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LAMIN MOMODOU MANNEH
This year, 2019, is a very promising year for the African continent: There is a lot of optimism about the return of the Africa rising sentiment... read
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Concern is growing internationally at the continued internet and news blackout in Zimbabwe, amid reports of a violent crackdown aimed at quelling dissent... read
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AFRICA
MIMI KALINDA
Perceptions matter: reputation management trends in Africa 2019...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
PETER KHOURY
When you study the world's most iconic work from recent times, you see patterns that may give you a direction of where everything is headed - at least in the short term. However, the world is extremely complex currently, and nothing is clearly defined, especially in the long term...read
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AFRICA
New APO Group CEO, Lionel Reina, gives Bizcommunity.Africa his trend predictions for 2019...read
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ZIMBABWE
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined more than 20 rights organisations and the #KeepItOn Coalition to call for authorities in Zimbabwe to restore internet and social media services... Read
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AFRICA
Deutsche Welle has launched a weekly YouTube show to engage the youth on the African continent on issues facing them in Africa... Read
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AFRICA
About 1000 Nigerian villages will benefit from the 10,000 African Villages Project, an initiative of the Chinese Government to provide digital TV access to rural communities across Africa... Read
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NIGERIA
StarTimes has agreed to broadcast the University of Lagos television station (UNILAG TV) as part of its bouquet of channels... Read
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RWANDA
Alibaba is assisting the Rwandan government with enabling a digital economy... Read
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NIGERIA
The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) and telecommunication operators have called on the government to review the National Broadband Plan, which had penetration targets for both fixed and mobile broadband... Read
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KENYA
Statement of the chairperson of the African Union Commission on the terrorist attack in Nairobi... Read
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GHANA
Authorities in Ghana should immediately investigate the killing of journalist Ahmed Hussein Suale Divela... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ESTI KILIAN
It's that time of year again when everyone in the tech industry takes out their crystal balls and starts making predictions about what's going to happen in the industry in 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
PINE PIENAAR
The global biometrics market is growing rapidly. In fact, research indicates that the global market is growing a compounded growth rate of 22.9%... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KALLIEBREE KEYNERD
Kalliebree Keynerd, head of social media at Joe Public Connect, predicts we'll see more of the following six trends over the coming months... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DALI TEMBO
If there's one thing we love as marketers, it's squeezing ever-evolving consumers into deceptively neat PowerPoint boxes. Too many customer segmentation reports are based on over-simplified, outdated data - just ask 'Bargaining Busi' and 'Premium Pam'... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LYNETTE HUNDERMARK
"This is not the year of the mobile phone". The African consumer is tired of hearing this... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
AURYN HISCOCK AND MIKHAILA HUNTER
Amidst two extremes -- audience apathy on one end and backlash against perceived social washing on the other -- the ad industry has emerged fresh-faced and focused: Ready to prove that we're thoughtful, attentive partners who listen when our audience speaks, able to hold a conversation that doesn't always place ourselves and our interests at the very centre of it... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GODFREY PARKIN
CX is everything. Businesses boom because they offer awesome differentiated customer experience, online and offline. The big trends in 2019 will follow this rule... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ANDY HADFIELD
The social impact space is buzzing. Social entrepreneurship is the next "rock star" career, there's more investment flowing into social ventures... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MICHAEL BARETTA
Despite great efforts from government and NGOs, South Africa still faces a number of societal and environmental challenges... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JOHAN BOTES
In this age of overflowing inboxes, diaries filled with meetings sandwiched between conference calls and yet another round of performance assessments, managing time and focus requires Herculean effort... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
When Marian Salzman, one of the world's top trendspotters, invited me to discuss all things social marketing trend-related over coffee at the end of 2018, I jumped at the chance. This is the first of three overviews of our talking points... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
If you haven't got around to booking for the BizTrendsLIVE! yet, here's some info so you avoid FOMO... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ANDREW SMITH
We believed that e-commerce was such an obviously better way of shopping. We were wrong... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NICK GRUBB
People first engage with people and brands for many reasons related to the first-impression they create - but they stay engaged when there is recognition of, and comfort in the VALUES of those people and brands... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MIKE SILVER
