technology

Twitter’s got a bot of a problem

The social platform is filling up with fake accounts, spam and misinformation. So, are bots getting a bad rap?

How to build a dashboard on your dining-room table

The Mediahack team made a coronavirus dashboard for South Africa, and, in doing so, filled the yawning information gap.

Data visualisation

Matthew Burbidge

Making leaders future-fit

Why a new world of work requires a 4IR-focussed approach to leadership education.

Professor Randall Carolissen

Tiana Cline

Nature’s internet

Lemu is using technology to help create an atlas of the biosphere and track the impact of climate change.

Lemu

Lesley Stones

Under the magnifying glass

South Africa’s digital forensics sector is in desperate need of a manpower boost as technology’s influence increasingly seeps into crime.

Danny Myburgh

Adrian Hinchcliffe

SITA’s silver lining

The slow march of government departments adopting cloud services finally seems to be picking up pace.

SITA

Matthew Burbidge

Africa’s best kept secret

By moving from digital finance for micro SMEs to enabling fintechs, banks and telcos, Ukheshe Technologies is hoping it has figured out a path for world domination.

IITPSA Tech Excellence award

Adrian Hinchcliffe

The man of the moment

Winner of the IITPSA’s IT Personality of the Year award, Professor Tshilidzi Marwala has been a leading light for the adoption of technology to improve South Africa.

IITPSA’s IT Personality of the Year

Lesley Stones