by Dianne Bayley | Jul 4, 2023 | Workplace 2020
By Richard Firth – American economist Thomas Sowell once said: “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”While there...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 26, 2020 | Innovation
Using a machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world’s most problematic disease-causing bacteria, including some strains that are resistant to all known...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 19, 2020 | Security and Legal
By Kathy Gibson, IT-Online – Africa is rapidly becoming more connected, more mobile and more tech-savvy – but this is opening the continent up to more cybercrime than ever before. “When you look at cyber-security in an African context, it is a ticking time bomb,” says...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 12, 2020 | Innovation
More than 25 000 people across the globe have accessed realtime knowledge from World Health Organisation (WHO) experts on how to detect, prevent, respond to and control the new coronavirus in the first 10 days after the launch of an open online training. The learning...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 7, 2019 | Report-back
Kathy Gibson was at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town – With violence against women top of the South African mind, it’s appropriate that one of the initiatives adopted by the World Economic Forum tackles this issue. Borge Bunde, president of the World...
