CIO DIRECTORY 2024

In 1849, French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” — the more things change, the more they stay the same. There’s a reason these sayings survive through the ages. They hold more than a grain of truth.Last year, in our CIO Directory, we asked participants what their pain points were, and it seems, in a year, not much has changed.

CISO DIRECTORY 2024

For the uninitiated, the addition of the word ‘security’ to the title of chief information officer, turning the acronym from CIO to CISO, might not seem so significant. But the reality is much bigger than one extra letter. Undoubtedly, some organisations will lump cybersecurity into the portfolio of the CIO, but increasingly, the CISO is a role of standalone importance.

BRAINSTORM April 2025

We’ve got plenty of AI news in this issue, particularly around what it means for education. I recently heard about a parent whose Grade 11 child attends one of the German schools in South Africa, who was fretting that pupils had been told to use ChatGPT to summarise a chemistry assignment.