Author: Langa Dube
South Africa faces significant challenges providing wider access to healthcare. The World Bank places South Africa’s doctor resources at 0.8 per 1 000 people – well below those of fellow BRICS nations Brazil (2.3) and Russia (3.8). Technology offers many potential solutions to this life-threatening challenge, but perhaps the most exciting and promising of these is the Metaverse; a single, shared, immersive, persistent, virtual space, where people can experience life in ways vastly different to the physical world. Bloomberg estimates the global metaverse market could approach $800 billion by 2024, and $2.5 trillion by 2030. Standing at the convergence of cutting-edge…
Cloud is already part of modern business. But many South African enterprises are only using a fraction of its capabilities. For these businesses, the key to future-proofing their operations may lie in embracing the technology’s full potential: Cloud 2.0. Cloud has become accepted as an indispensable part of modern business technology during the pandemic. It delivered unprecedented computing power, scalability, cost efficiencies and low latency by moving organisations’ technology off site, into a serverless Cloud environment. This not only led to safer work during the lockdown months; it also drove better customer experiences. Businesses realised Cloud gave them resilience against power…
The racetrack has long been the R&D incubator for the combustion engine and the same is proving true in the electronic vehicle (EV) sector. We at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), now in our second season as the title and technology consulting partner for the Jaguar TCS Racing Formula E team, are combining the power of sport with technology to transform the future of sustainable mobility. TCS is developing digital technology that will help Jaguar TCS Racing drive top performance on the racetrack, and – using the data and insights learned for adoption by electronic road vehicles – transform the entire…