Can hybrid finance unburden Africa’s shaky SME sector?
January 24th, 2022 – For SMEs in Africa the effects of the pandemic have exacerbated a woefully under-financed area of the economy, but by cultivating the right environment and encouraging SMEs to formalise their operations, hybrid financing might p...
South-East Asia’s SMEs are underperforming. Their ‘digital revolution’ depends on fintech
January 24th, 2022 – Major economies in South-East Asia have been hit hard by the pandemic and are still navigating the path to recovery amid renewed outbreaks, new virus variants and an uneven vaccine roll-out. Yet as devastating as lockdown restri...
South-East Asian SMEs are missing out on the digital revolution. Here’s how to get them on board
January 18th, 2022 – Major economies in South-East Asia have been hit hard by the pandemic and are still navigating the path to recovery amid renewed outbreaks, new virus variants and an uneven vaccine roll-out. Yet as devastating as lockdown restri...
African climate startups invited to apply for Adaptation SME Accelerator Project
December 16th, 2021 – Applications have opened in Africa and Asia for the Adaptation SME Accelerator Project (ASAP), a programme for SMEs and startups that are scaling market-based and contextualised solutions to critical climate adaptation and resi...
Intelligent industry and narrowing the gender gap
January 4th, 2022 – Over the coming years and decades, intelligent industry, and the underlying key technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence and big data analytics – will transform labour markets aro...
2022: How APAC Organisations are Preparing for a New Threat Landscape
December 31th, 2021 – The threat landscape continues to evolve and businesses across APAC are aware of this. As such, more organizations are now looking to increase their cybersecurity expenditure as they usher in the new year. According to a report...
The African Nature Based Tourism Platform – Connecting Funders to Beneficiaries in 11 Countries in Eastern and Southern Afric
December 13th, 2021 – The newly launched African Nature-Based Tourism Platform (NatureBasedTourism.Africa) is 8 months into its first year of the three-year project phase. It is an innovative collaboration to channel vital COVID-19 relief and recove...
UNIDO’s groundbreaking publication on the adoption of AI by SMEs
VIENNA – December 9th, 2021 – Further to its participation in the United Nations High Level Inter-Agency Working Group on Artificial Intelligence, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has developed a new normative doc...
Latin American SMEs are betting abroad to get out of the crisis
November 17th, 2021 – The pandemic has forced Latin American SMEs, the segment most affected by the economic crisis, to sharpen their ingenuity and those that have managed to survive have sometimes had to look for new paths that were not in its init...
How start-ups and small businesses are revelling in their flexible culture
December 9th, 2021 – After the initial panic and a sense of the unknown, it can be easily argued that many changes have been made for the better. A global study from Atlassian reveals that almost 7 in 10 Australian workers say their job satisfaction...
