Posts by Alastair Tempest

One year after the date of implementation of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), TechRepublic recently published the results of a global survey on data privacy. It found that…

Experian has recently issued a press statement admitting that it handed over personal and company data to an individual claiming to represent a well-known company. This process took place in…

The Information Regulator has asked for comments on the implementation of the POPIA. Closing date Monday, 31 Aug. EFSA intends to submit a comment on the requirement for companies to…

Harvard Teaches How to Build Scalable Businesses to Solve African Problems Harvard Business School professors are launching a new online course to teach entrepreneurs how to build scalable businesses designed to solve…

We apologise for not being able to bring you an interview of Women in Ecommerce by EFSA Board Member Mpho Sekwele this month. We promise to return to this very…

The minister of the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT), Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, launched the Drone Council South Africa this month. The Council is a non-profit organisation which aims to encourage growth of the SA drone economy, and plans various programmes…

We carried a report about the collapse of the market in flowers due to COVID a couple of months ago, when Kenyan farmers were forced to throw away millions of roses…

We have not reported in this Newsletter on online laundry services before and so it is good to see that Easy2toofacil, started in June 2018 in the Cote d’Ivoire, has seen strong…

Mipango has launched an app that gives users free financial advice on iOS and Android devices. Mipango is a personal finance mobile application that enables users to manage their income, expenses,…