Digital personas integral to teaching

South Africa’s Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association (WASPA) recently helped equip a group of local teachers with the skills they need to create, safeguard and develop their digital personas.  A digital persona is the personality one projects across...

Equal educational opportunities for all

Digital transformation is transforming every industry and sector including education enabling educational institutions to use modern tools for a more collaborative and engaging classroom experience.  This transformation is also helping schools employ technology to...

Should digital literacy be part of general literacy?

Digital literacy should be part of general literacy along with numeric and language literacy. This was the general consensus by panel members at a recent human resources (HR) influencer session looking at the impact of digital literacy on the workforce. Myles Thies ,...

Online short courses provide practical ICT skills

South Africans seeking to meet growing corporate demand for high-end and specialist IT skills could increase their employability by combining world class online short courses with practical experience, instead of committing to years at a college or university. This is...

Paperless gains momentum

The shift toward cloud and paperless is fast gaining momentum as the new global cohort of millennial customers demand digital and mobile business options.  According to Craig Leppan, business development manager at Assimilated Information Systems (AIS), an e4 company,...

Modest growth for EMEA printers

Unit shipments of printer hardware to Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) continued to improve in Q2 2017 and registered an increase of 4% year-on-year compared to a decline of 3% in Q2 2016, according to analysts Context. The company adds that while there was...