Browsing: Opinion

By Paul Wani Lado The Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Bill currently being considered by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Mineral Resources…

Business has every interest in seeing universal health coverage in South Africa, but it must be sustainable, and provided in a…

by Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, University of Birmingham The recent news that BT would reduce its workforce by as many as 55,000…

by Nello Cristianini, University of Bath This week a group of well-known and reputable AI researchers signed a statement consisting…

by Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University Takeaways: A new federal agency to regulate AI sounds helpful but could become unduly…

by Anirban Basu, University of Washington Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the…

There has been a lot of talk around the corner about PayShap – the new super-fast, low-cost payment rail which…

by Gale Sinatra, University of Southern California and Barbara K. Hofer, Middlebury Until very recently, if you wanted to know…

Money on blockchains is inevitable. The component pieces are the regulations, the technology and the behaviour. The regulations and the…

The modern world is flush with technology jargon, and new ones keep entering our lexicon: Digital Transformation, the Fourth Industrial…

The telecommunications industry is in the midst of a digital revolution; one shifting from providing traditional communications services to becoming…

The biggest misconception about cybersecurity any company can have is; “We’ll never come under attack”. The world’s rapid digitisation means…

by Milovan Savic, Swinburne University of Technology Montana has made an unprecedented move to become the first US state to…

Digital Telecommunications, also known as telecom, is a broad term that defines the exchange of information over long distances. Telecom…

by Pawan Jain, West Virginia University Artificial Intelligence-powered tools, such as ChatGPT, have the potential to revolutionize the efficiency, effectiveness…

The 2022 SITEisfaction® survey emphasises the need for digital inclusivity in digital banking for clients, stating that banks should empower…

Our financial decisions are consequential, it makes sense to have a trusted expert in our corner. However, it’s important to…

by Jenny Whilde, University of Florida and Jessica Alice Farrell, University of Florida Human DNA can be sequenced from small…

by Thapelo Tselapedi, Rhodes University Relations between the People’s Republic of China and Russia on one hand and the west,…

Blink and you will miss it – at times, the rapid rate at which tech is changing our lives can…

by Alan Christoffels, University of the Western Cape and Sofonias Kifle Tessema Infectious disease outbreaks in African countries are, unfortunately,…

Who still uses passwords like Pass.123, your spouse’s name followed by an @, or even the dreaded 1111? Or you…

by Eden Kamar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Christian Jordan Howell, University of South Florida There has been a tenfold…

South African consumers are in a fragile state – emotionally, psychologically, and financially. The state of our economy, soaring interest…

As Over-The-Top (OTT) platforms such as WhatsApp, Viber and Telegram continue to gain popularity, SMS messaging still has its purpose…