Day: September 20, 2022

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Sandkraal Farm released to Communal Property Association

The Western Cape Provincial Government has commended the collaborative efforts between the three spheres of government in ensuring that the release of Sandkraal Farm in George to a communal property association (CPA) becomes a success.

In September 2021, the provincial Human Settlements Department took an in-principle decision to release Sandkraal Farm to a CPA, which reaffirmed its stance and commitment to the land release programme.

The department said the decision to release the farm is a culmination of years of engagements with George Local Municipality and the Department of Agriculture Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD).

The department said it envisaged that the land is released to a CPA that will be established by the DALRRD, in line with its mandate.

While the process of establishing the CPA is still underway, the department has offered to transfer Sandkraal Farm to the DALRRD.

The department explained that upon the establishment of the CPA, the DALRRD will be at liberty to transfer the property to the CPA.

The department will continue to cooperate and provide technical support to accelerate the establishment of the CPA, and the imminent transfer of the property.

MEC for Infrastructure, Tertuis Simmers, said the release of the property forms part of the provincial government’s commitment to the land release programme and economic empowerment efforts.

“The land was previously described as not suitable for formal development, due to it laying outside of the urban edge, which implied that it is likely to remain usable for agriculture purposes going forward.

“Therefore, the decision to release this piece of property to small-scale farmers will help to create economic opportunities for the area. I welcome the collaborative efforts between the three spheres of government in ensuring this project becomes a success,” Simmers said.

Source: South African Government News Agency

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Thusong Service Week to promote service delivery

Government, together with communities and social partners countrywide, will lead the Annual Thusong Service Centre Week under the theme, ‘Batho Pele Revitalisation – Walking the Talk’.

The week takes place from 19 – 23 September 2022.

The Thusong Service Centre Week forms part of Public Service Month. Its aim is to promote the value Thusong Service Centres continue to offer communities allowing them to access services and information about opportunities.

A significant focus will be on the integrated mobile outreach programme and its effectiveness in responding to the needs of the citizens, particularly those who live in the most remote corners of the country.

The activities of the Thusong Service Week will profile the work of public servants, particularly frontline officials based at Thusong Service Centres and their contribution to the envisioned efficient public service, which is putting people first.

South Africans are encouraged to visit their nearest Thusong Service Centers to explore the array of services offered at their local centres.

Thusong Service Centres are one-stop service points, which bring government information and services closer to people.

This year marks 23 years since the Thusong Service Centres were introduced to improve livelihoods through information and opportunities.

The programme has had a positive impact on the lives of thousands of citizens, as it made government more accessible and visible. Basic services required by citizens have been rendered under one roof, resulting in improved, consistent and efficient service delivery.

Critically, these centres bring government closer to communities, rather than expecting communities to travel long distances at great cost to access services.

Economic opportunities aimed at assisting individuals to become active players in the economic life of South Africa have been made available through the centres especially around food gardens housed in many of the Thusong Service Centres.

Thusong Service Centres have made it easier for citizens to access ID documents, birth and marriage certificates, computer training, health services and UIF applications.

Various awareness raising activities are lined up from Monday, 19 September 2022 to mark the beginning of the campaign. The closing event of the week will take place on Friday at Nophoyi Thusong Service Centre in Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape.

“We call on public servants to continue to ensure that their professional ethics are beyond reproach. The Public Service is committed to the economic and effective use of resources, and to provide services in an impartial, fair and equitable way.

“We remain committed to ensuring that public servants serve citizens promptly and courteously, while assisting them to make informed choices when accessing services. We are building a public service that is instilled with the culture of innovation, volunteerism and service.

“We are working to ensure that we provide services in an impartial, fair and equitable way, without bias,” said Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) Director General, Phumla Williams.

All citizens are invited to visit www.thusong.gov.za to locate the centre closest to them.

All activities that will take place during the week can be accessed on www.gov.za.

