Pheello Motolo, senior manager for IT infrastructure and operations, cyber security and GRC at Motus Car Rental, will deliver the keynote address at the ITWeb Cloud Summit 2026 on 29 September. Organisations are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) faster than governance frameworks can keep up, and if left unchecked, this opens the door to increased risks. That’s…
Across Africa, assisted reproductive technology (ART) is expanding at an unprecedented pace. Fertility clinics are opening in countries where, until recently, couples had little choice but to travel abroad, often to Europe, India, or within the continent South Africa–to access in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and related treatments. The costs of travel alone made this a…
Africa must develop a new generation of purposeful leaders and stronger institutions if it is to break a cycle of governance failures that continues to undermine the continent’s development ambitions, speakers at the Africa Mindset Reset Forum have said. The issue took centre stage during a presidential panel on Tuesday, August 25, bringing together President…
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…
Tightening audit and governance with Nintex K2 and ServiceNow. A Nintex K2 and ServiceNow integration that gave a petrochemical company a full audit trail of every change from development to production. First Digital’s client needed to strengthen its IT general controls so it could prove exactly what changed across the software life cycle. The existing K2…
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….
Clayton Campbell, MD of Onsite IT. AI is being used across companies, often without IT teams having full visibility into which tools employees are using, what data they are accessing or the risks they may introduce, according to South African managed services provider Onsite IT and its software partner Jamf. While the findings apply broadly…
The National Skills Authority will conduct a governance and leadership assessment of MICT SETA. The National Skills Authority has been tasked to assess the Media, Information and Communication Technologies Sector Education and Training Authority (MICT SETA), amid governance and leadership challenges. The move, announced by higher education minister Buti Manamela yesterday, relates to MICT SETA’s…
Celebrating a significant milestone for Snode: CEO Nithen Naidoo, David Jackson, Associate Director of Advisory Services, and Christo Kleu, Associate Director of Engineering. Snode Technologies, a provider of AI-led cyber defence solutions, has achieved certification against ISO/IEC 42001:2023, the International Standards Organisation’s (ISO) standard for artificial intelligence, following an independent assessment by SanCert. The certification…
Nigeria moved to deepen economic and migration ties with Europe, even as experts at a major conference in Porto warned that artificial intelligence must be governed ethically to protect migrants and the Nigerian diaspora. The two developments dominated the second Centre for African Studies, University of Porto (CEAUP) Conference on ‘Migration, Artificial Intelligence and the…
