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South Africa still can’t fill ICT skills gaps

South Africa’s specialised ICT skills gap persists, despite competitive salaries and efforts to build a skills pipeline, according to speakers at the Digital Skills Summit, co-hosted by the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) at Leaderex 2019...

School of Software Engineering to launch in South Africa

The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has developed a curriculum at schools to include ICT initiatives such as coding, software development and other digital skills. This is a national initiative that SITA, in accordance with its business development plan,...

SMMEs add their voice on the Fourth Industrial Revolution

In order to hone in on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and help prepare small businesses for the digital era, small businesses from across the country gathered at the second edition of the SMMEs in ICT Summit and Expo, which...

Vodacom empowers unemployed youth with ICT skills

Vodacom has announced that 367 unemployed young people will be graduating with certified diplomas in Information Technology Technical Support from the Vodacom Youth Academy during March and April this year. The Vodacom Foundation founded the Youth Academy in 2012 with...

Nigerian and Tanzanian students lead Huawei’s ICT competition

Students from Nigeria and Tanzania were the overall joint winners of this year’s Sub Saharan regional finals of Huawei's global ICT Competition. The winners were announced at the Huawei regional headquarter in Woodmead, Johannesburg. Together with second prize winners, Angola...

Nigeria: Digital Bridge Institute calls for major investment in ICT skills

The Administrator of Digital Bridge Institute, Dr Ike Adinde has called for significant investment in skills of the workforce to make them key drivers of the economy. Dr Adinde said the laboratory, worth $1 million, was donated by Huawei Technologies...

BBD achieves level 2 B-BBEE rating using education to uplift South Africa’s ICT skills

South African software technology company BBD takes transformation seriously, not just to assist with economic growth and development, but to change lives while improving ICT skills and contributing to job creation. Their recent level 2 broad-based black economic empowerment rating...

Oracle prepares young South Africans for employment in the ICT Sector

Twenty-two previously disadvantaged (PDI) South African students today kick-started their career in the country's fast-growing ICT industry following the completion of the fourth edition of Oracle's Graduate Leadership Programme that focuses on equipping PDI students with specialised IT and...

Fourth Edition of Africa Code Week kicks off in Madagascar

The 2018 edition of Africa Code Week (ACW) officially kicked-off in Madagascar this week with its first-part series of Train-the-Trainer (TTT) workshops. More than 200 local teachers and parents received hands-on training on the open-source Scratch learning interface, which...

Kenya: Nairobi County partners Cisco for deployment of Digital Business Roadmap

Nairobi City County has announced the launch of its Digital Business Roadmap in partnership with Cisco for digital transformation of service delivery. The initiative aims to drive better citizen experiences when engaging the county, better the County’s workforce environment and...
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Moldova Launches a New Incubator for Digital Agriculture, Robotics, and FoodTech

Moldova is taking a decisive step toward the future of agriculture with the launch of a new incubator and...
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