Source: South African Government News Agency

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Distinguished Board Director and Former Fortune 100 CIO, Annabelle Bexiga Joins Quantexa Board of Directors

LONDON, Sept. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today Quantexa, a global leader in Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, announced that Annabelle Bexiga is joining their board of directors. Annabelle is currently serving as the non-executive director for DWS Group, Stonex Group (SNEX), and Triton International (TRTN). Prior to her current roles, she served as the CIO Advisor at Zoom with a focus on working with their product development and marketing teams. She also established and chaired Zoom’s Financial Services Industry council.

Annabelle has 30 years of experience in the financial services industry and 11 years in Fortune-100 CIO roles. As a Board Director, Annabelle brings to Quantexa her operational knowledge, as well as public, private, and non-profit board leadership, and advisement experience.

“This incredible journey of continuous learning from brilliant technologists and courageous leaders continues through my board and advisory work,” said Annabelle. “I am especially excited to join the board of Quantexa because they truly understand that today in the face of rapidly changing conditions, enterprises need to drive greater accuracy in decisions and innovation with data and analytics technology at the core. The Quantexa team are working to help organizations solve today’s major challenges in utilizing data effectively to improve their operations and the services they provide to their customers.”

“Annabelle’s background includes a diverse set of businesses at firms such as JPMorgan Chase, Zoom, and AIG, as well as residential global experience in New York, Singapore, Tokyo, and Boston,” said Vishal Marria, CEO at Quantexa. “Annabelle has made a fantastic contribution to Quantexa over the last 2 years working as an advisor to our business, so we are thrilled that she will be joining our board of directors. Her experience aligns well with our goals, our culture, and we look forward to incorporating her expertise to help our customers use their data at scale to unify their data, manage risk, ensure compliance, and identify opportunities for efficiency.”

ABOUT QUANTEXA
Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence that empowers organizations to make trusted operational decisions by making data meaningful. Using the latest advancements in big data and AI, Quantexa’s platform uncovers hidden risk and new opportunities by providing a contextual, connected view of internal and external data in a single place. It solves major challenges across data management, KYC, customer intelligence, financial crime, risk, fraud, and security, throughout the customer lifecycle.

The Quantexa Contextual Decision Intelligence Platform enhances operational performance with over 90% more accuracy and 60 times faster analytical model resolution than traditional approaches. Founded in 2016, Quantexa now has more than 500 employees and thousands of users working with billions of transactions and data points across the world. The company has offices in London, New York, Boston, Washington DC, Brussels, Toronto, Singapore, Melbourne, and Sydney. For more information, contact Quantexa here or follow us on LinkedIn.


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Jacqueline Shi: Huawei Cloud Stresses “By Local, For Local” to Drive Digital Transformation 

BANGKOK, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On September 19, HUAWEI CONNECT 2022 kicked off in Bangkok, Thailand. Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud’s Global Marketing and Sales Service, stressed Huawei Cloud’s commitment to the goal of “By Local, For Local” in fostering a strong ecosystem for digitalization. Huawei Cloud believes that it is only when the local ecosystem grows, can digital transformation grow, and in a healthy and sustainable way.

Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud's Global Marketing and Sales Service

Huawei Cloud continues to provide leading digital technologies for users around the world, enabling enterprises and developers to better achieve digital development. To better provide local services, Huawei Cloud continues to build one global network to deliver high-quality cloud services with consistent experience. In the Asia Pacific since 2018, Huawei Cloud has operated local nodes in Singapore and Malaysia, and is the first public cloud provider to do so in Thailand. Huawei Cloud builds 3AZ data centers in Bangkok, Chonburi, and Samut Prakan, and provides website and consulting services in Thai.

In addition, Huawei Cloud and partners build a digital industry ecosystem by all and for all. Huawei Cloud works tirelessly to build a global startup ecosystem. Multiple forms of enablement, such as cost optimization, technical support, entrepreneurship training, and business resources will empower at least 10,000 high-potential startups worldwide in the next three years, helping startups move to the cloud agilely and focus on innovation.

