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 at the Niss...
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 Virtual Innovati...
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 and that ...
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, including t...
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 that darker,...
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 business. It...
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 May on the...
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 effects of C...
“If implemented, this would ensure a more coherent, coordinated and fairer response that saves both lives and livelihoods”. Among other things, the resolution underlines WHO’s key role in promoting access to safe, effect...
The real world is fragile. It is unnerving, to say the least, to see how a virus can cause such massive disruptions across the globe. The digital world is fragile as well, as rampant cyberattacks have shown us. It is no ...