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Data: Useful Or Wasted

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  Homepage Accessibility links Skip to content Accessibility Help Sign in Home News More Search BBC BBC PAID AND PRESENTED BY:   About this Modernise data Control to customise Every single day, a modern enterprise organisation will collect, generate, store and use a significant amount of data — but 90% of that data goes to waste because companies don’t know how to analyse it or access it, or that it exists at all. There can be a lot of value in that data. It can help your business understand your customers and clients, track your employee productivity, uncover your operational trends and make predictions about your future profitability. “To be able to deliver a good customer experience to individuals, we need to understand those individuals because the more personalised we can be, the more valuable we are to those customers,” said Jodie Sangster, CMO for IBM for Australia and New Zealand. “The way to gain that understanding is through data.” But to unlock that value, you need ...

China Africa Vaccine. Diplomacy

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  China keeps promising its African allies that coronavirus vaccines for the continent are a priority. But where are they? Analysis by  Jenni Marsh , CNN Updated 0246 GMT (1046 HKT) January 10, 2021 How China is hoping to use its vaccine as a diplomacy tool  03:09 (CNN) China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi concludes his tour of Africa this weekend without making a single concrete vaccine commitment to a continent  hoping  a benevolent Beijing will help inoculate its population out of the global coronavirus pandemic. Last year, as Covid-19 tore across the globe and wealthy countries began to pre-order stockpiles of vaccines for their citizens, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged that African vaccinations were a " priority " for Beijing. His commitment followed mass  donations  of masks, testing kits and medical equipment to the continent by Beijing and private individuals, such as billionaire entrepreneur  Jack Ma. Now, with negative sentiment towards...