INFORMATION IS THE WHEEL

INFORMATION IS THE WHEEL

 

The Incoming Permanent Secretary,Federal Ministry of Information and Culture,Mrs Lydia Shehu Jafiya mni,has stated that Information is the wheel of life when it is obtained in the right proportion and at the right place.

She said this at the hand-over ceremony between her and the outgoing Permanent Secretary of the Ministry,Dr Adaora Ifeoma Anyanwutakwu held at the National Press Centre,Radio House,Abuja.

The newly posted Permanent Secretary, said the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture has its unique place as the headquarters of Information Administration and jewels of exhibition for showcasing the culture of our great nation, Nigeria.
She added that the 2021-2025 Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan issued by the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF) will be followed doggedly in order to achieve its laudable benefits for the Ministry and its Agencies.

The Permanent Secretary further appreciated the effort of the Management and staff of Ministry for organizing the ceremony and welcoming her, she solicited their cooperation as they did to the outgoing Permanent Secretary.

Earlier the outgoing Permanent Secretary, Dr Mrs. Adaora Ifeoma Anyanwutaku in her address congratulated the incoming Permanent Secretary on her appointment.
She acknowledged that the event marks another milestone in her career as the curtain of her stewardship in the Ministry is drawn having served for twenty (20) months and ensuring the smooth delivery in the Ministry’s mandate.

Dr Anyanwutakwu noted that in getting acquainted with the dynamics of the Ministry, she has asides being an Administrator became an Information Officer, Cultural Officer, Tourism Officer, Archivist and even a Printer. While also informing that with the assistance of her team of Directors irrespective of lame financial resources have fulfilled obligation regarding staff welfare,established a sick bay for staff, conducted staff promotions in both senior and junior cadres as at when due, and instituted a reward system to recognise hard work and reward excellence among staff.

She appreciated the leadership and support of the Honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Directors, Heads of Departments and Units, the members of staff, Chief Executives and Heads of the Nineteen (19) Agencies and Parastatals of the Ministry for the encouragement, support and cooperation she received while serving as the Permanent Secretary. She enjoined everyone to accord her successor the same cooperation and support and even more, to enable her succeed in her assignment in the Ministry.

The Director Human Resource Management of the Ministry,Mrs. Grace O. Okani in her remarks,commended the outgoing permanent secretary for her achievements in fulfilling the ministry’s mandate.She prayed for wisdom and understanding to effectively pilot the affairs of her new Ministry.

Mrs Okani welcomed the newly deployed Permanent Secretary to the Ministry while looking forward to a good working relationship and promised to give her the utmost cooperation to enable her take the Ministry to greater heights.
There were goodwill messages from the Managing Director, Nigerian Film Corporation, Jos, Dr. Chidia Maduekwe,Director International Cultural Relations,Memunat Idu Lar,Director Press centre,Mr Sunday Baba and Chairman,Association of Senior Civil Servant of the Ministry.

