SMMEs recognise AI’s potential but many have yet to overcome the practical challenges involved in deploying it. (Image source: iStock) While South African small businesses are increasingly embracing artificial intelligence (AI) for marketing and social media, its adoption across core business operations remains limited due to high costs, technical skills shortages and a lack of…
Florian Kunzke, SAP’s global director of AI strategy. (Image supplied) SAP has announced a series of AI innovations at its annual SAP TechEd conference, expanding its portfolio for developers. The enhancements to Joule Studio and Joule Work, as well as the SAP Business AI Platform – including SAP’s latest tabular foundation model – offer new…
A Statement from the Friends of the High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response New York – Today, an overwhelming majority of Member States at the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Political Declaration as the outcome of the 25 September High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR). The Friends of the…
Yaounde, Cameroon — Agricultural, land, forestry, environmental and trade policies in the Congo Basin remain compartmentalised at country levels, leaving proven agroecological models trapped at pilot stages due to a lack of advisory services, organic inputs, market outlets and sustainable financing. In a declaration made following the Second Congo Basin Convening on Agroecology held in…
AI adoption is gathering pace across the enterprise, bringing new opportunities alongside new risks. (Source: ChatGPT) The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a growing gap between what companies can deploy and their ability to govern it. This emerged during a panel discussion at the recent TrendAI Spark 2026 in Sun City. The…
AI presents teaching opportunities, but VUT warns universities need stronger governance, ethical guidelines and lecturer training. (Image created via ChatGPT) Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in higher learning, teaching and assessment is outpacing the policies, skills and ethical safeguards needed to govern it responsibly, according to research presented by Vaal University of Technology (VUT). The study,…
The Faranani DocTec stand at last year’s OpenText Summit. Content management and effective governance are critical foundations for AI adoption, with unmanaged data posing an organisational risk and undermining AI progress. This is according to Faranani DocTec, an OpenText Reseller Platinum Partner and Titanium Experience Partner of the upcoming OpenText Summit Africa 2026 in Johannesburg….
Gregory MacLennan, CEO and co-founder of Digicloud Africa. The first Google Cloud Summit to be held in Africa generated massive excitement in the local market – an indication that the Google AI groundswell is here. This is according to Gregory MacLennan, CEO of Digicloud Africa – Google Cloud distributor for Africa and sponsor of the…
The cloud industry has measured success using the wrong metric. For a decade, adoption was the metric that mattered. How many workloads migrated, how many organisations crossed the threshold from on-premises to cloud. These are real achievements. The effort that went into them is not in question. But adoption was never a measure of value….
The lack of defined entry points means AI is often used in isolated, low-impact ways. (Image source: 123RF) A new field report finds a widening disconnect between organisations’ expectations of artificial intelligence (AI) and the actual outcomes being delivered by the firms using it. The global report, published by tech executive and analyst Kristian Kabashi…
