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 | The 18th annual PAMRO conference will take place from 27-30 August 2017 at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa... read |
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 | The names of the talented African screenwriters selected to be part of the Realness Screenwriter's Residency, were announced at the Cannes Film Festival ... read |
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 | The Namibia Start-Up Festival for entrepreneurs, takes place this week, 9-10 June 2017, at the Warehouse Theatre in Windhoek... read |
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 | This year the Zanzibar International Film Festival celebrates 20 years with the theme “Finding Joy”... read |
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 | Nigerian technology innovation centre, Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), and Google for Entrepreneurs have launched PitchDrive, a three week, five-city European tech hub tour... read |
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 | Researching user-generated content on Facebook and Instagram can provide significant insights into what people think and how they feel... read |
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 | The Saco Conference on ‘Creative Economy and Development' has revealed seven emerging creative economy trends... read |
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 | iflix Africa will make iflix's Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) service available to over 500 million consumers across the African continent... read |
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 | The first edition of the Design Market, an event to celebrate and promote contemporary design in Africa, will open its doors on June 3rd and 4th 2017 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire... read |
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 | UN study: Digitisation of Kenyan farmer payments helps tackle poverty... read |
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 | Candace van Zyl With the shift from product-focused to customer-focused business in most organisations in the modern world, CRM software is at the forefront of customer satisfaction... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Matthew Barclay of Meltwater, Brett St Clair of Barclay Africa and Justin Spratt of Uber SSA kicked off IMC Conference 2017 at the White Space in Red & Yellow School Cape Town with a session focused on big data, how AI will fundamentally change the world of work and its specific business implications... read |
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 | The 2017 Mobile 360 - Africa conference, which will take place from 11-13 July 2017 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is now open for registration... read |
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 | The Board of Healthcare Funders of Southern Africa (BHF) invites health journalists from across southern Africa to enter the inaugural Health Journalist of the Year Titanium Award... read |
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 | A new Board of Censors has been put in place to regulate and control the media and film industry in the digital era in Zimbabwe... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg In the South African retail and manufacturing sectors, promotions have become a popular tool to attain growth... read |
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 | Ernst Lass With the majority of modern brand content now residing on social media channels, how do you create social media advertising that stands out? More importantly, how do you do this on a consistent basis within a quick turnaround timeframe? read |
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 | Wynand Smit You can have all your communication channels lined up and ready to go, your agents trained to help via phone, email, SMS, web chat and via social media, but you could be missing a trick... read |
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 | Anton Moulder ... and why technology ‘makers' are taking their place... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Businesses are slowly but surely switching their big data outlook from one of fear to one of appreciation of its usefulness. Gareth Mountain, Olico executive, explains how you can use responsive lead generation to effectively turn your marketing into a profit centre... read |
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 | GE is bringing new digital infrastructure solutions to the Kenyan market by connecting software, apps and analytics to industrial businesses, enabling them to operate faster, smarter and more efficiently... read |
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 | Mobile technology is rapidly transforming the way business is being conducted in Africa, particularly in the healthcare industry, as a result of greater internet connectivity... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Microsoft 4Afrika, Wollo University and Tulane University's Centre for Global Health Equity (CGHE) have joined forces to launch a new AppFactory Academy in Ethiopia... read |
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 | There will be no spur of the moment Twitter rants by Rwanda's presidential candidates, as the election commission has ruled that it must pre-approve all of their social media updates... read |
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 | Kenyan threats to media ahead of August polls: beatings, harassment of journalists and bloggers go uninvestigated... read |
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 | ITN and Getty Images announce exclusive global distribution partnership for sub-Saharan Africa... read |
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 | Ruth Cooper World-renowned graffiti artist Wise Two, known for his mystically and ritualistically inspired art, chats to us about being Kenyan with Indian roots, cultural influences and how street art can empower for Bizcommunity's #AfricaMonth. read | |  | Leigh Andrews Warren Moss, founder and CEO of Demographica, was the only judge from Africa in the annual BMA B2 Awards, which recognise the top performing Business to Business (B2B) marketers around the world. He shares tips for success in B2B marketing and how they're now set to empower black-owned agencies in the marketing and communication space... read | |
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 | Issued by Bizcommunity.com To coincide with Youth Month and CSI Month we're publishing a two-month Content Highlight burst aiming to provide our 464,000 local and global readers with a comprehensive snapshot of the state of CSI projects and programmes in our region... read | |
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 | Issued by Creatrix The Hardy Boys worked closely with Creatrix to write and produce Stories for Life embodying the notion that the heard word and music are essential ways of transmitting creativity and literacy to very young children... read |
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 | Issued by Kantar TNS How should TV and social media be used to maximum effect? Kyle Findlay of Kantar TNS South Africa wins silver for his paper, “Four tips for using TV with social”... read |
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 | Sora Halake Tests are underway to determine the genetic sequence of the Ebola virus behind an outbreak in Central Africa... read |
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 | Mpumi Nhlapo Once the darling of the US retail industry, Sears has become a poster-child of what happens when poor strategy meets brutal levels of digital disruption... read |
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 | Hellen Nachilong The Dar Rapid Transit Agency (Dart) in Tanzania has renewed its the search for the second operator on the bus rapid transit (BRT) system after initially failing to find an investor... read |
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 | More than a century after a colonial railway gave birth to modern Kenya, the country is betting on a new Chinese-built route to cement its position as the gateway to East Africa... read |
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 | A new report from FAO indicates that harnessing the vast but informal cross-border trade in Africa can contribute to improving livelihoods... read |
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 | Egypt announced Monday, 29 May, a social welfare programme worth $2.5bn to include increased subsidies and tax exemptions for the country's poorest as inflation reaches record levels... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg While the road ahead may still present significant challenges, some of Africa's most long-standing internal trade barriers are beginning to show signs of falling. We interview David Williams, Maersk Line Africa chief executive and global head of Safmarine to find out more... read |
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 | Pauline Kairu Kenya is one of the eight countries that will get financial and technical support to eradicate mercury during gold mining and processing... read |
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 | The Diaz Wind Farm, Namibia's first venture into this form of clean energy, aims to bring an additional 44MW to the country's national grid... read |
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 | Investing in Africa's beef and dairy industries could be a boom for global agriculture, but it does come with some baggage... read |
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 | Bennie Langenhoven African civil aviation is said to be five to nine times riskier than the global average. Therefore, investment in regional air and ground safety can contribute to the continent's attractiveness... read |
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 | Ethel Phiri, Palesa Natasha Mothapo A large portion of Africa's people relies on several indigenous plant species for subsistence. But their agricultural importance is undervalued and they often play second fiddle to more commercial crops... read |
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 | Expansion into African markets is not a decision that should be taken lightly... read |
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 | Dan Shepard Affected countries require funds to build more resilient and climate-smart economies... read |
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 | In this year's Gartner mobile app survey*, results have shown that more than a quarter of organisations globally have not built, customised or virtualised any mobile apps in the last 12 months read |
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 | Technology and the impact it will inevitably have on the sector is at the forefront of all the conversations in the African utilities space... read |
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