Browsing: Fourth Industrial Revolution

Since the creation of Bitcoin in 2009, blockchain technologies and, in turn, cryptocurrencies have seen enormous growth. Even with the…

The Milken Institute and the Motsepe Foundation today launched the Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize programme. The multi-year initiative will focus on…

Cryptocurrency investment platform, Revix, with offices in Cape Town and London, has raised R58.5 million in off-shore capital funding. Founded…

The term “Industry 4.0” has been used for years to describe the need for societies to adapt their work and…

Forge Academy, powered by Nokia, has launched a fully inclusive artificial intelligence laboratory in Fourways at The Gantry. The academy…

Living immersed in the digital world has seen tasks we perform online become increasingly challenging from a security point of…

South Africa’s gig economy, which is made up of freelance, short-term, and on-demand work, is growing. Since the lockdown was…

The Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, has – in the recent past – said that South Africa…

Huawei South Africa has added online training in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to its portfolio of free training it offers to…

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

TechFinancials interviewed Mickey Mashale, the new boss of Nexio, in a wide-ranging discussion that touched on women’s equality, empowerment, digital…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) to place 4IR at the centre…

Much of the current hype in the telecommunications space focuses on the roll-out of 5G technology, the new mobile networks…

South African company Brand Hubb is using an innovative e-commerce platform to change how South African consumers exchange gifts. “We…

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

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of this year, organisations across the planet began to shift…

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

Pan-African telecommunications service provider, Seacom, and Tata Communications, a global digital infrastructure provider, have joined forces to offer high-speed, reliable…

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

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…

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?

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

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