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World Economic Forum Launches Initiative to Enable Equitable and Trusted Use of Data for Global Common Good

Lyndi Meyer 8 December 2020 No Comments

World Economic Forum announces today the first-of-its-kind global initiative on designing a governance framework to responsibly enhance the societal benefit from data Individuals, private enterprise, civil society, research and [...]

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How to empower women entrepreneurs to grow Africa

Lyndi Meyer 10 March 2020 No Comments

This International Women’s Day, women in Africa have a lot to celebrate. Rwanda ranked in the global Top 10 of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Global Gender Gap Report 2020. In [...]

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Why fixing Africa’s data gaps will lead to better health policies

Lyndi Meyer 10 March 2020 No Comments

African countries continue to work towards achieving national and regional commitments to improving data collection and use. But it’s critical that governments invest in relevant, timely and accurate data production [...]

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Artificial Intelligence in Africa – Will 2020 be a Tipping Point for African AI?

Lyndi Meyer 10 March 2020 No Comments

Way back in 2017, one could arguably view as the mainstream awakening of AI’s “Third Coming” by the release of PwC’s study of the economic impact of artificial intelligence on [...]

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4IR in Africa: The reality, opportunities, and risks

Lyndi Meyer 10 March 2020 No Comments

If Africa is to catch up with the rest of the developed world in terms of understanding and unpacking the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), it needs to start with defining [...]

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Blockchain of Things (BCoT): The Fusion of Blockchain and IoT Technologies

Lyndi Meyer 6 March 2020 No Comments

Both Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT) are the two major disruptive emerging constituents of the contemporary internet-enabled era of technology. As per Gartner Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies 2018 [...]

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Industrial blockchain based framework for product lifecycle management in industry 4.0

Lyndi Meyer 6 March 2020 No Comments

Product lifecycle management (PLM) aims to seamlessly manage all products, information, and knowledge generated throughout the product lifecycle for achieving business competitiveness. Conventionally, PLM is implemented based on standalone and [...]

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World Economic Forum 2019: Globalization 4.0 – a better version

Lyndi Meyer 6 March 2020 No Comments

Between 22 and 25 January 2019, the World Economic Forum (WEF), the most important annual meeting of political, economic, scientific leaders and personalities, took place in Davos, Switzerland. The central [...]

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Capturing the fourth industrial revolution a regional and national agenda

Lyndi Meyer 6 March 2020 No Comments

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) — characterized by the fusion of the digital, biological, and physical worlds, as well as the growing utilization of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, [...]

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Public sector monitoring and evaluation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Implications for Africa

Lyndi Meyer 6 March 2020 No Comments

The current era of transformative scientific and technological advances is reshaping traditional government business as it is blurring geographical boundaries and posing a challenge to existing regulatory frameworks. Aim: This [...]

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