In the Asia Pacific alone, more than 120 enterprises have joined the Huawei Cloud Startup Program. For example, Huawei Cloud helped ReverseAds expand its business in Thailand, Singapore, and South America. Through this program, ReverseAds has received financing of more than USD20 million. “We will further promote the startup program to the world. We hope that more and more enterprises like ReverseAds can innovate and achieve win-win,” said Ms. Shi.

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2022, Huawei Cloud also released the “Go Cloud, Go Global” ecosystem plan to share Huawei’s local compliance and human resources in more than 170 countries and regions. The plan also shares Huawei Cloud’s insights into industries and the hottest domains, as well as corresponding product and solutions for more enterprises to go global.

Ms. Shi released 15 innovative services at the conference, including CCE Turbo (Cloud Container Engine), UCS (Ubiquitous Cloud Native Service), Pangu wave model, DataArts LakeFormation, Virtual Live, CodeCheck and CloudTest, KooMessage, KooSearch, and KooGallery. This is the first time the services are announced for global implementation.

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Des années se transforment en un mois : le modèle de molécules pharmaceutiques Pangu de Huawei Cloud favorise la découverte de nouveaux médicaments

BANGKOK, 20 septembre 2022 /PRNewswire/ — L’événement HUAWEI CONNECT 2022 a débuté le 19 septembre à Bangkok, en Thaïlande. À cette occasion, M. Ken Hu, président tournant et par intérim de Huawei, a prononcé un discours intitulé « Libérer le numérique », dans lequel il a expliqué comment la société aide les entreprises à tirer le meilleur parti du cloud pour accélérer leur développement.

Mr. Ken Hu delivering his speech at HUAWEI CONNECT 2022

Dans son discours, M. Ken Hu a expliqué comment le premier hôpital affilié de la faculté de médecine de l’université Xi’an Jiaotong a utilisé l’IA pour accélérer la recherche et le développement pharmaceutiques et la découverte de nouveaux médicaments.

Dans l’industrie pharmaceutique, la mise sur le marché d’un nouveau médicament, du développement à l’approbation, nécessite en moyenne plus d’un milliard de dollars américains et 10 ans de travail. Lors de la fabrication d’antibiotiques, il a été constaté que des bactéries résistantes sont parfois découvertes avant même que les antibiotiques nouvellement développés ne soient arrivés au terme des essais cliniques.

Grâce à un service de conception de médicaments assisté par l’IA, alimenté par le modèle de molécules pharmaceutiques Pangu de Huawei Cloud, le professeur Liu Bing du premier hôpital affilié de la faculté de médecine de l’université Xi’an Jiaotong et son équipe ont mis au point un nouveau médicament antimicrobien à large spectre en un mois seulement, et les coûts de R&D ont été réduits de 70 %.

Le principal défi de la découverte de nouveaux médicaments réside dans le criblage de centaines de millions de molécules existantes. Jusqu’à présent, le criblage des médicaments était effectué en laboratoire par des experts, ce qui était coûteux, lent et échouait souvent.

Le modèle de molécules pharmaceutiques Huawei Cloud Pangu a été formé à l’aide de données provenant de 1,7 milliard de molécules pharmaceutiques, et peut prédire les propriétés physicochimiques des composés pharmaceutiques et les classer en fonction de leur toxicité. Les chercheurs peuvent ensuite réaliser des expériences ciblées pour vérifier les composés pharmaceutiques qui ont obtenu les meilleurs scores.

L’optimiseur de structure moléculaire du modèle de molécules pharmaceutiques de Pangu peut également être utilisé pour optimiser la structure des composés principaux et minimiser les effets secondaires potentiels des nouveaux médicaments sur les cellules humaines normales.

