What Uber riders leave behind …

Every day, passengers leave items behind in their Uber rides. The annual Uber Lost & Found Index provides a snapshot of riders’ most commonly forgotten items and most unique lost items. It also highlights which cities are most forgetful, which times of day...

Tourism and its role during Covid-19 outbreak

The Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Zurab Pololikashvili led a high- delegation to the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva to further advance the two agencies’ coordinated response to the worldwide Coronavirus...

Business confidence sinks in Q1

After a small increase in the fourth quarter, the RMB/BER Business Confidence Index (BCI) slumped by eight points to 18 in the first quarter of 2020 – a 21-year low. More than eight out of every 10 respondents therefore perceive prevailing business conditions as...

Hybrid cloud enables disruption

Kathy Gibson is at a Dell Technologies webinar – The cloud makes it possible for all companies to provide world-class IT infrastructure to their users. “But there are different types of disruption going on,” says Nigel Moulton, global chief...

How tech can help companies beat Covid-19

Kathy Gibson is at a Dell Technologies webinar – With the news that Covid-19 has been declared a pandemic, digital transformation has become a pressing issue for organisations around the world. Doug Woolley, GM Dell Technologies South Africa, explains that, on...
Web inventor warns of online gender abuse, AI discrimination

Web inventor warns of online gender abuse, AI discrimination

World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has published an open letter warning that continued lack of web access and a growing crisis of online harms are fuelling discrimination and abuse against women and girls — and threatening global progress on...