The many roles of the CIO

The many roles of the CIO

Looking to the year ahead, CEOs are expected to serve as experts in a wide range of areas – by their investors, their boards, their employees, and the public. “The CEO position is more complex than it ever has been – and CEOs must have a much broader and deeper skill...
Asteroid makes Xmas Eve flyby

Asteroid makes Xmas Eve flyby

Asteroid 2003 SD220 will safely fly past Earth today (24 December) at a distance of 6,8-million miles (11-million kilometers). Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have generated the highest-resolution images to date of this...
Earth rising: new NASA image

Earth rising: new NASA image

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft’s vantage point in orbit around the moon. “The image is simply stunning,” says Noah Petro, deputy project scientist for LRO at NASA’s...
Medical data breaches widespread

Medical data breaches widespread

Stolen medical information is a much more widespread issue than previously thought, affecting 18 out of 20 industries examined in the just-released “Verizon 2015 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report”. However, most organisations outside of the...
Africa’s people power to decline

Africa’s people power to decline

The people power witnessed in 2014 and 2015, for example in changes of government in Burkina Faso and Nigeria, will be proved limited in 2016. A combination of elections, constitutional pressures and financial difficulties will test governments across the region,...
Africa’s MVNOs need to add value

Africa’s MVNOs need to add value

Despite the strong growth of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) globally, the majority of MVNO efforts in Africa to date have been unsuccessful despite happening in countries offering favourable market conditions and plentiful opportunities. That’s...