De nos jours, le cloud est un outil important pour les entreprises numériques. Huawei Cloud fournit quatre pipelines de développement, y compris ModelArts, le pipeline de développement de l’IA, auquel les clients et les partenaires de tous les secteurs peuvent accéder à la demande, afin de se décharger de l’aspect technique de l’innovation numérique et de se concentrer davantage sur ce qui leur importe le plus.

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Le premier HUAWEI CONNECT hors de Chine : les innovations de Huawei Cloud s’exportent à l’international 

BANGKOK, 20 septembre 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Le HUAWEI CONNECT 2022 a débuté aujourd’hui à Bangkok. Ken Hu, président tournant de Huawei, a prononcé un discours liminaire intitulé « Libérer le numérique ». Zhang Ping’an, PDG de Huawei Cloud, a rannoncé son intention de lancer de nouvelles régions en Indonésie et en Irlande ; il a également dévoilé le projet d’écosystème « Go Cloud, Go Global » et réaffirmé son engagement au « Everything as a Service » (Tout en tant que service). Jacqueline Shi, présidente du service international de marketing et de vente de Huawei Cloud, a déclaré que Huawei Cloud lancerait plus de 15 innovations à l’échelle mondiale, allant du cloud native au développement en IA en passant par la gouvernance des données, le contenu numérique, le développement logiciel et le MacroVerse aPaaS.

Zhang Ping’an, CEO of Huawei Cloud

Selon Ken Hu, les organisations devraient adopter le cloud pour réaliser de vrais progrès de développement, car la technologie numérique intelligente est une technologie d’avenir. Huawei Cloud a intégré plus de 240 services et plus de 50 000 API pour porter les dernières technologies d’IA, de développement d’applications, de mégadonnées et d’outils de développement sur le cloud. L’innovation et l’expertise de Huawei Cloud aideront davantage d’entreprises à passer au cloud plus rapidement et plus efficacement.

Huawei Cloud est engagé dans la construction d’un réseau mondial qui permettra d’accéder aux services sur Huawei Cloud en 50 millisecondes, où que vous soyez dans le monde. Les entreprises n’auront plus besoin de construire leurs propres centres de données. Huawei Cloud lancera de nouvelles régions en Indonésie et en Irlande. D’ici la fin de l’année, Huawei Cloud aura déployé 29 régions et 75 zones de disponibilité, couvrant ainsi plus de 170 pays et régions.

Zhang Ping a également publié le plan « Go Cloud, Go Global ». En mettant l’accent sur le « Everything as a Service », Huawei Cloud partagera l’expérience localisée qu’elle a acquise en travaillant dans plus de 170 pays et régions, mais aussi des informations pour toucher les entreprises et les industries des principales régions, ainsi que ses technologies et ses solutions pour bâtir un écosystème mondial. Cet effort permettra d’aider plus d’entreprises à mieux utiliser le cloud et à améliorer leur stratégie d’internationalisation.

Huawei Cloud s’en tient à son approche « par les locaux, pour les locaux » pour la construction d’un écosystème numérique mondial. Au cours des trois prochaines années, Huawei Cloud soutiendra au moins 10 000 startups prometteuses à travers le monde, notamment en proposant l’optimisation des coûts, l’assistance technique, la formation à l’entrepreneuriat et d’autres ressources commerciales. Plus de 120 entreprises en Asie-Pacifique ont rejoint le programme de startup de Huawei Cloud.

Huawei est également en train de perfectionner sa plateforme de pointe en vue des innovations sur le cloud. Dans son discours, Jacqueline Shi a présenté 15 services Huawei Cloud innovants, dont CCE Turbo, Ubiquitous Cloud Native Service (UCS), Pangu wave model, DataArts LakeFormation, Virtual Live, CodeCheck et CloudTest, KooMessage, KooSearch et KooGallery.

À l’avenir, Huawei Cloud continuera de renforcer les industries grâce à l’infrastructure en tant que service, la technologie en tant que service et l’expertise en tant que service, afin de libérer le numérique avec le « Everything as a Service » et de bâtir les fondements cloud d’un monde intelligent.

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