Globalisation, trade liberalisation and African business

On communication, managing crisis and public governance

Trade liberalisation is the removal or reduction of restrictions or barriers on the free exchange of goods between nations. These barriers include tariffs, such as duties and surcharges, and non-tariff barriers, such as licensing rules, volume of goods that can be exchanged and expatriate quotas. After World War 2, which took place between 1939 to […]

Global economy, energy efficiency, food security, years ahead!  

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

The general worldview, observing from the impact of the ongoing Ukrainian/Russian war, keeps everyone on their toes with regards to the looming global recession and scary food scarcity, plus the obvious energy crisis resulting from the disruptions in global supply chains that link many countries (mostly within the European Union bloc). The expectations about agricultural […]

Emerging regulation and the customer experience

Preparing Africa for the future of aviation

The ASQ barometer is a global snapshot of airport customer experience produced by ACI. The source for the recently released ASQ barometer is the ACI Airport Service Quality Departures – main type programme 2022, which is based on Q3 2022 results working with 271 airports. The Airports Council International, ACI, is the trade association of […]

Enhancing ROI for data privacy implementation

PETs as guardians of our digital world

Quite often there is the question raised by stakeholders about the return on investment for data privacy implementation. There is so much one can present with this. I’ve been in meetings where privacy ROI was questioned. In this article, I intend to summarise those answers for those stakeholders that still doubt the incredible return an […]

Getting the crowd. Lowering fees. Lesson from EAC

Preparing Africa for the future of aviation

About 12 percent of the world’s population lives in Africa. But Africa accounts for less than one percent of the global air services market, says a world bank report (“Open Skies for Africa – Implementing the Yamoussoukro Decision” http://www.worldbank.org).  The report, released then in 2010, states further one of the reasons why Africa is underserved […]

Working with business stakeholders as a privacy professional

PETs as guardians of our digital world

Carlos Magnesium is the CEO of Zen Technologies, and he is a serial digital entrepreneur. Recently, he had the idea to develop an app that would be beneficial to schools and parents alike within his geographic location. The app will allow parents to understand their children’s wellbeing, including academic assessments and other school activities. The […]

On processes in the formation of enterprise in Nigeria (1)

On communication, managing crisis and public governance

I discussed how an individual or group of individuals can become an entrepreneur in my piece titled, “On becoming a business owner” in the Business a. m. of February 28, 2022. In that article, I stated that a business can be established either by one, copying an already existing business and maintaining status quo or […]

Maintaining the data privacy champion function

PETs as guardians of our digital world

In an orchestra, the tenors, the drummers, the flautists, and other members make up the show. Without one function the presentation will be out of sync. In data privacy also, the data privacy function can’t be solely the job of the data protection officer or the data privacy team. For any data privacy programme to […]

Macroeconomic risks and African aviation 

Preparing Africa for the future of aviation

ACI (the voice of the world’s airports) recently published its 11th quarterly assessment to analyse the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, its effects on airports and the path to recovery. In the publication, the aviation industry continues to recover as more countries ease travel restrictions and open their markets. The propensity for air travel along with […]

Influencers and their role in building your brand (4)    

What is a Brand?     

Different types of brand Influencers  According to Influencermarketinghub.com there are about twelve different types of brand influencers, four types are based on the number of audience followers and eight are based on the type of content or niche covered by the influencer. Sports and Fitness. In 2018, cycling was the largest of the sports market […]