The digital representation of data or personal information, has brought many challenges to protecting privacy rights and thereby protecting individuals...
Ahmore Burger-Smidt and Dimakatso Khumalo 28 Apr 2021
The IAB South Africa is excited to launch A Practical Guide to Data Protection for the Advertising Industry in South Africa...
Issued by IAB South Africa 23 Apr 2021
The IAB SA is hosting its 25th insight event on Zoom this week Thursday, 22 April, featuring speakers Jade Arenstein, Oliver von Wersch and Aisha Mohamed...
Developed and presented by Henley Business School Africa, the unique six-week course is designed to help medical doctors especially transition to virtual medicine and digitise their practices in the process...
Issued by Henley Business School 20 Apr 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated reduced physical human interaction with more people engaging online now than ever before...
Emanuel Osanga 16 Apr 2021
iProspect recently launched Future Focus 2021: Brands Accelerated as the essential read for conscientious marketers seeking to explore and exploit the latest consumer and industry advancements for brand growth...
Issued by Dentsu 15 Apr 2021
Consumers' personal data is shared between tech companies in the third-party cookie ecosystem over 500 billion times a day. That is changing...
Issued by Wunderman Thompson 13 Apr 2021
This third part of the series looks at what marketing leaders need to consider when crafting a strategy to deal with a more privacy-first future...
Anse Leighton & Andrew Smit 12 Apr 2021
Is the rise of the opting in culture eating into the reach of the 'niche'? Will a more mature view of personal information protection eclipse the right target, at the wrong time and place?...
Issued by Kriel & Co 12 Apr 2021
For our #BehindtheBrandManager series this month, we chatted to legal marketing consultant, co-founder and strategic lead at Yolk, Tereza Correia, who currently manages the Andersen brand in South Africa...
Shan Radcliffe 8 Apr 2021
You can get away with delaying a customer's package, cancelling services and delivering a substandard product, but if you compromise a customer's data, you will probably lose the client...
Craig Lebrau 8 Apr 2021
The Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI), which comes into full force later this year, is not something for the healthcare industry to fear...
Justin Malherbe 8 Apr 2021
As we near the end of the first quarter of 2021, we analyse the rollercoaster ride that was 2020 and how it reshaped the F&A space during an unprecedented financial year...
Issued by Monetary Library 1 Apr 2021
One year after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, CEOs are voicing record levels of optimism in the global economic recovery, with 76% of global business leaders predicting that economic growth will improve in 2021...
Mercer's Global Talent Trends 2020-2021 report has revealed four trends that will assist companies during the post-pandemic recovery...
Shan Radcliffe 8 Mar 2021
Data management should deliver an increase in the understanding of the forces shaping markets and businesses. This knowledge will help companies outsmart competitors...
Gary Allemann 8 Mar 2021
No employer wants to pay someone to watch television or play games during work hours. As a result, employers across the globe are turning to employee monitoring technology...
Keketso Kgomosotho, with Johan Botes 3 Mar 2021
Three topics will top the list of priorities for executives in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector in South Africa in 2021...
This article provides you with a starting point, a way to begin honing your perspective and identifying the susceptibility of disruption in your industry: by gauging the past, the present and the yet-to-come...
Issued by Dentsu 18 Feb 2021
By now, it's clear that 2020 was a year of managing the unexpected and looking for the silver lining. This is especially true when it comes to customer communication. After years of digital-led evolution, even the biggest laggards were forced to revolutionise their customer communications...
Brent Haumann 11 Feb 2021
To help organisations set priorities and make decisions that better protect the safety of organisational data, devices and personal information, organisations can empower employees to navigate the change in a way that balances a need for convenience and security by considering habits relating to these three themes...
Francois Kriel, Issued by Kriel & Co 4 Feb 2021
2020 showed us the importance of marketing as a whole. Most importantly, however, it also showed us the undeniable gravity of having an online presence for businesses...
Paul Masuta 29 Jan 2021
Ebony+Ivory presents the Market Segmentation South Africa Series, which will run over the next seven modules, in collaboration with independent media consultant and media coach Gordon Muller...
Issued by Ebony+Ivory 12 Jan 2021
Putting the brakes on business travel and physical offices due to tech transformation...
Johan Botes 11 Jan 2021
Data management has become complicated due to industries generating more data than ever before in various locations across the business. The solution? It's time to simplify data management...
