Platforms power the world’s most valuable companies, but it will get harder and harder to capture and monetize their disruptive potential. The world’s most valuable public companies and its first trillion-dollar businesses are built on digital platforms that bring together two or more market actors and grow through network effects. The top-ranked companies by market […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The increasing ability of machines to learn and act intelligently will absolutely transform our world. It is also the driving force behind many of the other trends on this list. The Internet of Things (IoT). This refers to the ever-growing number of “smart” devices and objects that are connected […]
Search Engine Optimization Techniques in 2019. User experience signals were HUGE in 2018 from a SEO ranking perspective and they are even more important in 2019 The internet is the wild west and your public facing website can be reached by any user (current clients, potential clients and people simply searching for answers) with access […]
The first cryptocurrency created by a major U.S. bank is here — and it’s from J.P. Morgan Chase. The lender moves more than $6 trillion around the world every day for corporations in its massive wholesale payments business. In trials set to start in a few months, a tiny fraction of that will happen over something […]
Almost 90% of worker time will be augmented or automated by intelligent tech The skills crisis could cost 11.5 trillion dollars Redistribution of work roles in the United States, 2017-2028 New tech has already changed the skills we need Intelligent tech will mean different things to different workers RESEARCH REPORT In Brief Our ground-breaking economic […]
OBizR is a location-based local business review, travel guide, and citizen-generated open data platform for Africa. “OBizR Sierra Leone” is the local guide to finding the best places to eat, shop, sleep, bank, drink, learn, exercise, relax, watch a game, buy medication, do business with the government, NGOs, and Foreign Missions in Sierra Leone. On […]
At present Sierra Leone is moving to reform its educational system to improve on student performance in public examinations, raise computer literacy beyond the current 2% and incorporate ICT courses at the tertiary level to meet the 21st Century workplace demand. The country’s education ministry and non-governmental organisations/institutions would like to see the establishment of computer labs in […]
An idea to deploy hundreds of low-cost energy-efficient computers in every chiefdom, every district, in the country emanating from the mind of Tamba Lamin In January, 2012, in a typically Sierra Leonean Satan-stamping-Jesus-lifting speaking-in-tongues fiery interdenominational Christian service at the Miatta Conference Center in Freetown, to end the week long Presidential-declared Fasting and Prayer Week, […]
I congratulate the Government of Sierra Leone for taking the bold step of creating websites for almost all Government Ministries, Institutions, Secretariats and Commissions. Some of us living in the Diaspora and at home have long been waiting to see it happen. I can now proudly talk more about Sierra Leone to strangers and refer […]
Joomla Security Primer I wish security was measured on a scale of 1 to 10. But it’s not a scale, instead, it’s considered by most security experts as a total philosophy, and a set of tools and actions. This does not mean it cannot be measured, and taking singling Joomla out is foolish. But looking […]
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