Technology

Ask a CIO where IT Strategy sits within an organisation, and you’ll likely receive the answer “in IT”. Yet, this may no longer be...

Bruce von Maltitz | Co-founder and Joint CEO | 1Stream | bruce@1Stream.co.za | www.1stream.co.za | Where do humans fit in a world of digital personal assistants? The fourth...

Is your business ready for the day everything has a sensor? One day in the very near future, we will wonder how we ever survived...

No one should get away with fraud. Information that is carefully hidden or deleted can be identified and disclosed! From intentionally erased emails to deleted...

You know what shoppers are doing online – but do you know what they are doing in-store? Consumers are increasingly using digital technology to assist...

The future of business is in the cloud. That is the message from global analysts as the latest IT sales figures show a marked shift away from hardware. The shift to cloud services and other Digital Business solutions has slashed Gartner's global IT spending growth forecasts by half: a cut of $67bn for this year alone, with data centre growth predicted at a modest 0.3% in 2017.

This week (25 May 2017) at BotCon in Cape Town, South African developers and enterprises will showcase some of the ways they’re putting the newest artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to work. Some of the latest developments are a little scary, especially for those who have grown up with rogue AI and robots in science fiction or have read the headlines about how we will lose millions of jobs worldwide to automation by 2020.

Mobile is outpacing traditional marketing channels. It is happening now! Should marketers adopt this medium? Given the mobile phone’s central role in people’s lives, it’s worth asking whether brands and agencies in Africa are investing enough in mobile advertising and marketing.

Technology is advancing much more quickly than most people anticipated even a decade ago. This begs the question as to whether or not our social, economic and political institutions and structures are equipped, or have developed sufficiently, to deal with the ethical and legal challenges that these advancements have brought and are ever more rapidly bringing.

As the world has become more connected, so too it has become more vulnerable. As more data is regularly exchanged between employees, clients, and suppliers as well as families and friends - using technologies that were designed to share information, not to protect it - we must realise that there is a greater need for more human involvement and understanding when it comes to the use of technology.