Increasing Environmental Sustainability – Do We Always Need Eating Utensils When Ordering Food Online?
Last night 3 of us in the Tempest household ordered an Asian take-away which came with chop sticks. We now have enough chop sticks or plastic knives and forks to…
Read MoreThe African Union Joins The G20
As difficult as it will be for the AU to speak with one voice for 55 countries, the decision at the recent G20 Summit in India to admit the AU…
Read MoreBRICS Summit – Picking Up the Bits
SA is giving itself a pat on the back for hosting the 15th BRICS Summit in August. The highlight was the acceptance of 6 new BRICS members Egypt, Ethiopia, Argentina, the…
Read MoreOpportunities, Events and Publications
EcommerceLive, Sandton, 12 September Join us at this conference in September. We will be holding a meeting for EFSA members in the afternoon. https://www.ecommercelive.co.za/ The AfriLabs Annual Gathering 2023, Kigali, 11-13…
Read MoreSAITEX 2023
The SAITEX exhibition took place on 18-20 June. EFSA took the stage on the last day to look at ecommerce and in particular at cross-border opportunities. We were delighted to…
Read MoreChina-Africa Trade
The Chinese have been very keen to forge trade agreements to benefit their ecommerce exports in SA and elsewhere in Africa. In that regard, EFA was invited to a meeting…
Read MoreThe Russian Amazon – Yandex – Expanding in Africa
Yandex, which is a major tech company (the 8th largest globally) with a wide range of interests including ecommerce, digital marketing and SEO measurement, entertainment, B2B machine learning, is looking…
Read MoreKWeb Ecommerce Transformation Conference
I spoke at this conference in June on sustainability and ecommerce. During this year we have picked up a number of indicators that ecommerce consumers want online businesses to take…
Read MoreFintech Awards for Financial Inclusion
10 Southern African startups have received awards for their solutions to bridge the gap in financial access for underserved communities as part of the Fintech Challenge organised by the Southern…
Read MoreRwanda Hopes to be the Fintech Capital of the Continent, While Kenya and Nigeria Look at Taxing Cryptocurrencies
Two of Africa’s biggest fintech players are expanding their operations in Rwanda, which is pushing to position itself as a strategically important hub for the fintech sector by revamping its…
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