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25Jul

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South Africa News

Industry-led tech solution designed to bring SA’s minibus taxis into the digital age

The Wealth On Wheels (WOW) initiative was launched at the recent Southern African National Transport Conference (SATC) in Pretoria. This initiative, led by the Eastern Cape Transport Tertiary Cooperative Limited (ECTTC) - the business arm of the South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO), in partnership with Ecentric Payment Systems and FORUS Digital, aims to revolutionise the local minibus taxi industry. The initiative seeks to use innovative technologies such as digital cash payments and blockchain to help minibus owners enhance operations and maximise their revenue, while creating a safer and more secure environment for the travelling public. The WOW platform will introduce digital cash payments, advanced fleet and vehicle management systems with GPS, camera monitoring, fuel rebates,...

25Jul

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Tech

NielsenIQ integrates Consumer Panel and Retail measurement data into its NIQ Discover platform – providing clients with a powerful connected user experience

NielsenIQ has integrated consumer panel and retail measurement data into NIQ Discover – enhancing the cloud-based platform’s ability to help brands and retailers differentiate and succeed in a competitive market. High quality consumer panel data brought to life through on-demand technology now live in all 23 NIQ panel markets across North America, Europe, Asia, Pacific, South Africa and Latin America NielsenIQ (NIQ) announced the integration of Consumer Panel and Retail measurement data into its NIQ Discover platform, providing retailers and brands the Full View™ on a single platform. NIQ Discover enhances the client experience by leveraging a new cloud-based architecture and aggregation engine that provides faster data access and greater user flexibility. NIQ's Discover platform fo...

25Jul

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Events, Mauritius News

Mauritius is the mission of the documentary

In 2019, Mauritius witnessed one of the biggest international acts, Major Lazer, to ever perform on the island. This is the story of the people who made it possible, an insider’s view of the challenges faced to put Mauritius on the international music map. The footage captured looks at everything from the conception of the event down to the production of the event as well as unexpected challenges along the way. Unknowingly, this would be the last blockbuster event before the pandemic. This is their story. Mauritius was the mission, music was the weapon. About Adrenaline Factory Founded in 2015, Adrenaline Factory is a Communications Agency offering 360-degree marketing, branding & communication strategies and implementation services as well as events management services. A sh...

Closing SA’s IT skills gap and reducing off-shore investment ‘requires a shift in thinking’

25Jul

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South Africa News

Closing SA’s IT skills gap and reducing off-shore investment ‘requires a shift in thinking’

redAcademy MD Jessica Hawkey is driven by a passion to drive positive impact in SA CAPE TOWN – Honoured as Top Tech Innovator at the 2024 Wired4Women awards, redAcademy founder and MD Jessica Hawkey is driven by an unrelenting drive to work towards closing the skills gap in South Africa. In doing this, she hopes to play a part in shifting the scales in the highly imbalanced ecosystem of off-shoring work, essentially taking billions of rands out of the economy so desperately in need of growth impetus. Change requires a shift in thinking, but she says this shift is already occurring. Hawkey founded redAcademy to create a skilled pipeline of IT talent for businesses, trained specifically for unique needs within businesses. The young people are work ready in a year because of a carefully cur...

24Jul

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South Africa News, Tech

Security, Ethics and Opportunity – AI in South Africa

Jacques du Bruyn, Managing Director at Flume Digital Marketing Don’t panic – AI isn’t coming for your job. What it is doing is delivering new opportunities, creating new jobs and making work simpler for millions of people. Like the viral quote from Joanna Maciejewska about wanting AI to do the laundry and dishes so she can work on art, rather than having it create art and writing so she can do the housework – which has been interpreted many ways – the opportunity can work both ways. Take the Gap You can work hard to understand how AI operates and get to the front of the Prompt Engineer queue, capitalising on an opportunity to be the person who is able to prompt AI to deliver the specific result – an image, music, video, research or copy – that a client needs. You can also use AI to del...