Ifeoma Ezeude

FG TO CONDUCT IT TALENT GAP ASSESSMENT RESEARCH

FG TO CONDUCT IT TALENT GAP ASSESSMENT RESEARCH
With various studies conducted globally indicate that by 2030 there would be a short fall of expertise in Information Technology, (IT) skills throughout the world, the Nigeria government has concluded arrangement to carry out research on IT talent gap in the country with the view to bridging the gap the short fall would create and position the country to be competitively prepared for it.
The research, which was commissioned on behalf of the Federal Government by the National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) is to be conducted by Co-creation Hub within six months of its launch.
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami while speaking as the special guest of honour at the virtual ceremony put together to launch the commissioning of the research yesterday opined that it has become imperative to carry out the assessment gap in order to build on the “modest achievements the sector has recorded in the last three years.”
Prof Pantami maintained that the digital economy sector in Nigeria has been the crown jewel of the economy and it has been blessed with so many achievements and gains particularly in the last three years.”
Citing the National Bureau of Statistics’ data, the Minister stated that the sector remains the fastest growing sector of the economy and the only sector that grows in double digits in recent time.
He noted that there are many opportunities the digital economy sector offers globally and Nigeria must be well positioned to benefit from them, adding that at the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a report that says 90 million IT jobs were created and with the population of the country, Nigeria ought to have contributed three to four million of jobs being created.
He said, “This initiative will guide us to know the opportunities we have locally; the opportunities we have globally and what we need to do to ensure we bridge the gap that exists.”
He added that, “There are 1,995 ICT companies in Nigeria and this research will take this into consideration and I hope at the end of it, we will have excellent report that if implemented, would guide our country to make informed decision for the sector.”
While commending the initiative, the Minister observed that the research will make the small, micro and medium enterprises very effective because they are the bedrock of Nigerian economy.
“Whatever we do is very important and we should accommodate our small, micro and medium enterprises because of their prominence to our economy particularly looking at the gap that exists in relation to their adoption of innovations,” he said.
Prof Pantami also stated that the Nigeria Start-Up Bill is in the process of transmission to President Muhammed Buhari for his assent and believes that if the bill is assented to, it will avail the start-ups many opportunities because most of the challenges encountered by the start-ups have been effectively addressed in the bill.
While urging NITDA to keep him posted on the progress report of the research, he encouraged both the Agency and CC Hub to ensure success of the “important project.”
Earlier in his remarks, the NITDA’s Director General, Kashifu Inuwa stated that the research on IT Talent Gap Assessment is to be carried out in line with Mr. President’s desire to diversify the Nigerian economy and also in alliance with the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy, NDEPS.
He added that the outcome of the research would also help in attaining the 95 per cent digital literacy target being provisioned in the NDEPS.
“The gap analysis will let us know where we are so that it will help us come up with the right strategies to adopt in achieving the 95 per cent target on digital literacy. And in addition to that, there are also global talent shortage and we see this as an opportunity to position Nigeria to create and capture values in this global talent pipeline”, the DG noted.
Inuwa stated that the outcome of the research will offer the nation the opportunity to have its national talent strategy that would look at the demand and supply sides, train people to have their own start ups with already-to-market products.
“We decided to partner with CC-Hub because it remains the right partner due to its coverage and experience. And we are enjoining you not to use arm chair theory but go to the field and collect data. Within six months of this commissioning, we wish to have information about the talent gaps in the country and identify areas we can have competitive advantage.
In his presentation titled “The Importance of Technology Talent Gap Analysis in Nigeria, the co-founder and Head of Research, CC-Hub, Dr Oluseun Adepoju stated that there was no better time to carry out the research than now because of the position of Nigeria as a very robust country when it comes to technology.
He said the importance of the research is to move in accordance with the pace of the technological advancement which he said “keeps growing in geometrical rate.”
According to him, “the issue we have been facing is that we are not able to build talent that can catch up with technological advancement.
Dr Adepoju declared that with the vibrance of IT ecosystem, “there are loopholes and gaps we need to fill and this research will give us the insights into where the loopholes are.
He said the country could not afford to be late because there is new investment to be built in the IT talent demand and supply scale “because the future is highly definitive.”
Enumerating the strength of the country in relation to the research, he maintained that the nation’s strength lies in “leadership talent in technology, investment in technology ecosystem and youthful population.”
On the opportunities the research could also offer, he said it will avail the country to identify the knowledge gap on specific technological skills deficiency; identify other government parastatals’ involvement in technology talent development; identify knowledge gap on technology talent expert pipeline and identify gap on the impact of tertiary education institution of technology programmes on general technology talent ecosystem in Nigeria.
The research which would be conducted in all the six geo political zone with two states per zone would collect data from one federal university, one private university and one federal polytechnic using both quantitative and qualitative triangulation sampling method.

WEATHERFOR2 OPENS WEBSITE FOR UNIQUE BEDDING AND INTERIOR DECORS TO NIGERIANS

WEATHERFOR2 OPENS WEBSITE FOR UNIQUE BEDDING AND INTERIOR DECORS TO NIGERIANS

 

 

WeatherFor2, an innovative and creative company with years of experience that is focused in the manufacturing, distribution and production of interior decor materials recently showcased an array of their interior decor products especially unique beddings for homes and hotels to the delight of Nigerians especially those in real estate, hospitality and others. With this launch of their online platforms, Nigerians will avail themselves of where to get quality beddings and other home décors. This move has been lauded by those in the hospitality sector stating that it has reduced the challenges of sourcing quality bedding and at the same time how to take care of these beddings and other materials such as curtains.

 

The company stated that apart from beddings which they are known for, their other interior products fit every segment of the society ranging from corporate interior decoration to private homes. WeatherFor2 has stamped their authority on the ground and positioned themselves as one of the foremost interior finishing firms in the country.

 

Speaking on the importance of online exhibition, marketplace and production of some of these items in the country, Precious Tanta, the founder and the Chief Executive Officer of WeatherFor2 said that, “We can’t be affording to be importing everything. We looked at the availability of forex and we also know that we have the capacity to deliver world-class interior decor solution, we decided to produce some of these in the country. This has made us save cost and the scarce forex.”

She added that “We are geared with a complete modern, classic, elegant and sophisticated bedding that are hundred percent cotton.  The bedding collections we have on our website are made from high quality fabric with varieties of colours, patters and sizes. We also have a wide selection of curtains and blinds to suit every tase ranging from corporate to private clients. We have a carefully selected team that will assist you in making the right choice. We have in place a support group that can handle issues that might arise from purchase and installations.”

