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....

Reviving digital white elephants to benefit the public good

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

By Josine Overdevest, MD of Flying Cows of Jozi and chair of the IITPSA Social and Ethics Committee: Reviving digital white elephants to benefit the public good In my contribution to the January newsletter I spoke about the herd of elephants I encountered in a game...

How to get into IT – IITPSA experts point the way

by leigh | Feb 28, 2023 | Member News, Sector News

South Africa is crying out for IT skills, and for young people considering careers in the sector, there are many paths they can take to ‘get into IT’. This is according to experts participating in a webinar hosted by the Institute of Information Technology...

Ethical AI dilemmas in the e-health space

by leigh | Feb 27, 2023 | Member News, Sector News

In the January 2023 social and ethics column, Josine Overdevest touched on ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), the new AI (Artificial Intelligence) ChatBot kid in the first IT Ethics article of 2023. It is barely a month and Google has announced plans to...