TECHNOLOGY group Google, cellphone company Vodacom and the Department of Trade and Industry have joined forces in a project aimed at placing 10000 small and medium businesses on the internet for free. The initiative, launched in Pretoria yesterday, provides a boost to the government’s efforts to reduce unemployment by encouraging entrepreneurs to start new businesses, [...]
There are a number of reasons to be worried about the state of entrepreneurship in South Africa and globally. For instance, when one looks at the Gini coefficient – which highlights the gap between the poor and the rich in a country – it is clear that inequality is worsening. In spite of the critical [...]
At the end of the year, most young adults are chilling out, taking a break. One South African project is, however, looking to give them a break of a different kind. From 20 December to 14 January, a five-ton truck equipped with 10 free internet stations and a walk-in meeting area — will travel to [...]
South Africa is squandering a critical economic asset and source of job creation by failing to create an environment for the small and medium enterprise sector to flourish. But the good news is that this can be remedied. This is the key message to emerge from the 2011 SME Growth Index, produced by research specialists [...]
Yahoo! has announced the launch of a new Yahoo! homepage, new Yahoo! Mail and a new Yahoo! News offering for South Africa. This step brings South African news, sport and entertainment content together with the best of Yahoo!’s international media services to offer Yahoo!’s 2.6 million South African users a deeply personal experience. It also [...]
As COP17 draws to a close, the likelihood of nations agreeing to disagree is high. Where does this uncertainty leave business? With ministers from around the world now in Durban for the final stages of COP17, I can’t help thinking that, sadly, all they will do is agree to disagree. But, as long as they [...]
“Everything is digital,” Y&R’s global CEO, David Sable said recently, “but digital isn’t everything.” How do marketers engage with digital without losing sight of what matters underneath all the technology? South Africa has been a couple of years behind more developed markets, largely because a relatively low reach and a lack of knowledge has scared [...]
As heads of state and government ministers start arriving in Durban for the UN climate talks, negotiators are hoping that, come end of the week, some kind of political compromise will have been reached to break the stalemate on a range of issues. The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the UN Framework [...]
