By Angeline Mgbele, Bureau Chief, Northern Nigeria The need for Nigeria to deepen Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) - Academia partnership has again been emphasised by the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa  at the Huawei Education Summit 2022 (THES2022) which took place at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. Inuwa who was represented by Director, Information Technology Infrastructure Solutions (ITIS), Dr. Usman Gambo Abdullahi said it had become expedient to forge and strengthen linkages between the ICT industry and tertiary institutions due to the benefits. According to...

By Godson Umejiego, Bureau Chief, The Americas A  transportation services company, Outwest Express and American One Source, a professional employer organization that provides human resource services, have agreed to pay $90,000 to voluntarily resolve a sex discrimination and retaliation charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission, the federal agency announced today. Both companies are based in El Paso, Texas. The agreement announced today resolves a charge of discrimination filed with the EEOC alleging that a female recruiter was fired immediately after she complained that her boss treated her...

By Stuart Thomson French overseas territories pubcaster France Télévisions Overseas has tapped technology partners Globecast and Net Insight to replace its legacy media contribution and distribution solution for the territories it serves: French Guiana; French Polynesia; Guadeloupe/Saint Martin; Martinique; Mayotte; New Caledonia; Réunion; Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Wallis and Futuna. France Télévisions was looking to replace and upgrade technology to manage contribtion feeds between local studios across the territories, as well as with eight press agencies. The requirement overs both permanent and occasional feeds from a central studio in France...

By Ron Chen, Bureau Chief, Asia The Awarding Committee members of the Khalifa International Award for Early Learning (KIAEL) this week commended UNESCO’s Tashkent Declaration for Early Childhood Education’s call to highlight the themes of sustainability and climate change among the core guiding principles as knowledge drivers for the transformation of early childhood care and education (ECCE) systems globally. “We are delighted that representatives of 150 countries who participated at the recent World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education in Uzbekistan endorsed the guiding principles of the Tashkent Declaration....

By Stuart Thomson Audience measurement outfit Ipsos has hired Istvan Hajnal to lead the Ipsos Audience Measurement data team in the Netherlands. Hajnal will be involved in our two major audience measurement surveys: Nationaal Media Onderzoek (NMO) and the international Affluent Surveys. Ipsos said that this new team would be a valuable addition to its existing data science and analytics team, which focuses on data analytics and innovations for the entire organization. Hajnal, who will work closely with this team and with the global Audience Measurement data team, was most...