Empowering Women’s Futures: Nurturing Girls’ Passion for STEM and Sustaining Support Across Their Careers

By Megan Clunnie -Technology Divisional Lead for Sub-Saharan Africa at Mastercard Over the past decade, significant strides have been made in empowering women and young girls to pursue careers in Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) fields, particularly in the technology sector. From grassroots initiatives to global programs, efforts have been directed towards breaking down […]

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Ensuring The Health Of Your Workforce In An Era Of Increasing Pandemic-Prone Diseases

Dr Chris van Straten, Global Health Advisor Clinical Governance, International SOS While monkeypox is currently simply an outbreak – not an epidemic and certainly not a pandemic – what it is demonstrating is that we are living in an era of increasing health concerns of pandemic-prone diseases. More evidently it suggests that such zoonotic infections […]

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Navigating The Future Of Work To Build A Workforce Fit For The Future

The great return to work is well underway and the tension between equity and flexibility is in the spotlight as organisations consider the future of their workforce and the fine balance of operational requirements in the face of renewed expectations from employees around flexibility and personal autonomy. Nevo Hadas, Partner at DYDX, discusses what organisations […]

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Five Ways To Safeguard The Workforce Of The Future, Today!

On the back of the findings of the Attacks From All Angles 2021 Mid-year Cybersecurity Report by Trend Micro, the remote workforce remains an organisation’s greatest vulnerability when it comes to cybersecurity. Zaheer Ebrahim, Cyber Security Consultant at Trend Micro, shares five ways businesses can ensure they are not compromised amidst a 47% year-on-year increase in cyber threats globally. From […]

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Characteristics Of A High Performing Workforce

Africa has a long history of a divided and beleaguered workforce, from slavery, to colonialism and apartheid; systems that have governed the continent’s nations showing diminutive importance to human development and the returns on the continent’s economy. The impact of this history is still prevalent today and several businesses have explored methods and solutions that […]

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