As we begin 2019, our industry sits quaking in its ethically sourced vintage leather boots. Panic and anxiety around data, consultants, insourcing, etc. But has this all not been self-inflicted? Is this all the final acknowledgement of an industry with an identity crisis? Read
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NIGERIA
Mobile penetration has significantly increased across Africa, with Nigeria remaining the largest mobile market of about 162-million subscribers and a penetration rate of 84%... Read
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AFRICA
The number of video streaming platforms active in Africa has exploded over the past few years as the continent responded to the global shift from linear TV to on-demand viewing... Read
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GLOBAL
D&AD has exhibited the work from this year's Shift graduates to a host of leading industry figures, including the winning projects for the 2018 briefs... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
By 2021, Gartner predicts that 25% of digital workers will use a virtual employee assistant (VEA) on a daily basis... Read
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GLOBAL
According to a new global report by in-store media company Mood Media, sensory experiences drive 9 out of 10 shoppers back to stores... Read
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GLOBAL
Euromonitor International has released its annual list of top emerging trends that provide insights into consumers' changing values and explores how their behaviour is disrupting business... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
What are the key issues and trends related to doing business in Africa in the private equity space? Read
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ETHIOPIA
GEBISA EJETA
After rapid economic growth averaging 10% every year between 2004 and 2014, Ethiopia has emerged as an engine of development in Africa. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ELAINE JACK
Urbanisation continues to be one of the most powerful megatrends reshaping our world. It is a shift that is creating countless problems, but even more opportunities... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TIM SMITH
The quick answer is sustainability, that is both environmental and economic sustainability... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
PAUL BURRIN
The world of work as we know it is changing. With new technology making it easier to work anywhere, anytime, the traditional 9-5 is effectively dead... Read
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ANGOLA
NJ AYUK
President João Lourenço meant business when he promised to revamp Angola's economic engine, namely the national oil company, Sonangol... Read
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AFRICA
MELANIE BATEMAN
The caterpillars of the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), an invasive moth, can potentially feed on over 350 different species of plants... Read
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AFRICA
JOSEPHINE WAWIRA
Africa's travel and tourism industry continued to record impressive growth in the past year. The continent hit a 63 million high in international tourist arrivals in 2017, as compared to 58 million in 2016... Read
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EAST AFRICA
NELSON MANDELA OGEMA
East Africa could soon be facing the threat of a citrus fruit sap-sucking pest with the potential to collapse its regional fruit industry... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CLIVE SMITH
Africa is regarded as the next investment frontier as it presents massive opportunities for infrastructure, digital and social impact investment, among others... Read
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NIGERIA
Marginal oil & gas fields are not particularly attractive to the major players due to their relatively small prospects, but they do offer great opportunity for smaller independent African and non-African companies... Read
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NIGERIA
RAHMAN AKINTAYO SANUSI
Nigeria spends an average of $22bn (N7.92trn) each year on food imports. Its major food imports include wheat, sugar and fish... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
WANDILE SIHLOBO
One challenge that became apparent by the end of 2018 was environmental related, as grain and oilseed producing areas of the country experienced dryness which led to delays in plantings... Read
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UGANDA
Gemalto, in partnership with SCINTL, has been awarded the contract for the supply of a Border Management System including airport self-service e-kiosks at Entebbe Airport, Uganda... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Peter Jack, founder and director of EMG Events Agency shares his top five tips for finding the best venue for your next event... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Experts provide insight in to the emerging trends in African energy and infrastructure projects. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
One of the most important trends to emerge in recent years is that it is increasingly difficult to identify individual risks in isolation... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MILES B MARKUS
Some people suffer from repeated attacks of malaria. These can occur weeks to months or longer after contracting the disease... Read
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AFRICA
Airbus and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit have announced the top 10 African tech startups that will take part in the latest Airbus Bizlab #Africa4Future accelerator programme... Read
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Eartha Kitt "My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions." Martin Luther King "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Maya Angelou "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." |
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