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Public sector skills: vision needed

Government needs to build up skills for its own needs as well as the country’s. That won’t be easy.

It’s all about the risk

Compliance. Aka an unnecessary cost. Aka a painful thing that must be done. And it’s about to get worse.

About

Samantha Perry

On the spot: Data centres

Your business can’t operate without it, but you’ve not updated it since ’79. Problem? Perhaps.

THE

Samantha Perry

Mapping hope

Traditional mapping data for asset tracking, fleet management, business and market intelligence and web services is now being used to combat HIV/Aids.

Mapping

Patrick Heske

Where have all the billboards gone?

Technology is revolutionising the property market.

Where

Rebecca Haynes

Mobile tracking becomes the norm

Location-based services and personal tracking is also a trend.

Mobile

Hilton Tarrant

Double-edged cell

Cellphones are a blessing and a curse for companies that can benefit from their convenience, but suffer because of the 24/7 access they enable.

Double

Lesley Stones

Demographic shift

Cisco’s first networkers’ conference in the Middle East highlighted the changing makeup of the world’s population.

Demographic

Paul Furber

Focus on South Africa

The spotlight is on Africa as the Fifa 2010 World Cup descends on SA.

Focus

Jacob Nthoiwa

Hard-arsed Hollander

For some people, the epitaph above would be deemed an insult that could only be assuaged by suing Noseweek for coining the phrase. But Piet den Boer wore it like a badge of honour.

Hard

Brian Bakker

The Facebook generation

Consumers are becoming increasingly identity-focused. Corporations will have to keep up to remain relevant – both as suppliers and employers.

THE

Lauri E. Elliott

Precision farming

How technology informs farm management decisions, and provides market linkages to African small-scale farmers.

Precision

Hilton Tarrant

Software? What software?

True or false? Every piece of software your organisation uses is properly licensed, and you are only paying for as many licences as you actually need.

Software

Samantha Perry