The Promise of AI and Data-Driven Decision-Making in Africa’s Healthcare Future

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In 1924, Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for pioneering the electrocardiogram. This diagnostic tool for heart conditions ...

How an old-school lawyer and financier is rehabilitating a controversial industry, but with mixed results

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How excited would you be about the industry you work in if your profit potential formulaically contracted quadrennially, super powerful politicians hated it, and ...

Developer shortage is behind the current (poor) state of innovation

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A black and white collage swirls on a hospital computer screen: an MRI scan. Even to the trained eye, it’s difficult to see anything amiss. But an AI-powered computer ...

Crawl Neutrality: How Google domination of the internet can be handled

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Today, one company—Google—controls nearly all of the world’s access to information on the internet. Their monopoly in search means for billions of people, their ...

A Business case for Health Data Banks

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The practice of medicine often requires making the most of a tragic situation, learning from illness to help people stay healthy. Look no further than the act of ...

Why Media companies must embrace e-Commerce

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E-commerce has become an essential part of today’s world, and media publishers who haven’t already gotten on board with it should immediately start finding strategies ...

How early stage startups can deal with the changing VC landscape

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Benchmark’s Bill Gurley tweeted in April 2022, “An entire generation of entrepreneurs and tech investors built their entire perspectives on valuation during the ...

It’s time to re-imagine the meeting room for the Hybrid workplace

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Investing in employee experience is more important than ever, as the workforce collectively ponders what it wants. After a tumultuous couple of years, record numbers ...

How Digital Workforce Can be a Cure to Unemployability Crisis?

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South Africa’s unemployment rate gets media attention every quarter when Statistics South Africa releases its report on the country’s state of joblessness. Right ...

Open Data is not Open to all

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The cliché “Data is the new oil” appears in many discourses from various sectors of life, be it in business, civil society, or in government. All over the world, ...

Why connectivity matters for South Africa

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As the world moves towards an increasingly digital future, expanded connectivity infrastructure has become a defining feature of a modern economy. It allows people ...

Lessons from the Peloton Downfall

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Peloton had a truly impressive run during the beginning of the pandemic: In the first quarter of 2020, subscribers more than doubled from a year earlier, and The ...

Banking as a Service: Weapon for banks against disruptors

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Years, and sometimes decades, of patchwork additions as new products and services were added have left many banks with a real tech headache. Now, as they struggle ...

The Future of the Filling Station

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The filling station as we know it is an endangered species. As electric vehicles gradually make up a larger share of cars on the road, entirely new kinds of service ...

The value of a startup act for South Africa

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Towards the middle of last year, I was fortunate to be part of a panel discussion during which the question ‘does South Africa need a Startup Act?’ was posed. The ...

Digital Transformation - Business case for in-person meetings

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As someone who works at a digital-first organisation, it’s been incredible to see how the past two years have accelerated digital transformation across Africa. With ...

Asynchronous work: Solution for our new remote reality

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The long-awaited workforce revolution has finally happened. Almost one-quarter of office jobs are fully remote. Millions of people are no longer stuck in offices ...

Cryptocurrency year in review - 2021 The year crypto took centre stage

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The world of crypto in 2021 was buoyed by a number of high profile institutions and businesses investing in crypto at a far greater scale than previously seen, driving ...

The evolution of Collaboration in the Covid19 era

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Collaboration tools are nothing new – they have been around for many years, but the events of the last two years have accelerated their adoption as well as innovation ...

Oura Ring - the ultimate health wearable

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Among its accomplishments to date, Oura (which is pronounced like “Aura”) deserves a spot on any list of crowdfunding projects that have turned into real businesses. ...

Black Friday 2021: What if we swapped shopping for subscriptions?

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The countdown to Black Friday is officially on. With some 10 days to go until the biggest shopping day of the year, consumers have their wish lists at the ready ...

Why succession planning is an opportunity

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As leaders, one of our biggest fears is no longer having a meaningful role to play in our organisations. For many business leaders, the fear of obsoletion can be ...

Meet the new Principal of the UCT Online High School

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Bolstering the launch announcement, the University of Cape Town is proud to confirm the placement of its UCT Online High School Director and Principal, Ms Yandiswa ...

Meet the worlds Pet gear favourite brand from South Africa

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Rogz, an internationally acclaimed brand that designs, manufactures, and distributes pet gear to 90 countries, took top place in the toys category

Why You Should Care the Elon Musk robot

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Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help with those repetitive, boring tasks people hate doing. Musk suggested it could run to the grocery store for ...