Gartner highlights four steps CIOs can take to mitigate IT employee fatigue

Employees are dealing with an unprecedented amount of change since COVID, and they are fatigued of change. To decrease employee fatigue, CIOs should perform four steps, according to Gartner, Inc. “Any employee is dealing with digital acceleration, staff departures, having to adjust to various working models, and many more workplace disruptions, and they are exhausted,” […]

QFC and ILO collaborate to promote decent labour standards in the supply chain

The Employment Standards Office (ESO) of theQatar Financial Centre (QFC), a leading onshore financial and business centre in the region, partnered with the International Labour Organization (ILO) Project Office in Qatar to organise a roundtable on promoting decent labour standards in the supply chain through prudent procurement practices. The roundtable featured speakers from the ILO […]

Saudi fintech Foodics unifies its employee operations across MENA with Darwinbox’s HR tech platform

Saudi Arabia-based FOODICS, a cloud-based restaurant management technology and payments platform, has chosen Darwinbox’s Human Resource Management Software (HRMS) to unify its multi-geography HR function. This offers FOODICS a holistic way to manage its Human Resources function spread across MENA countries, including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait, replacing several disparate apps. The FOODICS […]

Alef Education showcase innovative digital learning technologies at BETT 2023

Alef Education, a UAE-based global education technology provider, showcased its cutting-edge products at the British Education Training and Technology show (BETT), the largest EdTech exhibition in the world, from March 29-31. The annual event brought together international education professionals, policymakers, and technology providers to explore the latest developments in education technology. During the event, Alef […]

Saudi Arabia ranks second worldwide on the national entrepreneurial context index

Prince Mohammed Bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship (MBSC), a world-class business and entrepreneurship education leader, recently participated in the Biban 23 Forum through a session titled Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in KSA: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Results (2016-2022). Led by Dr. Muhammad Azam Roomi, Professor of Entrepreneurship at MBSC and team leader of the GEM Saudi […]

NOLEJ and OpenAI Collaborate to Power the Future of Learning

NOLEJ, the generative AI edtech start-up has announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind GPT-4, GPT-3.5, ChatGPT, DALL·E, Codex and more. Following a successful Beta test with over 2500 educators, NOLEJ will launch the commercial version of NOLEJ AI, its generative AI for educators, powered by GPT-3.5, in mid-April at ASU […]

Instructure’s Melissa Loble named Chair of 1EdTech Board of Directors

Instructure, the maker of Canvas, has announced that Melissa Loble, its chief customer experience officer, has been named chair of the board for 1EdTech, the world’s leading non-profit collaboration dedicated to powering learner potential by fostering an open, trusted and innovative edtech ecosystem. Loble brings a wealth of experience in the edtech industry to the role, […]

Fortinet enhances its single-vendor SASE solution with new capabilities to support work-from-anywhere

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced several enhancements to FortiSASE, Fortinet’s single-vendor SASE solution, to enable additional deployment flexibility and new secure access capabilities for digital resources across private applications, SaaS, and the internet.  Single-Vendor SASE Secures Today’s Hybrid Workforce Today, the majority of organizations-55% of […]