Browsing: data

South African space science had a big day on 13 January 2022. The Cape Peninsula University of Technology, based in…

The South African Revenue Service’s (SARS) efforts to increase and expand the use of data to improve the integrity of…

When you enter your personal information or credit card number into a website, do you have a moment of hesitation?…

2021 marks five years in SA since the #DataMustFall campaign which saw the President order the Communications Ministry to bring…

MTN Group announced on Thursday that it has added 4.1 million new data users in the quarter to September 2021…

The shifting demands of electricity consumption, driven by the need to balance growing consumption with long-term environmental sustainability necessitates a…

South Africa’s mining industry has made substantial progress in its journey towards digital transformation in the last decade, but to…

In conversation with my teenage daughter last week, I pointed out a news report which flagged concerns over the use…

By Oupa Makhalemele, Film and Publication Board Research, Policy and Advocacy Officer  As the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) continues cementing…

The banking industry has released its annual crime statistics for 2020, and digital banking fraud increased by 33%. The South…

Undergraduate training for data scientists – dubbed the sexiest job of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review – falls…

Albert Einstein once said of problems; “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking…

In a world prioritising agility and speed to market, businesses today are challenged in balancing doing it fast, doing it…

It has never been more important for marketing organisations to be data-driven to deliver business results. The concept of data…

Capitec, South Africa’s largest digital bank, is taking a hybrid approach that combines digital banking with traditional branches. They serve…

Comments on Government’s controversial proposed data policy – the Draft National Policy on Data and Cloud, released on 1 April…

Data and data analytics? Big business. We generate a massive amount of information every day, sourced via the Internet of…

Irrespective of the industry you’re in – be it marketing, finance or healthcare – data is pretty important these days.…

Public sector organisations are facing a multitude of new challenges and threats that are testing responses and capabilities built in…

by Antony K Cooper, Samy Katumba,  and Serena Coetzee, Addresses provide people with a social status: a sense of identity…

The world is all abuzz with the focus on the next most precious resource of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR),…

South African FinTech company Centbee launched a new feature in its Bitcoin wallet today that allows you to purchase prepaid…

MTN added 2.9 million data users across its operations in Africa and the Middle East in the first quarter financial…

by Julia de Kadt The COVID-19 pandemic is a fundamentally social and societal event. The virus spreads between people, and…

South Africa’s communications watchdog on Thursday called on mobile operators to offer free services during the coronavirus situation. The country…