‘What AI you learning’

by leigh | May 30, 2023 | Member News

Contribution by: Kudzayi Chipidza, non-executive director on the IITPSA Board of Directors, member of the IITPSA Social & Ethics Committee, Professional Member of the IITPSA and a Cloud Support Engineer for one of the leading international Cloud Service Providers....

South Africa’s Haroon Meer to keynote DevConf 2023

by leigh | May 18, 2023 | Member News

Tech company founder and CEO, Haroon Meer, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at DevConf 2023. DevConf is Southern Africa’s largest conference for software developers and professionals and is taking place this year in Cape Town on 23rd of May and Pretoria on...

Ransomware, loadshedding make healthcare incident response planning a matter of life or death

by leigh | Apr 26, 2023 | Member News, Sector News

Ransomware attacks are the most disruptive and destructive type of cyber incidents threatening healthcare, with clear impacts on the systemic functioning of hospitals in service delivery and surgeries. However, ransomware is not the only threat facing healthcare...

Ethics and the IT science of sport (Two Oceans Marathon)

by leigh | Apr 26, 2023 | Member News, Sector News

Constandious Takura Munakandafa, Agile Systems Analyst at Glacier at Sanlam and a member of the IITPSA Social & Ethics Committee, discusses ethics in IT and sport. At least 27,000 runners descended in the Mother City (Cape Town) over the weekend of 15 and 16 April...

IITPSA President urges fast-tracking of ICT in education

by leigh | Mar 30, 2023 | Member News, Sector News

The President of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA), Admire Gwanzura, has called for more urgency in the introduction of ICT education in schools, saying children in Africa are falling behind those elsewhere in the world....