Posts by Alastair Tempest

With both GDP and internet penetration on the rise, India offers a promising market for online retailers. However, lagging performance in areas such as logistics is holding back growth, according to…

Adler, a British company that specializes in corporate gifting, asked 100 people to draw famous logos. Each participant was given paper, some coloured pens, and a list of 10 iconic…

Amazon’s business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce marketplace, Amazon Business, recorded over $10 billion in annualized sales as of September 2018 and is estimated to bring in $52 billion in sales and $31…

The WTO has probably never been needed so much as at present with increasing trade wars between the US and China, the UK separating from the EU (‘Brexit”) and other…

The annual African Economic Conference (AEC), jointly organized by the African Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Development Programme, to discuss pertinent issues affecting the…

The recent Intercom survey of 500 US business leaders (reported in Forbes) on Chatbots claims that business saved an average of $300,000 in 2019 thanks to chatbots, with the greatest…

At some point ecommerce in African countries will only grow and expand if it can sell across national borders. This point obviously differs between countries – the national ecommerce marketplace…

This month UNCTAD issued its annual ecommerce report, which shows that Europe remains by far the most prepared region for B2C ecommerce, with 8 countries ranking in the top 10…

Continuing on another security issue, the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI) is designed to advance research in digital finance and accelerate financial inclusion in developing countries. FIGI is led by…

Readers of this Newsletter will be familiar with EFSA’s concerns over cybercrime in South Africa and on the Continent. We have pointed out that the majority of people living on…