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The COVID crisis has turned a glaring spotlight on the challenges facing women in Africa. This Newsletter has reported previously on the funding gap for women-owned businesses in Africa and…
Read MoreIt’s All About National Currencies – are CBDC Delaying the Single Currency in the West of Africa?
This Newsletter carried some articles in 2020 on the potential for a single currency in West Africa. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) argued that the adoption of…
Read MoreNews From Africa
Social Commerce Continues to Grow in Africa. A recent study by Caribou Data and the Partnership for Finance in a Digital Africa found that 92% of small and medium enterprises…
Read MoreMobile Money – Airtel Spins Off its MoMo Service
Airtel Africa is spinning off its mobile money arm. This follows discussions in a number of telecom firms on how best to unlock their value by spinning off their MoMo…
Read MoreVirtual influencers
Virtual influencers are becoming increasingly popular, particularly in Asia. These computer-generated personas offer the appeal of a human influencer, often at a lesser price and without the limitations or risks…
Read MoreData Privacy Laws in the USA
Unlike the EU, where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides an overarching set of privacy rules, the USA has only regulated on the federal level health and financial information,…
Read MoreThe WTO Committee on Ecommerce (JSI)
We have reported on the progress of this committee over time. It became far more important for us when the S-G Meme of the AfCFTA Secretariat announced that the AfCFTA…
Read MoreThe European Value Added Tax Regime and Ecommerce
In July last year, the EU imposed VAT on any product entering Europe. However, this blanket approach is applied at the entry point (the so-called One-Stop-Shop or OSS approach). Recently…
Read MoreMiscellaneous
GS1 and the EFSA – Using Bar Codes or QR Codes in Ecommerce Sales EFSA’s Board member, Prof Adheesh Budree, sits on the GS1 Advisory Council. GS1 is an international…
Read MoreWhat is Web3?
Apart from being tech Twitter’s new obsession, the term refers to the next iteration of the internet. We have now reached the 3rd stage of the internet: – Web 1.0…
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