Collaboration, resilience and sustainability in African aviation

Preparing Africa for the future of aviation

The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) and Air Senegal concluded the 54th annual general assembly (AGA) in Dakar, Senegal on 13th December, 2022. The government of Senegal gave active support to the event. The Assembly had the theme, “Acing the Roadmap to Sustainable African Aviation”. It called upon African airlines and air transport stakeholders to act […]

Before migrating to cloud here are things to consider

PETs as guardians of our digital world

Most companies, these days, when asked about their IT infrastructures, or their data lifecycle management with especially storage and deletion, there is one word that hangs in the corner of most stakeholders’ mouth, it’s called cloud. It seems without existing in the cloud, most companies can’t survive. However, there is a caveat with the usage […]

7 reasons why you should read privacy notices (Privacy Policies)

PETs as guardians of our digital world

There are many privacy notices in the world located on various websites. Not a lot of people read them and there are good reasons for that. They are long, quite ambiguous, and laden with flowery fluffy marketing terminologies that would make any human brain squirm. Facebook’s privacy notice has about 5,000+ words, Twitter’s privacy notice […]

Fit to fly with one identity in Africa

Preparing Africa for the future of aviation

Airlines are working with IATA to digitalise the passenger experience at airports with contactless biometric enabled processes by a new industry standard. It is termed the One ID initiative. The new industry standard has been developed by the International Air Transport Association, which is the voice of the world’s airports. The aim of the standard […]

Three future privacy considerations 

PETs as guardians of our digital world

On the 8th of December 2022, I was opportune to be at the inaugural Picasso Privacy Award in London. The award housed various privacy professionals and other advocates of privacy, including Chief Executive Officers, CTOs, etc. The aim of the award, according to the organisers, is to celebrate and help establish a movement in the […]

Innovation and airport ground access

Preparing Africa for the future of aviation

With the recent change of government in Kenya came the removal of fuel subsidy. Aviation in Africa will have to begin to plan not only for a future of renewable energy but also for disruptions that will come with innovations in ground access. Global fossil fuel consumption subsidies in 2021 have been estimated at $440 […]

Old employee appraisal is dead. Welcome, modern daily review!

On communication, managing crisis and public governance

Staff performance evaluations or employee appraisals are crucial for any organisation since they assist in determining employees’ contributions and an appropriate level of compensation for their efforts, such as a pay raise (pay rise) or award or reward or promotion or a combination of these. Effective quality assessment techniques also assist businesses in determining where […]

Technology dictates pace, nature, direction of energy transition

Nigeria: Time for backward integration, import substitution (2)

The discourse around energy transition has always been housed within economics especially because of its impact on global macroeconomics policy responses. But at the same time, it directly affects man’s survival tendencies from the very beginning of human existence (with detailed and unambiguous historical background and progressive trend that dates to the “stone age” of […]

On various data protection points

PETs as guardians of our digital world

In this week’s article, I will touch on three key areas. First, the case of the Data Protection fines on Facebook (now Meta). Second, I will touch on the politics behind Data localisation and Globalisation and their place in data privacy. Third, I was in a privacy conference in London, 1st December 2022, and the privacy […]