Jan 30, 2014
South African universities have been advised to form partnerships with all professional bodies in the accountancy sector to create better opportunities for students and increase the number of sorely-needed qualified accountants across the country. This requirement...
Oct 11, 2013
Cape Town-based GoMetro, a mobile start-up company in the transport sector, is a global finalist in the VentureOut Challenge, an initiative of infoDev, a World Bank agency. GoMetro was selected from among 113 international entries to compete against 12 other mobile...
Oct 8, 2013
SAP Africa and the World Bank have announced their intention to develop a framework for collaboration on skills development. The document was signed by Pfungwa Serima, CEO of SAP Africa, who is currently in the US for a series of meetings focused on refining synergies...
Sep 20, 2013
The World Bank has joined forces with the Open Data Institute and the Open Knowledge Foundation in a three-year project aimed at helping policy-makers and citizens in developing countries understand and exploit the benefits of open data. The project, launched today at...
Mar 28, 2013
The new BRICS development bank could rival the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank if it can reconcile its competing agendas. Geoffrey Wood, professor of international business at Warwick Business School, says the BRICS nations make up 40% of the...
