The country's cyber risk exposure is increasing due to the skills shortfall and the delay by companies in adopting new technologies, say security experts.
Despite initial technical problems, almost 74% of Gauteng grade one and eight learners who applied online for school assignment have been placed.
The Jozi Digital Ambassadors programme has so far trained nearly 2 000 unemployed youth, who have since trained nearly 400 000 city residents.
The mentorship programme aims to give orphaned South African children the benefits of First World technology and improve their life skills.
The newly introduced Girl Geek project aims to equip girls from disadvantaged backgrounds with computing skills.
Professionals who successfully complete the courses become members of the Ace-Fx community.
Microsoft is hosting 50 hours of code sessions in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth as part of Computer Science Education Week.
Unplanned downtime can hurt the business from lost revenue to reputation damage to lost productivity, says Sochin Technologies.
Technology can help break the stranglehold of the South African skills crisis.
The introduction of CityVarsity Online aims to provide quality online courses in the creative arts and media spectrum.
Project managers spend a great deal of time writing status reports (and minutes) that no-one reads, says Guy Jelley, Project Portfolio Office.
The social network creates a campaign to educate people on how artificial intelligence works and show it is essentially maths, not magic.