and technology executives on critical aspects related to their digital transformation roadmaps. Decision-makers can now leverage the 4MIA’s automated proactive monitoring and reporting to gain greater visibility into their IT environment with real-time insights related to digital transformation readiness. “As digital technologies and competitor capabilities rapidly evolve, business leaders and executives must constantly assess and ev...
Why Traditional CVs Need to Go Digital
Image sourced from intelligentplacement.co.za. The use of digital recruitment tools by businesses is paramount in closing the skills gap and tackling the country’s ever-increasing unemployment rate. As the use of these tools expands across industries and sectors, the traditional CV will fast become unnecessary for local job seekers. Xpatweb’s Annual Critical Skills 2020/2021 survey found that 77% of employers are struggling to recruit critically skilled resources. “Traditional recruitment tools reduce the process to tick-boxing and could be the reason that many local businesses are struggling to find the necessary talent to fill available job roles,” says Mat Conn, Group CRO for BPO provider, Merchants. “South Africa has a high supply of entry-level talent, often with limited experience – ...
There’s Only 1 Option Left for SA’s Transport Sector
Image sourced from MSI.org. The transport sector’s only option to keep up is through digitalisation, Gautrain Management Agency (GMA) COO Tshepo Kgobe told delegates attending the Huawei Connect 2021 Transportation Summit held in the midst of Transport Month in South Africa. This is as rapid population growth and increased urbanisation will continue to have significant impacts on South Africa’s transport infrastructure as freight and passenger transport demand rise. A GMA study conducted in 2019 found that by 2025 Gauteng’s roads would be so congested that traffic on the freeway would slow down to 10 kilometres an hour. This means that it will take four hours to travel from Pretoria to the city centre in Johannesburg. “The transport sector needs to heed the call for digitalisation within t...
Why Digitisation is Key to Rescue SA’s Water Infrastructure
Image sourced from Prime Media. South Africa’s water system is in trouble. In the 2020/21 financial year alone, there were over 55,800 pipe bursts, over a third of reservoirs have supply problems, and years of underfunding of infrastructure replacement and maintenance have drastically reduced the lifespan of around a quarter of the country’s asset base. If there’s one lesson we can take from South Africa’s electricity crisis, it’s that we can’t wait until it’s too late before we act. And yet, it nearly is too late. By 2025, South Africa is expected to experience water scarcity. By 2030, a water deficit. With the rapid increase in urbanisation and the rising demand for our water infrastructure, we don’t have the luxury of time. There’s a sense of urgency that we must jump on now, ...
Businesses Need to Be “Data Driven” for True Digital Transformation says Altron
Image sourced from Planful. Over and above leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud services; it has been widely acknowledged that the key building block for true digital transformation is the need for businesses to become data-driven. Of course, this is a uniquely challenging task for almost every business. Dealing with the Data Challenge At the core of any data strategy lies the need to fully manage and exploit data as a strategic asset throughout its entire life-cycle across the enterprise. This has proven easy for companies born in the cloud, but inherently challenging for organisations that are not. Becoming data-driven requires the will, capacity, resources and discipline to rethink how a business operates from people to processes as well as the technology that glues these e...
Arthur Goldstuck to Speak at IT News Africa’s Free E-Waste & IT Sustainability Webinar
Register now: https://itnewsafrica.com/events/event/optimise-and-embrace-the-circular-economy/ According to the UN Global E-Waste Monitor, global e-waste will reach 74 metric tonnes by 2030, an increase from the 50-million tonnes of e-waste we have to deal with today. Time is officially running out as the UN’s 2030 deadline for Sustainable Development rapidly approaches and in just 9 years there will no longer be a tolerance for e-waste in the value chain. Sustainability in the IT industry is simply no longer a buzzword, but a new way of life that organisations need to adopt in order to curb the harmful effects of climate change, and the world’s growing e-waste problem that continues to be fuelled by higher electric and electronic consumption rates, as well as shorter hardware lifecycles a...
How Tech Will Drive New Job Opportunities in South Africa
There is no doubt that the pandemic has accelerated most digitalisation trends, compressing what was expected to take years into months. And this has been applauded by the technology industry and business alike, with, for instance, even the most cloud-skeptical CEO appreciating technology’s ability to ensure business continuity as we rapidly shifted to a distributed workplace. But, when counterpointed with South Africa’s latest unemployment figures and sluggish GDP, it is not unexpected for people to have concerns over the impact of digitalisation on job availability. According to Statistics South Africa, unemployment rates in the first quarter of 2021 were at a record high of 32.6%, with a rate of a staggering 46.3% among people aged 15 to 34 years old. But the fact of the matter is digit...
New Vodafone & UN Initiative to Give 3.4-Billion Access to a Smartphone by 2030
A new global initiative has been launched by Vodafone Group and ITU, the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies, to address the global digital divide. The initiative aims for an additional 3.4 billion people to have the ability to access and use the internet through a smartphone by 2030. The Digital Divide With mobile broadband (4G) networks now covering 82% of the population of Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), the mobile usage gap is 6x larger than the mobile coverage gap (2) In line with the Broadband Commission Global Targets 2025 on affordability and connectivity, the new Working Group will identify policy, commercial and circular-economy interventions to increase smartphone access. Co-chaired by Vodafone Group CEO, Nick Read, and ITU ...
2 in 3 Banks Will Lose Market Share Unless They Digitise says Report
Image sourced from Planful. A new report by The Financial Times Focus and Mambu shows banks must redesign their role in society to avoid extinction. More than two thirds (67%) of banks think they will lose market share within two years if they fail to digitally transform, according to a new report from cloud banking platform Mambu and The Financial Times Focus (FT Focus). The ‘Evolve or be extinct’ report was conducted by FT Focus and surveyed over 500 senior banking executives globally to gain insights into their perception of the banking industry, now and in the future. Banks Must Transform Urgently The results illustrate the urgency for banks to modernise their offering as 58% of respondents predict they will cease to exist completely in the next five to ten years if they fail to change...