Hemant Harie 11 Jan 2021
In the midst of the planetary emergency of climate change, Covid-19 is testing modern civilisation's preparedness for shocks, across the spheres of finance, economics and technology; global, national and regional governance; global and population health; social cohesion and food security. This is according to Baker McKenzie's new report, Unprecedented: Converging Crises...
Wildu du Plessis 4 Jan 2021
Communicating with all stakeholders has become more important than ever and this will have a significant impact on the trends influencing these engagements in 2021 and beyond...
Karyn Strybos 29 Dec 2020
Track-and-trace applications are being rolled out around the world to contain the spread of Covid-19, but how much privacy will we have to sacrifice in the fight to stay alive? Jason Kpodo-Tay asks...
Issued by Dentsu 21 Dec 2020
In the past few years, people have become fascinated with using their DNA to learn more about themselves, their origins, family trees, predisposition to health conditions and quirky traits...
Caitlin Uren 2 Dec 2020
What happens when the age of big data collides with the age of personal information protection? With just over six months left for organisations to prepare for compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA), this trajectory need not change. Instead it can merge, as long as marketers embrace their role in protecting their customers' voices...
Francois Kriel, Issued by Kriel & Co 26 Nov 2020
In a world caught in the middle of the Covid-19 storm, telemedicine has proven its worth in the medical professional's toolkit this year...
Vanessa Rogers 25 Nov 2020
A landmark survey of more than 1,500 compliance leaders around the world, including in Africa, has revealed major risks associated with digitalisation, with 41% of those surveyed admitting their organisation has already experienced enforcement investigations...
The national state of disaster has been extended to 15 November 2020, and a further extension is imminent. Employers must become comfortable with the regulatory framework under alert level 1. Here are six things to keep in mind to ensure your business is compliant...
Jason Whyte and Laura Macfarlane 4 Nov 2020
In a world where figuring out what will happen today is all but impossible, it's hard to say what the future holds. There are, however, a few things that are abundantly clear...
Fermin Serna 3 Nov 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has many possible applications for business, and can deliver significant benefit and competitive advantage, if it is successfully applied...
Harkrishan Singh 16 Oct 2020
Paula Sartini, founder and CEO at BrandQuantum International writes that privacy management is critical, not only as a compliance tool for legal and compliance practitioners but also as a tool for building trust with customers...
Paula Sartini 1 Oct 2020
The artificial intelligence (AI) market is predicted to reach revenues of $156 billion by the end of 2020...
Francois Kriel, change management consultant at Kriel & Co, agrees that data is no different than oil...
Issued by Kriel & Co 21 Sep 2020
A voice-activated, wearable device the size of a finger, OrCam's MyEye enables the blind or visually impaired to read, perform daily activities, and live more independently...
Gillian Klawansky, Issued by Orcam 11 Sep 2020
PoPIA and data privacy expert and author Ahmore Burger-Smidt will focus on a key aspect of the act in a free webinar hosted by leading legal technology provider, LexisNexis South Africa...
Issued by LexisNexis 7 Sep 2020
Schools are increasingly embracing the digital universe and now the Covid-19 pandemic has stratospherically accelerated the adoption of online communication and digital strategies for South African schools...
The commencement of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act will impact a vast number of businesses, and the construction industry is no exception, says Databuild CEO Morag Evans...
The African Union's Convention on Cyber Security and Data Protection (known as the Malabo Convention) outlines principles which urge all AU member states to respect and protect individuals' rights to privacy online and offline...
The broad, global migration towards virtual platforms following widespread Covid-19 lockdowns has highlighted the need for the digital privacy of children to be properly secured and protected. With more time spent in the digital world, child exposure to digital marketing is growing rapidly...
The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) in South Africa came into effect on 1 July 2020. If you have waited with your compliance project, you need to act fast...
There's never been a more interesting time to be in human resources. This was true a few months ago, before Covid-19, when Sage released the Changing Face of HR research report...
Marvin Opperman 29 Jun 2020
In 2020 new vocabulary has seeped into global consciousness. From 'new normal' to the more practical yet equally disliked 'social distancing', the additions to this year's dictionary paint a bleak, dystopian picture...
Jeremy Springall 26 Jun 2020
The global Covid-19 pandemic has upended life as we know it and will most certainly have deep and lasting effects on society, business, governance and the economy at large...
Bronwyn Williams 25 Jun 2020
The operative provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 will come into force on 1 July 2020...