AFRICAConsolidating gains: 2008 Research Industry Survey results
[Jane Delorie] Each year the Marketing and Social Research Association (MSRA) takes a close look at the health of the East African research industry. The survey records actual revenue of member agencies for the previous calendar year and asks agency heads to forecast future growth. 7 Jul 2008 13:02
AFRICASabinet Gateway to establish African online journal archive
Sabinet Gateway has been awarded a US$1.8 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to create an African online journal archive. The archive will contain purely African content, making academic inputs from all over Africa available for research purposes to local and international organisations and academic institutions. 4 Jul 2008 12:29
AFRICAInvestors look to logistics, transport
[Praveen Ojha] Financial deals in Africa's transportation sector: shipping and aviation dominate the industry landscape in early 2008. 12 Jun 2008 06:24
AFRICAHow mobile technology is facilitating development work
[Zachary Ochieng] The advent of mobile technology has transformed and facilitated the work of a number of NGOs involved in various forms of development work, mainly relief and advocacy. Nothing attests to this better than a report recently released by the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation. 21 May 2008 13:55
AFRICAHow to succeed in the African market
Want to do successful business with Africa? Here are some tips to help you do just that... 16 Apr 2008 13:02
AFRICAUsing crowdsourcing for real-world innovation
US - One of the promises of the Internet, and especially Web 2.0, has been moving companies closer to their customers. A new survey released today, 12 March, by The Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), an organisation of senior-level marketing executives, finds that 62% of marketers surveyed have been using crowdsourcing to help them shape the future of their products. 12 Mar 2008 12:53
AFRICAMore Black women in the US marketplace
Miriam Muley, CEO of The85%Niche, and previously Executive Director of Diversity Growth Markets at GM, has authored a recent paper describing opportunities to serve "a vital source of incremental business (that) has waned in recent years." 5 Mar 2008 09:26
AFRICACNBC Africa survey provides some interesting insights
CNBC Africa conducted a small survey by means of an on-line questionnaire, and though the sampling is too small as a base for definitive, the results have proved valuable. There are some significant differences in responses from South Africans and respondent in the rest of Africa. 11 Feb 2008 13:18
AFRICAEconomic impacts of software piracy
A new study released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has made a strong economic case to tackle software piracy in Africa. 31 Jan 2008 15:13
WEST AFRICAPress harassment hinders Niger's development, watchdogs warn
Press freedom groups agree that an increase in arrests, intimidation and harassment of journalists in Niger is impeding development in one of the poorest countries in the world. 16 Jan 2008 07:32
SOUTHERN AFRICASynovate and c.i.a in the NOW
The Consumer Insight Agency (c.i.a.) has teamed-up with Synovate, one of the world's largest market research companies, to quantify its unique study of South African society – the NOW project. 10 Dec 2007 08:30
AFRICAData breaches more expensive every year
When an organization loses a customer's, employee's or citizen's personal information, the fallout burns everyone involved. 30 Nov 2007 10:10
ZIMBABWEZimbabwe can't calculate inflation
Zimbabwe is so short on consumer goods, the government can't even calculate inflation, the chief statistician said on Tuesday. 28 Nov 2007 09:48
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