Tag: decentralisation
Decentralised water reuse tackles water scarcity
South Africa confronts multiple water challenges during National Water Week commemorations. National Water Week serves as a wake-up call to the country’s deepening water crisis. Climate change drives extreme weather, threatens water quality and impacts water security.
Connecting people and spaces through technology
As everyone knows, the business world is going through an accelerated evolution, where technology is being implemented to drive efficiencies across businesses. This is also true for communication and collaboration tools and platforms. While many tools most certainly are customer-facing, technology has come a long way in enabling better collaboration, inclusiveness and productivity among employees - which ultimately affects the bottom line.
Why blockchain has a place in modern banking
Although the world of crypto-related financial services is in turmoil at the moment, its underlying blockchain technology has a vital role to play in the future of banking and other financial services. In the world of finance, we are currently seeing real consensus between the traditional and the Web3 players that the combination of secure private banking, blockchain technology and Bitcoin custodianship is the future and holy grail of banking.
The race for the immutable tulip
Warren Buffet, the most successful investor of all time, calls cryptocurrency 'Tulip Mania'. Cryptocurrency, the most successful investment of all time, doesn’t seem to care. Now a decade on, governments are scrambling to work out how they can get a slice of the tulip pie.
How flexible workspaces can enhance the circular economy
The idea that every morning office workers wake early, jump into polluting cars and overcrowded trains, and travel many miles to their place of work will soon seem inconceivable. The pandemic has highlighted the fact, that it as a model that’s already had its day.
The changing landscape of high-speed connectivity
Internet access has come a long way from the R28,000 it cost for a 256kbps connection in 1995. Even prior to the lockdown, almost 500,000 homes and more than 114,000 business premises were connected to fibre according to FTTX Council research from the end of June 2019. Of course, having high-speed access does not necessarily solve all problems.
