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The future of AI in healthcare depends not on how advanced our algorithms become, but on how wisely we use them. (Canva)

The ethical pulse of progress: AI’s promise and peril in healthcare

Bias in healthcare AI isn’t just a technical flaw; it’s an ethical hazard with real-world consequences for patient trust and equity

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

Corporate-controlled social media platforms, designed to keep us hooked, are fuelling a silent mental health epidemic.

Technology in SA – who will ignite the flame of transformation?

It is time for government departments to embrace digital transformation and benefit from the limitless opportunities that the fourth industrial revolution brings

Digital technology drives most aspects of business and our daily lives. (Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

How an ‘everything-as-a-service’ approach can boost business success

It helps to save money, boost IT team agility, streamline digital transformation and reduce routine IT work

eWaste is the world’s fastest-growing solid-waste stream, increasing at a rate three times faster than general waste. (Photo by Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Deal with IT waste in way that makes environmental and business sense

Refurbishing, recycling and reusing electronic equipment can save money as well as the environment

Auditor General Kimi Makwetu. (David Harrison/M&G)

Auditor general flags Ithala Bank’s digital deal

The Prudential Authority has given Ithala Bank until June 2021 to submit its application for a banking licence in terms of the Banking Act

A group of teachers undergoing digital skills training in the DBE Teacher Center in Seshego.

Initial teacher education must be prioritised

Education and the education of teachers is already a complex issue and even more so in rapidly-changing global circumstances

(John McCann/M&G)

Personal growth crucial to social change

If they want to change the world, social innovators must first transform themselves, argue academics from the UCT Graduate School of Business

Most teachers attempt to grade objectively but many students feel it is unfair. Photo: File

UCT aims to make IT appealing to women students

​Information Technology is traditionally a male-dominated sector

Vega students are encouraged to show initiative, confidence and curiosity for learning

​Shaping creative business minds for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Vega’s Brand Challenge and Brand Activation allow students to see what it’s like to work with a real-life brief from a real-life client

Judge Robert Nugent recommends, on the basis of the havoc he wrought in the Revenue Service, that commissioner Tom Moyane be fired immediately. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Moyane’s failings laid bare

The damage to the IT department alone is likely to amount to R2.16-billion over the next five years

The theme for World Health Day is ‘healthy beginnings, hopeful futures’ and aims to encourage governments to take actions to reduce mothers’ deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.

Ramaphosa gives go-ahead for new SIU probes

President Ramaphosa has authorised the Special Investigations Unit to look into corruption in a few government sectors

The National Education Collaboration Trust is piloting three tools in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal schools to help bring robotics and coding into South African classrooms

Technology in and around the classroom

The new school administration system will streamline and simplify management processes

Drones have the potential to intensify destruction in modern warfare. The ongoing conflict between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese government serves as a  case in point.

Drones come in from the cold

Drones have been getting a bad rap, but it is possible they can solve some of the world’s food and environmental problems, writes Arthur Goldstuck.

The big flaw in ‘always-on’

Most existing backup solutions are failing to give businesses the data protection they need, says Warren Olivier.

But what should children be interacting with online, in an ideal world? To solve that problem, there are recommendations for teachers: a collection of educational Google Play apps. And parents can share ideas with Google.

Inside the internet of things

The internet of things and big data are getting more practical when it comes to customer demands and service, writes Arthur Goldstuck.

Techies ride Zim’s internet wave

Developers have little knowledge about how to turn their ideas into dollars, but this is changing.

Final year IT students Ryno Schoeman, Pieter Delport and Wonga Vika do not necessarily intend continuing in the IT field. (Tracy Burrows)

Don’t count on youngster to fill IT skills gap

Millennials graduating now may seem to be the logical answer to the IT skills shortfall. But don’t count on it.

Scarcity of female geeks questioned

Why is it that although women make up 49% of the UK’s labour force, they account for just 17% of IT and telecommunications professionals?

Free software – all you have to do is ask

Prefix technologies is offering email software free of charge to any school.