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Important News from the SA Consumer Goods and Services Ombuds
The Consumer Goods and Services Ombuds CGSO) is the official body to which consumers complain on any retail issue – off-line and online. EFSA works closely with the CGSO on…
Read MoreCybercrime Update – And New UN Convention Planned
This Newsletter has strongly recommended that more is done to prevent cybercrime for many years. We are delighted that the ECOM Africa conference in April has that issue on its…
Read MoreAnti-Money Laundering Activities
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Britain’s financial watchdog, has fined the UK subsidiary of Nigeria’s Guaranty Trust Bank $9.3m for what it says are further failures in its anti-money-laundering systems and controls. “These…
Read MoreOpportunities, events and Publications
WIPO and WTO Course on Intellectual Property The course is designed to improve the capacity of policymakers to develop national expertise in international IP law and policy issues. The focus…
Read MorePopulation Trends – Africa Catching Up
In January the global population reached 8 billion but China’s population statistics showed a drop in the total population for the first time since the Great Famine of 1963. India now becomes…
Read MoreWomen in Business in Africa
According to research from the research company, TaiwanPlus, Angola has the highest percentage of women-owned businesses globally. 35% of Angolan women own a business, Guatemala was in second place (24.9%). Interestingly, only 9.9% of these women own established…
Read MoreRewarding Musicians Via an App
COVID made it far more difficult for musicians to make a decent living. Grammy-nominated Kenyan musician Bien-Aime Alusa of popular group, Sauti Sol, has co-founded a digital streaming and payment…
Read MoreSpace-X’s Starlink Project
In 2020 this Newsletter reported on the Starlink project by Elon Musk’s Space-X enterprise. At that time it was considered that SA would be active in the project, but it…
Read MoreWIPO – 2022 Saw Africa Climb Up the Global Tech Ladder
The 15th edition of the Global Innovation Index released recently by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ranks Mauritius, South Africa, and Morocco, which have significantly moved up closer to…
Read MoreUnderpaying IT Staff in Africa
As San-Francisco-based AI development firm OpenAI’s dream of achieving general artificial intelligence (AI) picks up speed (see the article on Big Tech above), reports of how it used 200 underpaid Kenyans…
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