By Bill Gates As Africa faces many challenges during the pandemic, these heroes are making a difference. In Africa, the latest statistics on COVID-19 are discouraging. Just 6 percent – about 78 million – of the continent’s [c]
As we enter the third year of hybrid work due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Microsoft has recommended three strategies that it believes will be critical to the success of the new world of work in [c]
They say every cloud has a silver lining, and the Covid-19 pandemic seems to be inspiring the growth of digital financial services if the recently released financial results of the region’s largest commercial bank and [c]
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to pose challenges to the global economy, organizations have been advised to transform their businesses in order to remain afloat. Speaking at the Mitel United 2021 conference held in Dubai [c]
The business world inevitably reflects the society that surrounds it, as changes in societal norms and evolving cultural values naturally filter into office environments. After all, businesses are composed of people. What’s less obvious is [c]
By Mark Lambrecht According to media reports, analysed data for South Africa suggests that the current wave of infections (wave 3) is expected to end around the end of August 2021, but that estimates indicate [c]
The tectonic shift in lifestyle triggered by the coronavirus pandemic has catapulted online shopping into a massive global enterprise with people now using virtual platforms to buy goods and services. One of these is Augmented [c]
INTERPOL has issued a global alert for organized crime groups attempting to defraud governments with fake offers to sell COVID-19 vaccines. The warning follows some 60 cases in 40 countries around the world where individuals [c]
The employment landscape has begun to change. There’s been a steady exploration of remote work models over the last decade or so. Yet, it’s been the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic that has really [c]
Huawei’s ranking in the global top 500 enterprises has improved to 44 this year, up from 49 in 2020. The privately employee-owned firm entered the list for the first time in 2010, coming in 397th [c]
The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns worldwide have challenged conventional ideas on how we work and what a workplace should look like. Will the traditional 9-5 workday and five-day work week at the office come [c]
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and pan-African telecoms operator MTN have launched a joint campaign – “One More Push” – to encourage people across the continent to not give up [c]
Even before 2020, that’s before the outbreak of the current pandemic, Kenya already had a significant portion of the population that was grappling with mental health. And this was (and is still) an issue the [c]
The Covid-19 has been with us for over a year, since the first case was reported in the country in the first quarter of 2020. Even though members of the public still have to adhere [c]
During the pandemic, Kaspersky alone recorded more than 5,000 fraudulent sites globally related to the Coronavirus. During this period, the company also prevented more than one million users’ attempts to visit these sites, according to [c]
By Bernard Martyris As HR leaders look towards the post-COVID economy, employee wellbeing will need to feature at the top of their list. No business leader would have predicted that this era in history would [c]
Like nearly every sector, the electronics industry has changed significantly because of the pandemic. Not only was the supply of components affected as the world was reeling from initial outbreaks, and continues to be deeply [c]
MTN Group’s brand is growing from strength to strength, evidenced by its top rankings in two separate independent brand surveys released this week. MTN remains the ‘Most Admired African Brand’ in the Brand Africa 100: Africa’s [c]
PwC has released findings of the Family Business survey at a time when the East African family businesses have seen mixed performance over the last financial year (pre-Covid-19), with 46% experiencing growth and 31% seeing [c]
With reports of digital piracy increasing by more than 60 per cent in some countries during the past 12 months, INTERPOL is launching a new project to tackle this fast growing crime area. With EUR [c]
As services suspended for Kenya’s latest lockdown have resumed at speed, GeoPoll has unveiled its latest pan-African poll showing Kenyans are more worried than ever about the financial impact of Covid-19 and the accompanying restrictions. [c]
Healthcare consulting firm, Salient Advisory, has launched a health care report calling on donor agencies, governments and impact investors to accelerate the impact and scale of African health-tech innovators working in supply chain. The report, [c]
Scammers are constantly searching for new ways to steal users’ data. Last year, a completely new category of opportunity became one of the most profitable scams for fraudsters. They extensively used COVID-19 related spam letters [c]
MultiChoice Kenya, the home of Kenya’s most-loved video entertainment brand, has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth Sh2.3 million to the Ministry of Health intended for people in high-risk areas and those at the frontline in support [c]
The GSMA has shared details of its health and safety plan for MWC21 Barcelona. The plan was developed in coordination with and approved by the Catalan health authorities responsible for the regulations governing MWC21, including [c]
The entire globe is currently undergoing one of the largest and most complex vaccination campaigns in history, and, not surprisingly, scammers and sellers on the dark market have been eager to make a profit off [c]
Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes. And no event or incident has illustrated this than the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Amidst the calamity and uncertainty brought on the global population by the [c]
The Coronavirus is wreaking havoc on everything in our lives. It’s hard to find something that hasn’t been impacted in a major way as we attempt to limit the spread of the virus. Cloud security [c]
It’s over a month since we ushered in a New Year. But unlike the other years, most of us welcomed 2021 while locked within our houses (or compounds), as Kenya was (and is) still under [c]
MTN has announced the donation of $25 million to support the COVID-19 vaccination programme in the continent being spearheaded by the African Union (AU). The donation will help secure up to 7 million doses of [c]
Since the government, through the Ministry of Health, confirmed the country’s first Covid-19 case in Nairobi on March 12, 2020, the government then embarked on a daily exercise of providing updates to the public, at times more than [c]
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