Posts by Alastair Tempest

The East African venture advisory firm Kinyungu Ventures believes not and has published a white paper (“Chasing Outliers: Why Context Matters for Early Stage Investing in Africa”) detailing what it says is a “misalignment” between…

Microsoft’s Team seems to be the favourite online conference carrier (author’s note, we tried it and found it a challenge for a micro body like ours with limited IT experience,…

Substack has become the favourite online platform for thousands of writers and content creators to get their work published and distributed. Its ease-of-use and simple fee model appeals to content…

Like its neighbour, India, more than 95% of all retail in Bangladesh goes through neighborhood stores. There are about 4.5 million mom-and-pop stores in the country and the vast majority…

Delivery Hero, the Berlin-headquartered global food and grocery delivery giant has launched an independently managed early-stage venture capital fund, DX Ventures, to invest in startups all around the world. The…

This Newsletter  has reported on the ongoing activities of the World Trade Organisation working party on ecommerce. At their last meeting of 2020, the co-conveners of the negotiations  (Australia, Japan, Singapore) said…

Last month we reported the passing of the Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Acts in SA. We will be looking at these laws in detail during the next 6 months. Meanwhile McAfee…

In the previous edition of the Newsletter we reported on a number of challenges that Big Tech faces this year, and we asked if this was the beginning of the…

As we know, BREXIT has introduced a new regime for cross-border UK-EU sales. The seamless flow of products has been interrupted. VAT, which under EU rules is collected in the…

We reported in the previous edition of the Newsletter on the launch of the AfCFTA on 1 January 2021. The benefits of removing intra-Africa tariffs and national non-tariff barriers will…