Browsing: Digital transformation

• Less than half of media industry CEOs are optimistic that 2024 will be a good year
• 12 per cent of the media industry CEOs expressed low confidence
• Slowing in subscription growth – as well as increasing legal and physical harassment also tops media industry CEO’s worries

Less than half of media industry CEOs are optimistic that 2024 will be a good year for the industry reeling from the changing business models.

An estimated 47 per cent of editors, CEOs, and digital executives say they are confident about the prospects for journalism in the year ahead, with around four in ten (41 per cent) uncertain, and 12 per cent expressed low confidence.

The rising costs of running media organisations, declining advertising revenue, and a slowing in subscription growth – as well as increasing legal and physical harassment, are among the top concerns of media executives.

The report titled Journalism, Media, and …

• Financial technology has become an important support for the development of countries around the world.
• Digital technology, data resources, and intelligent technology can promote digitalization across the globe.
• At the global meet, experts provided insights on the opportunities and challenges of digital transformation in the financial sector within the Arab world.

Investors across the world are closely monitoring digital transformation, financial inclusion and sustainable finance trends in the Arab world. These revelations emerged as a top agenda during the just concluded Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Director and Advisor at the Secretary General Office–Union of Arab Banks Rajaa Kammouny highlighted the challenges banks within the Arab world are facing while calling for readiness to tackle future challenges. 

Digital transformation in the Arab World

Under the Digital Transformation of Financial Sectors in the Arab World and the Role of Financial Technology in Economic Diversification discussion forum, experts offered …

IPv4 was the first version of IP to be used, and despite having been officially released in 1983, it is still the most widely used version to identify devices on a given network.

According to the CA report, with the imminent exhaustion of IPv4 address space, the length of IP addresses was increased from 32 bits to 128 bits, creating almost 340 undecillion addresses. The two address sets are not compatible, implying data sent using IPv4 address cannot be delivered to a recipient using IPv6 addresses.

The IPv6 was developed and standardized, as the next-generation Internet Protocol in 1996, with initial assignments for use in 1999, had the main goal of massively increasing the number of IP addresses available. Over the past year, major content providers and access networks have started offering IPv6 services to ordinary Internet users.…

One of the many lessons learned from the pandemic is that SMEs need to embrace digital transformation, not just to weather unplanned challenges but because it will help them be more competitive and stable. Digital enablement is not just a means of survival. It is a way for SMEs to conduct business more efficiently, which in turn can empower them to expand their operations and earnings further. 

Being nimbler than their big business counterparts, SMEs can quickly rethink their marketing strategies and adopt new technologies to enhance their offerings faster. Digital innovation provides extraordinary opportunities for SMEs. It empowers them to implement new market models, has a greater line of sight across their business, improves traceability, and meet their customers, service providers, and logistics partners, in many instances, all on the same page. 

In the digital trading space, solutions such as import/export platforms, automated cargo-tracking and digital reporting of non-tariff …

A report by The Women in Tech Africa Summit 2019 showed that despite receiving 50 per cent less venture capital funding, global technology firms led by female entrepreneurs typically achieve a 35 per cent higher return on investment than those managed by men.

In the first half of 2021, African startups raised US$1.19 billion. However, female CEOs raised just 14 per cent of the financing, up from 2 per cent for the same period in 2020.

The African Development Bank puts the funding gap for women entrepreneurs in Africa at US$42 billion.

This should encourage more investors to take a gamble on women-led businesses in Africa’s tech space as they offer promising returns. 

Women in tech on the continent not only drive significant development in the African tech space, but they also simultaneously inspire young girls venturing into tech across the continent to do the same. …

SMBs share a similar technology adoption trend to SACCOs exposing them to Cybersecurity threats that are detrimental to their growing business.
Speaking during the launch of a cyber security sensitisation campaign, Dimension Data East and West Head of Managed Security Services Dr. Bright Mawudor said there’s a looming misconception that threat actors are only focusing on large enterprises yet small businesses equally possess sensitive data that is lucrative to attackers.…