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Dependency trap: Artificial intelligence is not a borderless equaliser but a centralised engine of geopolitical stratification. Photo: Supplied

Geopolitical realignment and the Global South AI divide

The international community is finalising frameworks for the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, but a stark technological cleavage has emerged. The Global North uses advanced…

In schools across the country, particularly those in rural and under-resourced areas, learners face uphill battles that many of us can scarcely imagine.

Equity is needed in SA’s education system

Congratulations to the matric class of 2024, but systemic changes are needed to create a fair and just education system

While technology can create efficiencies in governance, it risks excluding marginalised groups who rely on traditional civic engagements.

e-Services in South Africa exacerbate inequality through digital barriers

Challenges detract from technology’s potential to allow users to engage with structures of political and public life, leaving many without a say

Fisokuhle Tshivhandekano, Managing Director of Idea Hive South Africa.

How data analytics can transform Africa’s marketing landscape

The human touch is essential to bring an understanding of what is being analysed

Dr Mmaki Jantjies, Group Executive of Innovation at Telkom and Adjunct Associate Professor at UWC.

Future-proof your career: Advice for school leavers

Learn how technology impacts your sector, and how you can use it to advance your career

Free internet for over 300 schools

Cool Schools initiative provides fibre connectivity to hundreds of schools across SA

Graphic: John McCann

South Africa must bridge digital divide to best benefit from 4IR

Most of SA’s youth will be left behind without investment in technology and infrastructure to support online learning from basic education up

(John McCann/M&G)

All players need to work together to help girls cross the digital divide

The hard lockdown imposed two years ago showed how difficult it is for girls and young women in poorly resourced areas to learn online

OPINION | Education must invest in technology to future-proof the workforce

EdTech can provide badly needed return on money and resources country has put into education.

President Cyril Ramaphosa

South Africa gets R14.4 billion in spectrum sale to MTN, Telkom

Sale of mobile telecommunication spectrum is ‘a significant milestone in our reform agenda’ — Ramaphosa

The high court in Pretoria has granted an application by matric learner Anlé Spies, lobby group AfriForum and Maroela Media to compel the department of basic education to have last year’s matric examination results published in newspapers.

Court rules matric results will be published in the media

Court grants AfriForum’s application to compel the department of basic education to publish matric results in newspapers and online platforms

Umbrellas, 2020. The image will be shown as part of Of Blood, Sweat and Data, which forms part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme. (Photo: Nonzuzo Gxekwa)

‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’: Everyone goes to the mall

‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’, on show as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme, hopes to alter the way art lovers view Johannesburg — and photography

Ubiquitous internet access will improve social cohesion and economic inclusion

We owe it to our children to bridge the digital divide

Ubiquitous internet access will improve social cohesion and economic inclusion

Technology is a double-edged sword

As the fourth industrial revolution and Covid co-conspire to flip the world of work upside down, technology has the potential to address our inequalities, or deepen them

Africa’s digital transformation risks becoming trapped in geopolitical competition

As China and the West battle it out for control of Africa’s physical and virtual digital infrastructure, the continent needs to assert its own voice

Political parties move online but risk losing inclusivity

Did the Democratic Alliance’s 2020 virtual Federal Congress achieve equal access, and what does the move to digital politics mean for the upcoming elections?

Teaching cannot live on technology alone

The assumption of digital fluency for staff and students threatens a socially just education system

(John McCann/M&G)

How to create a new and better normal in the education sector

The education sector should use the opportunity of Covid-19 to address its challenges strategically

Graduation day  arrives, but the job offers don’t. Photo: Chris Furlong/Getty Images

Leading others in a time of crisis

Like other sectors, higher education should continue to respond optimally to the coronavirus and map out a new path

For the bulk of the world’s “bottom billion”, phone and internet services remain prohibitively expensive. (AFP)

Technology can uplift world’s ‘bottom billion’

Technology is often oversold as either a panacea for the world’s problems or a curse inflicting disruption and displacement on the most vulnerable