Browsing: 4IR

The new world order revolves around technology. We would be doing ourselves an injustice, as professionals, if we assumed we…

Some senior officials in the Trump administration have put forward new measures to restrict the global supply of chips to…

With the enormous potential to better human lives, the dawn of the connected technological age has placed telecommunications companies at…

Minister Stella Ndabeni Abrahams, who heads the Ministry of Communications and Digital Technologies, has stressed the need for partnerships and…

As part of a partnership to equip South African students to succeed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), Huawei and…

Despite the various economic and structural challenges that South Africa currently faces, there are many market opportunities and reasons to…

The South African government is negotiating with mobile phone operators for big data price cuts and free daily data allocation…

South Africa’s ICT sector is highly innovative and entrepreneurial, presenting opportunities for significant job creation and export opportunities in the…

Vodacom has added 484 000 customers in South Africa in the fourth quarter of the 2019 calendar year, supported by…

SAP Africa launched the SAP Experience Centre in Johannesburg, the first of its kind in Africa and one of only…

So how can we adequately prepare tomorrow’s workforce at the same time as retraining the hundreds of millions of people whose work is evolving?

Liquid Telecom is to launch the first 5G wholesale roaming service in South Africa. The company said the wholesale roaming…

by Jamie Morgan Cast your mind back a decade or so and consider how the future looked then. A public…

The arrival of Summer is the perfect opportunity for young South Africans to log onto the worldwide web and claim…

Tomorrow (12 November 2019) marks the 28th birthday of the South African Internet. The year 1988 saw Mike Lawrie lead…

The Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has presented President Cyril Ramaphosa with its draft diagnostic report towards…

The upcoming 13th annual GovTech conference is set to focus on how the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) will change the…

Foursight Holdings Proprietary Limited (FH), the intermediary investment holding company of some of the South African subsidiaries, has filed for…

With ever-increasing capacity requirements and the complexity of the 5G network, operators need to invest in the development of their…

DFA is pleased to announce that it is the headline sponsor for this year’s FTTx Council Conference. The event will…

by Alison Gillwald In the three short years that the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been punting the concept of…

Energy has played an enabling role in each of the past industrial revolutions, and the fourth is no different. But…

by Ryan Falkenberg While some commentators talk about the 4IR as something that is happening in the future, the reality…

There is a need to ensure broadband access for all in order to overcome social, economic and spatial inequality, Finance…

Digitisation and automation could result in a net gain of up to 1.2 million jobs in South Africa by 2030,…