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Textile

Biotechnology

Security

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Its purpose is to stimulate and facilitate an inclusive national dialogue to shape a coherent national response to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in South Africa. It aims to complement and support other national activities relating to the 4IR, most notably the Presidential Commission on the 4IR

Waste to Energy

The Circular Economy may be the answer to this dilemma. It has emerged as an alternative industrial model to the prevailing linear model of production and consumption in which goods are manufactured from raw materials, sold, used.

Agriculture

Agriculture and its value chain have been earmarked by the government as one of the key sectors to boost economic growth and create jobs. But like other areas of the economy, the future of the sector is unpredictable due to the technological disruptions we are already seeing as South Africa starts embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).

Manufacturing - The global labour market is increasingly adopting new technology. New technology makes it easier for companies to automate routine tasks and could disrupt the balance between job responsibilities completed by humans and those completed by machines and algorithms. With smart technology becoming more mainstream, we need to consider the impact using this new technology will have on our society and workforce.

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The 4IR will impact every part of the economy and society, and hence all constituencies need to be part of the dialogue and of formulating South Africa’s response

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Energy

Banking

Deep neural networks and systems in hand that are sure to change the way in which banking, central banking, and financial services happen over the next decade
and beyond.

Logistics

Technological advancements are taking place at an unprecedented speed and is disrupting almost every industry across the globe. With the development of artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, robotics and the Internet of Things (IoT), the Fourth Industrial Revolution means that humans and systems are interacting more seamlessly than ever before.

Telecoms

Service side dominated by three mobile service providers (Vodacom, MTN, Cell C) and landline monopoly (Telkom). Using tech-intensive production techniques makes the venture attractive to Foreign investor partners because it uses little high-cost labour.

Education, Training and Skills Development

The fourth is a fusion of technological advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced materials, 3D printing, quantum computing, Blockchain, 5G and other technologies. It is evident that operating in the current industrial revolution requires higher education levels and cognitive skills

Construction

The industry only recently started exploiting the potential of digital technology, which is opening up new possibilities for the industry and creating innovation where it was not possible previously.

Entertainment Industry

With the Entertainment and Media section holds a very huge use of data and internet of things and its machine learnng and understanding pesonnel likes and for future use.

Mining

With Industry 4.0, the use of tech-intensive production techniques provides the opportunity to (efficiently) move up the value chain of manufacturing.

Health Sector

Big data refers to very large volumes of data that are too complex for traditional data-processing tools. In the health and healthcare sector, an increasing volume of data from within and outside traditional healthcare settings has the potential to contribute to decision-making.