Archive for author: G-Forum

dubai-institute
COVID-19

Institute of Design and Innovation launches Agile Factory to train local communities

To address the needs of local communities in the UAE during the Covid-19 pandemic, faculty and students at Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation, DIDI, have launched Agile Factory, a start-up initiative that...

global
COVID-19

No one has ever attempted stopping the global economy and restarting it

Some stress had already begun to appear in the global oil markets at the turn of the year. The US and Europe were in the middle  of an unusually warm  winter, which reduced  energy demand. In the US, investors ...

Nisan
COVID-19

Nissan manufacturing face shields for healthcare workers in Japan, US, UK, Spain

Nissan began making protective face shields for healthcare workers in Japan who are on the frontlines in the fight against Covid-19. The current plan calls for making 2,500 shields a month. Production started a...

CovHack
COVID-19

Innovate4Good focuses on food supply chain resilience with CovHack challenge

Innovate4Good, I4G, a sourcing, networking, and innovation platform for the impact startup ecosystem, is inviting innovative and ambitious changemakers from the MENA region and beyond to join its CovHack Virtua...

Luis-Ortega
COVID-19

Why digitisation of the supply chain ecosystem is crucial right now

Digitisation has been a buzzword for some time now but, given the current business scenario globally, it is being seen in a new light. The current pandemic has forced businesses to manage their processes better...

Christian-Schuhmacher
COVID-19

Will surge in telemedicine be sustainable post the pandemic or will it retreat?

In March, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. In many countries including the UAE, a stay at home order was implemented and a big number of industries were affected as a result, i...

Kaspersky
COVID-19

Kaspersky warns lax security resulted in 726 million cyberattacks this year

Gaping holes in online security measures has resulted in more than 726 million cyberattacks launched from online resources this year. As 375,000 new types of malwares are detected daily,  experts are warning th...

Thierry-Nicault
COVID-19

Change is testing our readiness to lead with values in the Middle East

The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing all of us to re-imagine how we live our everyday lives and do business in the Middle East. It’s transforming society, not least in the way we work and how we view the role of bu...

websummit-panel
COVID-19

CIOs must reprioritise and re-strategise, key theme in GCF’s Covid-19 web summit

Global CIO Forum in partnership with Nutanix and ARCON, successfully completed its half day websummit on the theme of Workforce Transformation, CIO Rethink and Reprioritise. The half day event was staged on 20 ...

WHO-lady
COVID-19

UN: Just hoping coronavirus will bypass Africa would be a deadly mistake

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, and Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Solomon Dersso, issued a joint call for urgent measures to mitigate the ripple ef...