A global blueprint for good news and constructive journalism – South Africa leading with passion and purpose

24Jul

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South Africa News

A global blueprint for good news and constructive journalism – South Africa leading with passion and purpose

By: Brent Lindeque Newsrooms worldwide are battling. Publications are closing down. Online platforms are becoming “noisy” with irrelevant adverts or almost entirely inaccessible because of paywalls. Readership is dropping. But why? Well, there are many reasons, but the two that stood out at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (DW Media Forum) were a growing despondency to the barrage of negative news that feels almost relentless and a breakdown of trust between readers and brands. Over 1,500 participants and over 140 speakers from more than 120 countries around the world recently gathered in Bonn, Germany, to attend the conference. This event, which serves as a crucial platform for networking, knowledge exchange, and collaboration, covered a wide range of topics, including journali...

Award-Winning Collaboration: Tabanlıoğlu Architects & Miller Holding Honored for Kinshasa Finance Center

23Jul

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Business, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Events, Real Estate

Award-Winning Collaboration: Tabanlıoğlu Architects & Miller Holding Honored for Kinshasa Finance Center

Luxury Lifestyle Awards, a global recognition platform in the luxury industry, is proud to announce Tabanlıoğlu Architects (TA_) and Miller Holding as winners in the category of Best Luxury Mixed-Use Architecture for the Kinshasa Finance Center and Congress Center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Designed by the renowned TA_ and constructed by Miller Holding, the Kinshasa Finance Center transcends its role as an administrative hub. It embodies the DRC's burgeoning progress and bright future. The integrated Congress Center further amplifies this vision, fostering international collaboration and exchange. Founded in 1990 by Murat Tabanlıoğlu and his father, the Istanbul-based architectural firm, with its long family tradition spanning over six decades, demonstrates a professional...

UDB Focuses on Sustainability and Innovation to Drive Uganda’s socio-economic development

23Jul

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Business, Uganda News

UDB Focuses on Sustainability and Innovation to Drive Uganda’s socio-economic development

Uganda Development Bank Ltd (UDB), the country's national Development Finance Institution and the Best Bank in East Africa 2024, has today announced its 2023 annual performance, highlighting its continued pivotal role in fostering economic resilience and sustainable growth across key sectors of the economy. UDB's net loans expanded to UGX1.47 Trillion in 2023, reflecting robust support to the private sector. The Bank strengthened its commitment to providing affordable and patient capital, achieving significant milestones amidst economic challenges. The results, released during the Annual General Meeting held at the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, reflect a sustained effort to facilitate economic recovery. The meeting was attended by the Bank's shareholders, the ...

23Jul

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Business

Beyond the HR buzzwords

The fleeting trends vs the real shifts impacting employee satisfaction and organisational success In just a few short years, the way people view and engage with work, workplaces and their careers has shifted. Remote work, the return to the office, hybrid work, the entrance of AI into the mainstream, and a multitude of other changes make understanding the genuine needs of a diverse, intergenerational talent pool both a challenging and exciting prospect for HR professionals and their organisations, says Alison Palmer, Head of Human Resources at Dariel Software. Minding the generation gap Much has been said about the characteristics of the different generations and their approaches to work and their employers, from Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. What perhaps isn’t as clear is how ...

21Jul

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Business, South Africa News

At the coalface of change

By Arjen de Bruin, Group CEO at OIM Consulting With Coal & Energy Transition Day taking place this month, the discussion around sustainability and coal mining ramps up, as the sector grapples with the desire and responsibility to lower its carbon footprint – but not lose its very reason for existence. Green gung-ho I would wager that all shareholders across every mining or manufacturing company in South Africa understand the onus on their business to ‘go green’; a broad term that essentially encompasses lowering one’s carbon footprint, seeking and utilising renewable energy sources, environmental conservation, recycling, waste reduction and more. Yet in recent times, our initial ‘green gung-ho’ seems to have slowed down. We still want to do this, but now we’re realising that the ...