What is wrong with HR?

What is wrong with HR?

Why hasn’t HR evolved at the same pace as other lines of business? Of course, there are some excellent solutions out there, SAP and Workday, among them, but these are expensive options; do you really a Rolls Royce when a sturdy Toyota Hilux will do? Both SAP and Workday can claim that their sophisticated technology will…

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Get AI rules wrong, choke innovation, warns Competition Commission

Get AI rules wrong, choke innovation, warns Competition Commission

Competition Commission deputy commissioner Hardin Ratshisusu Artificial intelligence poses a challenge for competition regulators, which must balance a desire for innovation and economic growth with the possibility that monopolistic, AI-driven markets could develop, leading to the exclusion of some segments of society. If regulators are unable to get this balance right, they could stifle the…

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Africa: World Maps Get Africa’s Size Wrong – Cartographers Explain Why Fixing It Matters

Africa: World Maps Get Africa’s Size Wrong – Cartographers Explain Why Fixing It Matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 signatures. The map most commonly used is called the Mercator projection. Map projections are how cartographers (map makers) “flatten” the three-dimensional Earth…

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Africa: World Maps Get Africa’s Size Wrong – Cartographers Explain Why Fixing It Matters

Africa: The Global Plastics Treaty Process Has Fallen Flat. Here’s What Went Wrong, and How You Can Help

Progress towards a legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution stalled and went into reverse this week. The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, ran overtime. It’s likely to conclude this evening, without agreement. This is an incredibly disappointing result. As a member of the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty,…

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