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As I write this I’ve just finished moderating my final conference session of the year at Seatrade Maritime Middle East Virtual. With myself in Singapore, speakers in Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong, some bleary-eyed colleagues in the UK running the show, and an audience of hundreds across the Middle East and Asia, the hour long live discussion on supply chain resilience did not require me to even leave my apartment. It would be easy to dismiss 2020 as a year to forget, but that wo...

Special to The T&D In an effort to educate and champion the hemp industry’s growing impact in the state, South Carolina State University 1890 Research & Extension held the Next Wave of Hemp webinar on Dec. 3. In partnership with Charleston-based BrightMa Farms, S.C. State 1890 hosted the two-hour webinar via WebEx, an online web conferencing platform. More than 160 viewers tuned in to gain insight from industry leaders on how South Carolina builds an industrial supply chain and...

Business Technology Trends and Predictions December 17, 2020 16:48 ET | Source: Research and Markets Research and Markets ResearchAndMarkets.coms offering. As business models for creating value continue to shift, new business strategies are constantly emerging and digital innovation has become an ongoing imperative. The monthly Business Technology Journal delivers a comprehensive treatment of these strategies to help your organization address and capitalize on the oppo...

Art Attack - fortnightly visual arts reviews with Ace Wagstaff and Tai Snaith. Shoot the Messenger - fortnightly theatre news & reviews with Fleur Kilpatrick. Drawn Out - monthly chat about comic books and graphic novels with Bernard Caleo. Please email talks@rrr.org.au for all interview requests. ABOUT THE PRESENTER Richard Watts has many years experience working in the arts industry, including five years as the Artistic Director of the youth arts organisation Express Media, seven years on th...

Kenya’s proposed privacy Bill Kenya’s government wants to solve the problem of not being able access private information stored on devices such as mobile phones, and it wants to do this with a new bill. What’s in this bill: Kenyans who own mobile phones or communication gadgets will be required to provide any information or data needed by the government in the interest of national security. This includes emails, SMS, WhatsApp messages, or any data that the government deems a t...

Image Credit youtube It’s been a tumultuous year filled with uncertainty, social distancing, lockdowns and travel restrictions with South Africans finding ways to escape, travel and connect with the real world. And What We Watched 2020 – this year’s South Africa viewing trends on Netflix – reflects those high and lows. This year, South Africans more than doubled the amount of their Netflix viewing compared to 2019. At the start of the year (pre-Covid lockdowns from Jan – Feb 2020), So...