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How African Industries Benefit from Open Source, Domain-Specific Models & Platforms
Enterprise leaders and developers can end up talking about AI in a very abstract way, using phrases like “unlock our true potential” or “give us valuable insights into our business”. It’s true, AI can do those things. But when it…
Can Young Kids Still Think?
In 1976, South Africa’s youth took to the streets to claim educational agency and the hard-won right to self-determination. Fifty years later, our young digital natives face a quieter, subtler crisis: the gradual surrender of that very critical reasoning and…
Healthcare systems cannot fund what they cannot measure
Every day, healthcare funders make decisions based on data. They know how many patients were admitted to the hospital. They know how many procedures were performed. They know how many days a hospital bed was occupied. These activities are measured,…
Shadow AI is The New Shadow IT & Financial Institutes are Sleepwalking Into It
By Bradley Elliott, CEO at RelyComply Someone at your institution is running a critical risk calculation from a laptop under a desk. You just don’t know which one. That’s not a hypothetical. At a major bank, compliance teams discovered approximately 36,000 systems…
Five things businesses need to know about AI-built software
AI has made software creation faster and more accessible, but speed is not the same as quality. The competitive advantage is shifting from who can write code to who can define the problem, guide the build, test the output, manage…
Why Virtual Accounting Firms Are Replacing Traditional CPAs
The accounting industry is undergoing a quiet revolution. Across the country, small businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs are moving away from traditional brick-and-mortar CPA offices and embracing virtual accounting firms that deliver the same expertise with greater speed, flexibility, and accessibility.…
Healthcare Systems & Interoperability
By David C Howell, Regional Sales Director at ManageEngine South Africa Healthcare systems don’t typically fail where data is created, they fail where it needs to move. The biggest breakdowns happen between hospital systems, EHR platforms, labs, radiology, billing and…
How Can Stablecoins Drive Modern-Day Digital Assets & Innovation
By Hannes Wessels, South Africa General Manager at Binance Stablecoins are no longer a niche instrument tucked away in crypto trading desks. They have evolved into critical financial infrastructure that is reshaping how money moves, how value is stored, and how…
Why Are SA Engagement Initiatives Failing & What Leaders Must ‘Unlearn’
According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report, global engagement has fallen to its lowest level since 2020. Employee engagement is declining globally despite organizations investing more than ever in engagement initiatives. For Keren-Amy Laughton, Partner at digital experience…
3 Steps to AI Readiness for SA Businesses
By Senzo Mbhele, managing director, Cloud on Demand AI deployments do not usually fail on the technology. They fail on what was already broken before the technology arrived: data that nobody fully trusts, governance that exists on paper but not…
What comes after Generative AI? And What That Means for African Innovation
By Johnson Idesoh, Group Chief Information and Technology Officer at Absa For the past three or four years, the world has lived through what is probably the fastest adoption of a general-purpose technology in modern economic history, with systems becoming…
Using AI to Anticipate Healthcare Air Quality Risks
Healthcare facilities are meant to be sanctuaries of healing, but the very air inside of hospitals and clinics can pose hidden risks. Poor indoor air quality—from dust and pathogens to chemical pollutants contribute to infections, worsen chronic conditions, and threaten…
A Legal Dive into South Africa’s Payment Revolution
By Lerato Lamola & Anél De Meyer, Partners at Webber Wentzel Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment options have strutted onto South Africa’s financial runway with the swagger of innovation—offering interest-free installments, bypassing traditional credit checks, and boasting sleek user…
How Bootstrapped Companies Punch Above Their Weight
Bootstrapped companies operate under a constraint that funded competitors do not face: every hour of operational overhead is an hour that cannot be spent on the work that generates revenue. The funded competitor can hire an operations team to manage…
How to Use AI to Solve South Africa’s Biggest Challenges
South Africans have a long tradition of doing more with less, and that resourcefulness may be our greatest competitive advantage in the coming decade. Unlike global superpowers that invest heavily in sheer computing capacity, South Africa doesn’t need to be…
Why Are Medical Aid Members Facing More out-of-pocket Healthcare Expenses
Many South Africans assume that belonging to a medical scheme means their hospital treatment will be fully covered. In practice, this is often not the case. Patients are increasingly encountering co-payments, specialist shortfalls and benefit sub-limits that leave them responsible…
