Tech

Digital agency 8909 has made three significant new appointments to their leadership team. Manisha Jogi has been promoted to  Head of Strategy, Yuvisti Ramgulam has been appointed as Head of Client Service, and Khanya Sijaji has been promoted to  Executive Creative Director.  Jogi will be in charge of translating client marketing strategies into well thought out brand, communication and digital strategies while staying true to the 8909 promise of Quantified Creativity. Ramgulam will be directly responsible for client satisfaction, success and retention, and Sijaji, who has many years of experience in advertising and an impressive portfolio of work under his belt, will oversee all brand and creative work, while leading the studio at the digital agency. 8909 has seen immense growth in a fe...

The State of AI in Africa Report by the AI Media Group South Africa, offers an analysis of the emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) landscape in Africa. It contains multiple statistics and trends while offering insights on key factors and communities driving the ecosystem across the continent.  Report author, and CEO of the AI Media Group, Dr Nick Bradshaw stated, “The origins of this report were motivated from a lack of data about the regional / continental landscape for what is one of the fastest growing tech sectors globally.  When we started our company back in 2018, there was literally no data about the region as a whole.  Most local activity was either academic or developer community focused, with very little connection between these communities, industry practitioners and investor...

Caroline van der Merwe, COO of SmartWage, an innovative HR and communications technology company, says that effective communication is key to a productive workforce, and achieving this in the South African context requires employers to bridge the digital divide. The human need to communicate is as old as time. The first printing press, which introduced the era of mass communication, and status updates on Facebook, while hundreds of years apart, both have one thing in common – they demonstrate our desire to connect with one another through communication. Recently, we’ve been bombarded with events that have put a spotlight on the desperate need for clear communication between employees and management. KwaZulu-Natal’s devastating floods, the pandemic, load-shedding and the July riots all di...

 Automation, robotics and artificial intelligence can be a force for exceptional business progress, but could also cut jobs, impacting a multitude of workers and their families. Instead of cutting heads, organisations should be empowering employees with technology to become more valuable. This is according to Johan Steyn, technologist, management consultant, Chair of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) Gauteng Chapter and Chair of the IITPSA Special Interest Group in AI and Robotics. “Organisations need to consider how they can simultaneously improve efficiencies and their bottom line, while also empowering the people they have,” he says. “Every business should have a roadmap for using these new technologies,” he says. “They should not approac...

Automation, robotics and artificial intelligence can be a force for exceptional business progress, but could also cut jobs, impacting a multitude of workers and their families. Instead of cutting heads, organisations should be empowering employees with technology to become more valuable. This is according to Johan Steyn, technologist, management consultant, Chair of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) Gauteng Chapter and Chair of the IITPSA Special Interest Group in AI and Robotics. “Organisations need to consider how they can simultaneously improve efficiencies and their bottom line, while also empowering the people they have,” he says. “Every business should have a roadmap for using these new technologies,” he says. “They should not approach ado...