Owame Mapedi named among 12 global fellows selected from hundreds of applicants across 10 countries. The ACA and Effie South Africa are proud to announce that Owame Mapedi, a 3rd and final year BCom Marketing Management student at University of Johannesburg (UJ), has been selected as a Effie Lions Foundation 2026 Voices of the Future…
The young woman in the stands simply sighed, turned her head and sat there, looking impossibly composed, while 15 million strangers fell briefly in love with someone who had never existed. She was, according to the caption accompanying one of many posts, “the average Korean woman”. Her admirers quickly crowned her a “baseball goddess”, analysing…
The Daily Star has won two prestigious honours — a gold and a silver — at the South Asian Digital Media Awards 2026, presented by WAN-IFRA (the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers), cementing its position among the region’s most forward-thinking news organisations. The gold went to the newspaper’s investigative report, “Anatomy of BGB…
This comes after a widely discussed experiment by Anushka Aashvi, a student at IIT Kharagpur, who tested OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3 on a JEE Advanced 2025 mock paper.
South African marketers are still often forced to rely on global reports to guide their digital strategies. However, international data rarely reflects the realities of local platforms, audience behaviour, and market-specific challenges. That gap is exactly what the Social Media Landscape Report (SMLR) aims to address. Produced annually by Ornico in partnership with World Wide…
South Korea to launch AI smart city pilot projects in Southeast Asia South Korea’s AI smart city projects will be launched as pilot programmes across five Southeast Asian countries under an initiative announced by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. The 2026 K-City Network programme will test artificial intelligence-based urban solutions in Brunei, the…
Anja Bates Pnet’s data shows the notable increase in AI-related skills that emerged between 2016 and 2019 was driven largely by technical roles such as Developers and Data Specialists. However, even then there was 98% alignment in the growth of non-tech talent with AI competencies and growth in AI Developers and Engineers – suggesting many…
BIS SiGMA South America 2026 concluded on Thursday in São Paulo with an agenda focused on technological innovation, the role of lotteries, and long-term prospects for the betting market in Brazil and Latin America. After three days of discussions among operators, regulators, investors, and technology companies, the final day addressed the main takeaways from the…
Marrakech – The Digital Development Agency of Morocco (ADD) and the Korea-Africa Foundation (KAF) signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement Wednesday at GITEX Africa 2026 to catalyze digital innovation and technological growth across their respective regions.The agreement was signed by Amine El Mezouaghi, Director General of the Digital Development Agency, and Ju Young Lee, Advisory Committee…
Legal experts say such investigative practices are becoming more common. Lawyers noted that authorities increasingly examine generative AI chat logs during mobile phone forensic analyses. PHOTO: THE KOREA HERALD SEOUL – Police are increasingly examining suspects’ generative artificial intelligence use history as key evidence in establishing intent or motive, according to media reports citing legal…
