“As I said on 8 April, the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most dangerous challenges this world has faced in our lifetime. It is above all a human crisis with severe health and socio-economic consequences”, he ...
Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF’s Research Department, said in a blog post that following the global lockdown in response to the coronavirus, “the magnitude and speed of collapse in a...
As the global epidemic of the COVID -19 plagues the world, we are in danger of not learning from many of our past disasters and to really utilise and re-emphasize the many fields where artificial intelligence a...
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across countries and with the government’s mandate to practice social distancing, retailers have witnessed a rapid surge in e-grocery sales, a development which could cause a se...
Organisations around the world find themselves in different phases of managing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the challenges vary by location, industry and business maturity, identifying and impleme...
Prominent limitations of cybersecurity solutions include the lack of large-scale threat analytics that leverage ML for both structured and unstructured data, the inability to empower end-user devices to detect ...
And fears are growing that this phenomenon is putting lives at risk, prompting some with symptoms to try unproven remedies in the hope of ‘curing’ themselves. UNESCO, the UN educational, Scientific and Cultural...
“We’re all learning all the time and adjusting our strategy, based on the latest available evidence”, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, summarizing the guidance which will be available in full on the agency’s we...
While many organizations already have telecommute policies and solutions in place, they are most commonly for either fully-remote workers or for employees who typically work in the office but need flexibility f...
Given the unprecedented nature of the new coronavirus crisis, it is hard to determine precisely what its economic impact – and prospects for recovery – will be, the Geneva-based trade body said. But WTO econom...