Changing the guard

South Africa’s IT industry is approaching the end of an era as the first generation of non-white pioneers to reach the top begin to step aside. How have things changed?

Moving to chief data officer 2.0

The position is in transition as the role evolves from governance and compliance to enabling insight and innovation.

Verticals

Adrian Hinchcliffe

Web3: the internet of blockchains

The race to a decentralised, trustless internet, where data belongs to the user, is already underway. But do the hurdles belie the hype?

Technology

Adrian Hinchcliffe

Giving farmers an eye in the sky

Aerobotics combines analytics and drones to give agriculture a better chance of success.

Innovation

Lesley Stones

Cogito, ergo sum

Jacques Loubser, Group CIO of PPS, brings a technologist’s clear thinking to a new role on the other side of the fence between customer and service provider.

C-Suite

James van den Heever

The next Dimension Data

We look for the rising star systems integrators of the South African channel.

Innovation

Tamsin Oxford

Is the metaverse just sci-fi for Africa?

A great deal more must be done technologically in Africa before the continent can truly leverage online virtual worlds.

Technology

Chris Tredger

South Africa’s energy future

There’s a seismic shift underway in how we generate power, which will be helped by the wheeling of clean energy to customers across the grid. But, for one reason or another, plans have now stalled.