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Linked to the lack of IDs is the lack of addresses. One of the major challenges for ecommerce in Africa is the lack of addresses. Jumia reported that up to…

In October we reported that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has estimated that millions of Africans do not have an ID. According to the World Bank, roughly half a billion people in Africa are…

The EC has proposed a European-wide platform that helps resolve disputes between consumers and European e-merchants. The Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) platform is provided by the European Commission to make online shopping…

My old colleagues at the World Federation of Advertising  have recently estimated that by 2025 over $50 billion will be wasted annually on ad fraud worldwide. IAB Europe has released a European-level ‘Guide…

Mastercard data shows that almost half of all spend in recent months was online, for every $100 spent in MEA, nearly half ($47) was spent on ecommerce in May compared to $35 in February 2020. Earlier…

Business Insider Intelligence’s latest report, The Global SMB Neobanks Report, shows that digital-only banks with industry-leading capabilities that do not operate physical branches or rely on legacy back-ends (known as Neobanks) have recently increased their business rapidly. Europe has…

Michelle Chivunga and I have just completed a paper on Digital Disruption in Africa for SAIIA (https://saiia.org.za/research/digital-disruption-in-africa-mapping-innovations-for-the-african-free-trade-area-in-post-covid-times/). Inevitably we had to tackle the issue of Data Sovereignty, which covers 2…

The international policy research body, CUTS, has just produced a very readable report on ecommerce in COVID times – http://www.cuts-geneva.org/pdf/KP2020-Study-Fast_Forward_E-Commerce.pdf and UNCTAD released a study on ecommerce mainly in the…

The EFSA Research Committee, chaired by Prof Adheesh Budree of UCT, has produced a paper outlining the need to ensure adequate data on the development of ecommerce in SA. This…

Every year we pick some trends for the coming year – according to Technopedia in 2021 we should be keeping an eye on the use of 4IR tools for business…