South Africa needs to decide if it will continue to waste public money on its national carrier, or incur the costs of letting SAA go bankrupt.
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African governments and businesses must do more to assist young people by creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem to support them. Without this support, all of their potential may stutter and die.
Too many girls are opting out of IT in school so we need to make it more mainstream.
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Some of the myths about why more women don’t code and get jobs in ICT are shown in a new satirical campaign. But is raising a woman’s menstrual cycle the right way to go?
Just 52% of students in year 10 are meeting the minimum standard required in ICT.
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Teachers admit falling down in digital competency, so if we are to improve students’ performance in this area, we first need to get teachers’ skills up to scratch.
The Democrats’ policy platforms address the fundamental issue of Internet haves and have-nots in the U.S. But research suggests just hooking people up to broadband won’t solve the problem.
Are we creating a generation of digitally illiterate students?
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Many professionals risk the wrath of their governing body if they act against any code of ethics. But not so the IT industry. Is it time for that to change?
Coding: it’s just another language to learn at school.
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Computer coding should be thought of as teaching children another language. If they get the basics right at an early age, who knows where their new-found language skills can take them.
Good things come in small packages, but are all small packages a good thing?
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Several companies are planning to build network of satellites in space to provide intenet access across the globe. But can it work and will it be affordable?
As an enabling technology, ICT reaches into many fields including health, cybersecurity and engineering (shown here).
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AUSTRALIA 2025: How will science address the challenges of the future? In collaboration with Australia’s chief scientist Ian Chubb, we’re asking how each science discipline will contribute to Australia…
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