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Branding Human Capital

April 12, 2021 africa / agribusiness / Agriculture / AI / artificial intelligence / Asia / Business / developed / developing countries / Development / Education / entrepreneurship / human capital / innovation / investment / Jobs / machine learning / population / stunted population / technology / Western World

Always thankful to be among thinkers, policy makers, influencers and decision makers, and on Wednesday December 6th, 2017 at the 27th Annual Martin J Forman Lecture series held at one of the Think Tanks in Washington DC, the President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim was the keynote speaker as the podium has been graced by the likes of the 25th Lecturer Rajiv Shah, then the Senior Advisor at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and now the President of the Rockfeller Foundation. After attending these series I have learnt that the lecture series was established in honor of…

Africa’s COVID-19 solution lies in information and not isolation-A look at Hubei vs New York

March 31, 2020 africa / America / Ben Kazora / China / Corona / Covid19 / Diaspora / Health / Medicine / New York / Pandemic / Singapore / Spanish Flu / USA / Western World / World

The black death pandemic is estimated to have killed up to 60% of Europe which was an estimate of 450 million people in the 14th century. Today a virus can travel first class on KLM to Africa and infect millions In Taiwan, when an infected person leaves their home or turns the phone off the police and local authority will be alerted and the person will be visited within 15 minutes The Co-100 app shares when the person tested positive, their nationality, gender and age. Africa’s Advantage in the war with COVID-19 Interesting to note how the richer nations have been first…

Branding Time: Cultural Construct

January 16, 2020 africa / America / branding / calendar / Canada / China / communication / cross-cultural branding / Cultural New Years / Culture / Europe / France / gregorian / intercultural / Islam / Israel / julian / Multicultural / Russia / Time / Ukraine / USA / USSR / Western World

I hope you made the transition into this New Year exactly as you needed it to be… among family, friends and loved ones…. sufficient food and drinks to keep everyone around the table savoring the exchange…. with love and candor…. in laughter, joy and harmony…. Closing 2019 and entering a new decade 2020… another memorable 525600 minutes of happiness, sadness, successes, failures and many emotions stemming from life experiences that we can now call a thing of the past and we work to envision 31536000 seconds (31622400 on leap year) of what is to come. As an Ethiopian born North…