Forget smart city – think smart citizen

Forget smart city – think smart citizen

By Dave Stevens, Head: Customer & Data Insights By 2050, it’s expected that nearly 80% of South Africans will be living in urban areas. This massive acceleration in rural-to-urban migration was highlighted recently by Co-operative Governance and Traditional...
Online retail is booming in South Africa

Online retail is booming in South Africa

For the first time since the dawn of e-commerce in South Africa, online retail in this country will reach 1% of overall retail during 2016. This is the most significant finding of the Online Retail in South Africa 2016 report, released on 6 April by World Wide Worx....
Local is lekker: Buying local vs international

Local is lekker: Buying local vs international

By About Heinrich van der Vyver, founder, BOS ‘Think global, act local’ is how the saying goes. Governments have implored their citizens to favour all things local over the international, and not much has changed. The idea of a ‘home grown’...
CeBIT 2016: Unified comms in the age of IoT

CeBIT 2016: Unified comms in the age of IoT

Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit 2016 in Hannover Huawei has launched is enterprise cloud communication solution, bringing traditional office communication and the broader world of Internet of Things devices together on a single cloud. The solution will run either...
Survival in a data-driven world

Survival in a data-driven world

Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover, March 2016 There can be no doubt that we have become a data-driven society – but the way we do analytics today is arguably wrong, having already led to some major disasters and more on the horizon if we don’t learn to do...
Impact of the economy on the ICT industry

Impact of the economy on the ICT industry

By Gerhard Malan, Financial Director at Rectron South Africa is in for a tough few years, if economists are to be believed. Our economy, weak Rand and recent interest rate hike are affecting industries across the board, and ICT and ICT distribution are no exception....