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Christian-Schuhmacher

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...

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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

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...

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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 ...

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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...

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Tedros hails WHO’s landmark resolution to accelerate COVID-19 response

“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 sa...

John-Kindervag

Cybersecurity lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic

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....

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WHO: Historic health assembly ends with global commitment to COVID-19 response

At the May 19 meeting of the 73rd World Health Assembly —its first-ever to be held virtually—delegates adopted a landmark resolution to bring the world together to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The resolution, c...

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UN: Building a cinematic bond with refugees, in a time of crisis

Karim Aïnouz is the director of “Central Airport THF”, a documentary which describes the situation of asylum seekers sheltered in the former Tempelhof Airport, in Berlin, and is now available on str...

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WHO report reveals more adolescents are reporting mental health concerns

The report compiles extensive data on the physical health, social relationships and mental well-being of 227 441 schoolchildren aged 11, 13 and 15, from 45 countries. It therefore provides a baseline against wh...