October 2024

In today’s expanding digitised society, we seldom hesitate to part with personal information. Whether registering to vote, opening a bank account, or purchasing goods online, we happily provide our details to one of the almost seventy data centres currently operating in South Africa. Some are housed locally in brick-and-mortar or concrete buildings, while others operate […]

While there were many less effective predecessors, the first genuinely viable PC was released by IBM in 1981, a few years before the most disruptive of all IT Infrastructures: Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web, or, as most people know it, the internet. The newfound ability to access and exchange information instantaneously from anywhere in the