TikTok in Kenya: the government wants to restrict it, but my study shows it can be useful and empowering: Every day, 750 million people around the world engage with Tiktok – the short-video sharing app. Kenyans are among its top users. According to a Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023, 54% of Kenyans sampled used …
Empowering Tech: Services of Modern Software Firms: In the realm of technology, specialised software development companies play a crucial role in driving innovation and efficiency. These firms offer a broad spectrum of services that cater to the dynamic needs of various industries. One of the key services is cloud computing, which provides businesses with scalable, …
Empowering Deaf youth for a future of employment and success: iSchoolAfrica’s inaugural Deaf Developers Programme: Creating Inclusive Workplaces and Fostering Tech Talent for a Diverse Future Johannesburg, November 2023 – As this year draws to a close, the 2023 cohort of eight from the iSchoolAfrica Deaf Developers Programme have graduated. This programme emerges as a …
Hyper-femininity can be subversive and empowering – just ask Barbie: I found Barbie again during 2020’s COVID lockdown. Indoors, confined to Juicy Couture tracksuits, I was missing excuses to express my hyper-femininity through clothing, as I had done pre-pandemic. Collecting Barbie dolls became a way to display my love of femininity in all it’s fun, …
How just walking around – even when accompanied by an adult – is empowering for children: The 15-minute city has, in recent months, become the focus of conspiracy theories. Politicians and pundits have described it variously as “an international socialist concept”, a “dystopian plan” and a surveillance tool “that would make Pyongyang envious”. Quite what …
Empowering a Better Future with New Technologies and Virtuous Innovation at OPPO INNO DAY 2022: OPPO last week held its annual technology event, OPPO INNO DAY 2022, in an online format streamed live. Themed ‘Empowering a Better Future’, the event showcased OPPO’s determination to enrich its four Smart Initiatives in smart entertainment, smart productivity, smart …
Cohousing is empowering people to fight back against a global housing crisis: The debate around how to fix the global housing crisis usually hinges on whether more market or more state is required. Some people stress the need for additional housing stock and less regulatory red tape, so that the market can create it. Others …
Empowering young South Africans through entrepreneurship: With high unemployment rates, particularly amongst young South Africans and those finishing college and university, creating employment opportunities is integral in moving our country forward and improving economic growth – providing a sustainable future for these young people who are ready to enter the job world. Young South Africans …
Gender washing: seven kinds of marketing hypocrisy about empowering women: 'We're all about you.' jesadaphorn At a time of so much focus on how women are held back and treated unfairly, corporations spend multiple millions telling us what they are doing to empower women and girls. When this makes them seem more women-friendly than they …
South Africa in the news: New deadline for “Atoms Empowering Africa” Online Video Competition announced: Rosatom has moved the deadline for the 6th annual competition of online videos to February 15 due to popular demand. Rosatom says the participants from the age of 18 to 35 residing in African …: “South Africa” – BingNews Covid-19 …
Konke Kuya Vuma: empowering ordinary people to be extraordinary: Konke Kuya Vuma, a wholesome new campaign from Vuma that aims to educate end-users on the power of connecting communities and empower more people through access to connectivity, time, data and opportunity, has officially launched. Konke Kuya Vuma speaks to the dreams and aspirations of all …
Wireless Solutions Empowering South African and Sub-Saharan Africa Communities to Connect: Pretoria, November 2, 2020 Who is Miro? MiRO is a leading value-added distributor of broadband wireless, Wi-Fi, networking, VoIP, SD-WAN, IoT, security and IP video solutions. Over the past 17 years, MiRO has accumulated and embedded their experience and expertise to supply powerful, flexible …
World Menopause Day: how cultural representations of ‘the change’ are empowering women: In an episode of the comedy Absolutely Fabulous entitled “menopause”, Patsy starts to experience hot flushes and night sweats. Forced into a menopause support meeting, she is regaled with tales of memory loss, sweating, sexual decline and incontinence from other women. One suffering …
Why it’s not empowering to abandon the male pseudonyms used by female writers: Portrait of the writer Vernon Lee by John Singer Sargent. Wikimedia In a letter to James AH Murray in 1879, the writer ME Lewes wrote “I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot”. She perhaps would not have been pleased by …
Empowering women lies at the centre of controlling population growth in Africa: It's projected that Africa's population will double by 2050. Shutterstock I think about the future of my continent in terms of three questions: Are Africans healthy? Do they have access to a good education? And do they have opportunities to apply their skills? …
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Empowering Firewalk with Davina – a Africa interest event taking place on 2017-11-24 19:00:00 in United Kingdom I am organising a firewalk which will challenge your self belief of walking 10-12 feet on hot coals. Overcome your fears and break through your own internal barriers. Late October I, along with 15 others will be putting …
You are Beautiful! Empowering Young Women – a Beauty interest event taking place on 2017-06-21 00:00:00 in United States at Waunakee Village Center 333 S. Madison St. Madison United States – Add your South African Event here. Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?