Every year, over $1 trillion is stolen from the people of the world’s poorest countries through corruption. It’s an unimaginable amount of money. In fact, if you tried to count a trillion US Dollars, Dollar by Dollar, it would take you over 30 000 years.
The financial fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the soft underbelly of organisations in ways that nothing else has ever done before.
Franklin Roosevelt said during World War II, “I don’t want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster.”
They say that people are an organisation’s greatest asset. That, although salaries usually account for any company’s biggest expense, good employees don’t actually represent a cost, but rather a intelligent investment that ultimately offers a great return.
Women’s Day is celebrated at various times throughout the year, depending on where you are in the world. In America, the UK and Australia, it’s commemorated in March, while the Canadians celebrate it in October.
Cyberbullying is not a new issue. As far back as 2009, the insidious practice was thrown into the spotlight when American teenager Megan Meier hanged herself after being cyberbullied by an adult neighbour posing as a fictitious boy on the social media platform MySpace. She was three weeks shy of her 14th birthday.
It is almost impossible to gauge the full effect on our children’s mental health and wellbeing that the Coronavirus pandemic and resultant extended lockdown is having.
Much of the transformation that occurs in the world happens during times of crisis. Throughout history, catastrophic events have shaped future generations, and the potential of Covid-19 to change the direction of our future is already very apparent.
During this perfect storm called COVID-19, a lot of so-called solutions in the identity management and trace-and-track solutions industries have sprung-up. The common thread linking them together is the proclamation that fingerprint scanners have the potential to infect the individual touching it. Therefore, according to this prevailing wisdom, contactless biometrics is the best thing since sliced bread.
In recent weeks, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of people and businesses – some not even involved in identity management – proclaiming that “Fingerprint biometrics is dead” and “Give fingerprint scanners the finger.”