Enabling Employee Mobility Through An Employer Of Record Is A Great Way To Retain Key Skills
By Simonetta Giuricich, Chief Operating Officer for Playroll A key focus of any HR department is retaining key skills. A big part of this involves building an appealing and enabling company culture that attracts top people and keeps them in the organisation. But while investment into organisational culture undoubtedly helps to build a company’s reputation […]
8th Edition Connected Banking Summit Southern Africa-Formerly Africa Digital Banking Summit-Innovation And Excellence Awards
Accelerating Digital Inclusion and Sustainable Transformation The 8th Edition of the Connected Banking Summit Southern Africa is set to take place on May 24, 2023, in Johannesburg, South Africa, bringing together top executives, experts, and leaders from the banking and financial services industry. The summit, organized by the International Center for Strategic Alliances (ICSA), is […]
Ad Dynamo By Aleph appoints Carl Jordan Regional Sales Director, Sub Saharan Africa
Ad Dynamo by Aleph, a subsidiary of Aleph Group, Inc. has appointed Carl Jordan to the position of Regional Sales Director. Jordan will be in charge of Ad Dynamo by Aleph’s business strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) region. He will bring a wealth of experience to his new position, having worked at the intersection of […]
WTM Africa 2023 Reshapes The Future Of Tourism In Africa
WTM Africa 2023, the leading travel and tourism event in Africa, has officially opened its doors on 03 April 2023. The show is back to pre-pandemic numbers with over 5,000 registrations, almost 600 exhibitors, 49 new countries, 200 expert speakers and over 80 hours of content sessions. The event also has 9,200 pre-scheduled appointments, a […]
EDISON Alliance: Bridging the Digital Divide
Interview with Børge Brende. President, World Economic Forum Teresa Clarke, Chair of Africa.com interviewed Borge Brende, President of World Economic Forum about the EDISON Alliance Initiatives in Africa following his travels with U.S. President Kamala Harris to Zambia. The World Economic Forum’s EDISON Alliance is committed to expanding its Lighthouse Network—which aims to close the digital […]
Ivorian Technology Entrepreneur and Smartphone Designer Wins World Literacy Award 2023
Alain Capo invented a smartphone that lets people communicate in at least 16 of the languages spoken in Ivory Coast. Last year, he told the Reuters news agency that he had made the phone so that people who cannot read and write were able to use smartphones. Speaking at the ceremony at Oxford University in […]
Ugandan-based Network Helps Journalists Become Specialists in the Environmental Beat
Frederick Mugira, founder of Water Journalists Africa, the largest network of journalists on the continent reporting on water. Mugira, an award-winning journalist based in Kampala, Uganda, founded the network to share ideas and provide training. From investigative reporting on the impact of a large agricultural industry in Cameroon to how plastics and water pollution are […]
Is Rwanda the Right Solution for Boats of Asylum Seekers Arriving on British Shores?
Interior minister, Suella Braverman, says she is convinced Rwanda is a safe country for the resettlement of asylum seekers, but she has declined to set any deadline for the first deportations there. The British government is hoping to send thousands of asylum seekers more than 6,500km away to the East African country as part of […]
Here are a Few Chatbots Built by Africans that can Function in ChatGPT’s Stead
OpenAI’s products, such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, might be the poster boys. But similar chatbots have been springing up in Africa, albeit more silently. One notable trend among them is how they function on social messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. This method makes adoption easy since WhatsApp is practically ubiquitous in Africa. Statista says […]
What Democracy Means for African Voters
One way to evaluate potential democratic backsliding is to examine nationally representative public opinion data. We’ve done so for three west African countries that have yet to hold elections in 2023: Sierra Leone (June), Liberia (October) and Togo (December). Drawing on recently collected data from Afrobarometer, a non-partisan research network, researchers identified four themes prevalent […]
