Should governments ban TikTok? Can they? A cybersecurity expert explains the risks the app poses and the challenges to blocking it

Is a wildly popular social media app a threat to U.S. citizens? AP Photo/Michael Dwyer By Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University The U.S. House of Representatives voted 352-65 on March 13, 2024, to require TikTok’s parent company, China-based ByteDance, to sell the app or face a nationwide ban on TikTok. President Joe Biden said on March 8 that he would sign the legislation if it reached his […]

March 14, 2024 19

Business / Economics

High Economic Intelligence and Bank Windhoek lead survey on SIM Card Rules

Economic and financial research entity, High Economic Intelligence and Bank Windhoek are conducting a comprehensive survey titled "The Implications of SIM Card Registrations on the Namibian Economy" to get the public’s understanding of the ongoing mandatory SIM card registration process. Managing Director at High Economic Intelligence, Salomei Hei.

February 28, 2024 52

Health / Medical

Thirty years of rural health research: South Africa’s Agincourt studies offer unique insights

By Stephen Tollman, University of the Witwatersrand and Kathleen Kahn, University of the Witwatersrand In 1992 a group of academics from the University of the Witwatersrand introduced a health and socio-demographic surveillance system in remote, rural South Africa to track and understand health and wellbeing in these environments. This initiative built on pioneering work by a Wits team to establish a health systems development unit in a […]

February 6, 2024 25

Namibia

Census reaches final phase

The Namibia Statistics Agency is in the final stage of the Census conducted in August 2023. The "Reconciliation Operation," scheduled from February 1 to 14, 2024, will revisit households where discrepancies were found in individual details between the Census and PES information. NSA Communication Specialist Mirjam Shihepo.

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