Cyberspace during wartime: The fifth common space
Kudzayi Chipidza discusses how information systems and cyberspace have become a battlefront during wartime. He highlights the need for internationally adopted cyber war crime legislation. Contribution by: Kudzayi Chipidza is a technology enthusiast running a digital...
Pr.CIOs review the pros and cons of cloud in SA
While there are some compelling benefits of moving to the cloud, cloud adoption is also causing headaches for CIOs, who must grapple with major vendors going all-cloud, cost spikes driving repatriation from the cloud, and unexpected business risks. This emerged during...
Ethical leadership in action: fighting corruption and building a sustainable ICT skills base
- Josine Overdevest reports on last month’s webinar hosted by the IITPSA Social & Ethics Committee and Women in IT Chapter in which she interviewed mobile industry veteran Ineke Botter. They discussed the amazing story of the mobile revolution and highlighted...
IT leads prepare for ‘business unusual’ in the event of grid failure
IT leads prepare for ‘business unusual’ in the event of grid failure CIOs and IT leaders are under pressure to prepare their organisations for the possibility of extended load shedding or a complete grid failure, however few would be able to sustain business as usual...
Ransomware, loadshedding make healthcare incident response planning a matter of life or death
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)
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
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 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
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
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...