by Dianne Bayley | Nov 17, 2020 | Featured Articles
Much has been made of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and how it will impact the jobs of today, writes Martin Ndlovu, Skills Programme Manager, Microsoft 4Afrika. 4IR is the age of intelligence, with an increasing overlap between the physical and technological...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 17, 2020 | Sustainability
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the challenges and opportunities of Africa’s development landscape, former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Monday in a lecture organised by the African Development Institute in Abidjan. “We have the same problems but what we...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 3, 2020 | Sustainability
Everyone knows by now that due to a combination of leadership, environment, social ecology, demographics and as yet unknown biological and other factors, Africa has been spared the worst of the havoc that COVID-19 has wreaked on other parts of the globe and was...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 26, 2020 | Innovation
One of most the prominent challenges facing Africa is providing food security for its citizens, notes Amrote Abdella, Regional Director: Microsoft 4Afrika. While many farmers still rely on traditional techniques to coax a living from the land, there are opportunities...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 18, 2020 | Sustainability
If your response to vendors plying their trade on South African streets is one of pity and despair, you need a lesson on the power of Africa’s informal economy, according to author, entrepreneur and informal business guru GG Alcock. Alcock says that the informal...
