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Destination: Mervyn Sloman at the entrance of The Book Lounge. Photo:
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Mervyn Sloman: The vision behind Cape Town’s beloved Book Lounge and Open Book Festival

Seventeen years later, Mervyn Sloman reflects on The Book Lounge thriving in the digital age and building reading community through Open Book Festival

Creating a school-to-work pipeline through partnerships between education institutions and business, backed by policy, can boost employment.

Harness the potential of the continent’s demographic dividend

Partnerships between education institutions and the private sector, with the backing of policymakers need to develop a strong school-to-work pipeline.

Young people’s digital fluency and ambition make them vulnerable to crime. Photo: Reuters

Young, connected and exposed: Cybercriminals are preying on SA’s youth

Young people’s digital fluency and ambition make them vulnerable to crime. Here’s how to protect them

There is nothing inherently magical about a newspaper. Socially, sure, the beautiful thing about a physical copy is that it can be shared, passed around and collectively leafed through. But that’s not what makes it great.
South Africa’s youngest news consumers are disengaging from traditional journalism.

Editorial: Readers will decide news quality

The digital media industry is besieged by standards that encourage the dumbing down of its work – consider what’s happening to the Washington Post

By 2023, the major hyperscalers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta) operated close to 992 data centres globally, with capacity having doubled in just four years

Renewable energy could keep SA’s data centres lit and reliable

When one query to ChatGPT uses the same amount of electricity to power a light bulb for 20 minutes, it makes sense to drive the artificial intelligence revolution using solar and…

Organisations must raise security awareness among employees of the omnipresent threats of the digital age

Cybercrime the silent spectre of insider threats

The assumption that investment in a robust security culture is a luxury is a costly mistake

New modes of digital literacy are just as important as traditional literacy. Photo: File

Digging for (digital) gold: How Africa can build a prosperous future economy

The continent needs to invest in its potential resource, the youth, by ensuring rapid and extensive digital skills development

Organisations like Partners Against Piracy, a campaign to protect the livelihoods of content creators by raising awareness about piracy, are gaining traction.(Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Educate people about how piracy robs Africa’s artists, musicians and actors

Organisations like Partners Against Piracy, a campaign to protect the livelihoods of content creators by raising awareness about piracy, are gaining traction

Empowered by VR headsets with facial recognition technology and VR haptic gloves, providers and patients will be able to interact virtually in a hyper-realistic manner, allowing them to feel like they are actually in the same room together. (Photo by Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

A healthcare revolution lurks in the metaverse

The metaverse’s democratising, inclusive and diversity-rich potential can equalise access to healthcare.

Benefits of technology: The AirQo team at Makerere University in Uganda uses artificial intelligence and sensors to monitor air quality

Investing in Africa’s digital transformation

The continent could reap rewards through digitisation and adopting new technologies

Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has appointed a project steering committee to expedite South Africa’s long-delayed migration from analogue to digital.

Committee appointed to oversee South Africa’s lagging digital migration

‘We have the technical skills to ensure the migration takes place,’ says minister of communications and digital technologies

TikTok hits the sweetest spots

But some countries – such as Egypt – have cracked down on the social media app, which grew apace with the pandemic