In today’s fast-paced world, traditional education models are not always the best fit for everyone. With students balancing jobs, family commitments, and other responsibilities, the rigid structure of classroom-based learning can feel limiting. The pressure of keeping up with a full-time course load, commuting to...
Today, in the very competitive world of finances, institutions are always on the lookout for new ways to enhance their operational efficiency and provide the best services possible without increasing costs unnecessarily. A white-label trading platform is a modern answer that allows financial companies quickly...
In comparison to other industries, retail banking has historically been relatively slow to pursue technological innovation. Banking executives generally tend to be cautious, focusing their efforts on developing financial products to maximize revenue, with innovation a distant second priority. This approach, coupled with the fact...
The UK Office for National Statistics published a report on Coronavirus and Depression in Adults. They found that the coronavirus pandemic had a bigger impact on deprived areas of England and affected more to adults at risk. The National Statistics' report found that around 1...
After over a year of dismay and disruption, the relaxation of COVID-related public health measures in parts of the UK this summer suggests a potential return to some form of normality, whatever that may look like. Badged as “Freedom Day” in the press, the guidance...
The Mastercard Foundation (www.MastercardFdn.org) has announced that it will deploy $1.3 billion over the next three years in partnership with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to save the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Africa and hasten the...
Covid-19 pandemic has changed and disrupted all businesses. Covid-19 is also the major digital transformation accelerator, taking the digital economy to new heights. Let's take a look at the major business challenges with covid and digital transformation and how businesses can get better prepared...
London’s resilient remote-friendly professional sector could harm lower paid service industries long after lockdown New data shows London has recorded uninterrupted growth in remote working jobs during the pandemic, even when these jobs declined elsewhere in the UK Trend recorded across Europe’s four largest capitals...
Industry sectors such as Finance, Construction, Tertiary, Agriculture, Engineering, Retail among others introducing frequent lateral flow testing to their working environments can help to reduce spreading of the virus across multiple workplaces, reducing transmission and therefore allowing us to open up the economy. Antoine Dreyfus,...
More than 500 Urban Areas Around The World expected to adopt Digital Twin technology by 2025 The need to increase resilience and optimise resource management in light of COVID-19 will be among the key drivers for the growth of Digital Twins over the next five years,...
For the first time the challenge is a global competition, which seeks to identify and accelerate the most ambitious ideas developed by cities in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Bloomberg Philanthropies has launched the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, which seeks to identify and accelerate the...
[caption id="attachment_3186" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Vials with various types of vaccines against coronavirus and container of pills[/caption] Leading Digital Health Expert: “Israel’s national healthcare system, combined with its data and technology capabilities, makes it a unique and optimal beta site for Pfizer and Moderna” In less...
Only 5% of HR professionals expect work to ever go back to the pre-pandemic normal 58% of HR professionals expect a large and permanent increase in remote working Demand is on the rise for connected, specialist HR software The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that it...
The impact of the pandemic on businesses in facts, figures and statistic As we enter the new year, some trends seem to carry over. That includes the pandemic of 2020, which speeded up the digital transformation of many businesses and changed the way we work....
Countries across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are implementing smart city technologies such as smart surveillance along with data hub system for advanced contact tracing of COVID-19 infected citizens, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Manish Chaurasiya, Senior Technology Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Though...
Months of 24/7 occupation have fundamentally transformed the role of the home Consumers’ collective concerns about hygiene, wellbeing and immunity will continue to influence how we live Homes will adapt to become 'blended spaces’, able to fluidly facilitate different kinds of work, rest, recuperation and...
· 23% of UK’s top performing businesses have been supported by local enterprise partnerships and growth hubs · Similarly, 30% of Britain’s strongest businesses have obtained external finance in the last 3 years · New findings come as part of an independent, holistic study into...
[caption id="attachment_2854" align="aligncenter" width="512"] Post-COVID-19 Education: Lifetime Skills Guarantee Scheme Is A Step In The Right Direction, Says NCUB[/caption] The Lifetime Skills Guarantee Scheme is a welcomed step in the right direction, but more is needed to help reduce unemployment in the short term, says...
"Flatten the curve." Do you remember that phrase? It was on everyone's lips back in the spring, when the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began rampaging across the world in earnest. By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber At the time, the idea was that...
[caption id="attachment_2829" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Meet The Team Behind the UK’s Forthcoming Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre[/caption] UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited the construction site of what is rapidly becoming the UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre. He met with scientists, engineers, development, and...
“Keep people healthy to keep countries wealthy”, urges think tank ahead of G20 Health and Finance Ministers’ meeting The joint meeting of the G20 Health and Finance Ministers is set to discuss the ongoing effort against the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. A leaked document showed the...
'During the coronavirus pandemic, people should guard their eyes with glasses or face shields to protect their eyes from virus infection," said Dr. Daniel Laroche, Director of Glaucoma Services and President of Advanced Eyecare of New York. People also need to know, even though there...
· Funding increased by 940% since the beginning of lockdown – compared to the same period last year, making cybersecurity the fastest growing start-up sector in the UK · £496m raised by UK cybersec firms in the first half of 2020 · 44% increase in...
Study shows 60% of Brits do not want to return to the way things were before lockdown and 49% believe they won’t be back to the office full-time until the end of the year or into 2021 Only 26% of full-time UK workers want life...
One of the UK’s leading providers of digital care systems is calling on the sector to be better prepared for the future by utilising agile technology that has been tried and tested throughout the pandemic - with 94% of users finding its coronavirus-specific features beneficial....
The global travel and tourism industry is among the worst hit due to COVID-19 pandemic and deal activity in the sector is muted. Japan too is not an exception, though the country seems to be keen on reviving the industry by introducing new initiatives. However,...
As businesses return to the workplace following encouragement from the Government, employment law and health and safety experts warn that employees must play their part in adhering to occupational safety measures to ensure, so far as possible, a safe return to work. Government guidance continues...
Researchers detect nearly 10,000 exposed databases with more than 10 billion credentials available for the world to see. When databases are left unprotected, hackers don’t even need to hack According to NordPass’s research, the web is swirling with exposed databases. Recently, researchers have identified a...
The numbers show that the U.S.’s performance in response to the pandemic has been shockingly poor, if not disastrous. They reflect a failure to control the spread of new cases, continuing deaths, inadequate testing, and the politicization of decisions that should be purely science- and...
•Luxury purchases will continue to increase locally in Mainland China as Chinese customers do not intend to travel abroad in the coming months, even if travel bans are lifted. •Even though online purchases will strengthen post-COVID-19, Chinese customers still consider visiting the physical store to...
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