“Our designers work closely with the client so that we can create images and drawing right before you, using our robust information technology (IT) tools. We have met and surpassed design expectations of many. Over these years, we have worked with various types of professionals that can help you discover and utilise resources. Our main mission is to promote a robust interaction between the client and us” Precious concluded.

Apart from beddings and curtains, WeatherFor2 has a lot of collections both homemade and foreign products that  cater for the needs of various level of clientele. Armed with years of expertise, the collections include White Luxury sheets, Roses Beddings, floral blue bedsheet set, modern sleek curtains, neutral curtains, European style curtains and many types of duvets. Not only curtains and beddings, WeatherFor2 has made their website a one stop places where top notch furniture can be gotten and also at the same time providing expert advise to clients.

 

ANTHONY EMEKA NWOSU

 

Over 50,000 Telecom Infrastructure Destruction Reported in 5 Years

Over 50,000 Telecom Infrastructure Destruction Reported in 5 Years

 

 

Over 50,000 cases of major destruction to telecom infrastructure and facilities have been reported across the country in the past five years, raising alarm over the implication of these incidents to the quality of telecommunications services in Nigeria.

 

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, who disclosed this at the 2022 edition of Youth Civil Society and Stakeholders Summit (YCSSS), which took place midweek at the Army Resource Centre, Abuja, expressed worry over how the incidents have continued to affect the Quality of Experience, (QoE), of consumers, and called for concerted efforts by the members of the public, and security agencies, to stem the tide.

 

Danbatta, who spoke through the Head, Corporate Communication Unit of the Commission, Mrs. Nnena Ukoha, said the negative impacts of incessant vandalism of telecom equipment, evidenced in fibre cuts, theft of telecom facilities like generators at sites, vandalism of base stations, among other vices, have become a major burden on the service providers, while telecom consumers have continued to suffer unwarranted disruptions of their hard-earned services.

 

“The impact of  vandalism of infrastructure is felt by all in the quality of services rendered, as it results in increasing drop calls, data and Internet connectivity disruptions, aborted and undelivered short messaging services (SMS), as well as countless failed calls”, he said.

 

The NCC‘s Chief Executive Officer said that, considering the well-known fact that the ability to connect and communicate is fundamental to human existence, improvement in businesses processes, government services, education, as well as social and family networking through seamless connections, every community should get involved in protecting the critical infrastructure that makes these services possible.

 

“Therefore, as a community, you are expected to report cases of vandalism of telecoms infrastructure to the nearest law enforcement agencies such as the Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and also share adequate information received from NCC with your family, friends, and neighbours.

 

“We believe, with your cooperation as critical stakeholders in the telecoms sector, we can all work with the law enforcement authorities in protecting telecom infrastructure in your community”, Danbatta stated to emphasise the role of the communities in protecting critical national assets.

 

Multiprenuer Tola Roberts launchesGolfGuruNg.

Multiprenuer Tola Roberts launchesGolfGuruNg.

Online Golf game information platform with a PRO-Shop where you can buy all your Golf game needs from Kits to Gloves to Balls or sell your verified fairly used golf equipment.

Tola Roberts is passionate about whatever she does and is always looking out for opportunities to make life easy.History of Golf Sports in Nigeria

GolfGuruNg was born out of that passion and zeal. The website has interviews, information on all golf courses in Nigeria, the number of holes, ratings etc. There is also the kids section.It is your stop for everything Golf.

She is currently working on a project to promote grassroot golf game participation. She recently organized the Indigenous People’s Day charity golf tournament at the Sagamu Golf club that saw the sponsorship of 10 caddies for training.

 

 

WE ARE POISED TO BUILD ONLINE PORTALS & WEBSITES FOR NIGERIAN SMEs – HARRISON OKAFOR

WE ARE POISED TO BUILD ONLINE PORTALS & WEBSITES FOR NIGERIAN SMEs – HARRISON OKAFOR

 

In this interview, Harrison Okafor, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Harnix Tech, an indigenous web development and online presence firm located in Lagos talks about the need for the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to invest in online presence. He complained of the low adaption of virtual presence by Nigerian business owners. He talks about how they generated two million followers in the social media page. Anthony Nwosu captures this in an exclusive interview

 

Tell us about Harnix Tech as an IT firm?

Harnix Tech is a creative digital agency, located in Lagos. We are a team of IT professionals combining the knowledge of our skills to provide outstanding digital solutions to our business clients.…. We are a team of professional graphic designers, web developers, content writers, marketers and IT specialists combining the knowledge of our skills to create beautiful designs and strategies, aimed to meet your business’s needs.

As a web developing firm have you ever thought of building software which is a clear departure from web development?

Yes, I have. But, before I move into details, we provide other services other than web development, we currently provide graphic design, digital marketing, SEO, content writing, social media management, and branding services too. Now back to a software, as I said earlier, I do hope to someday create a Book-Keeping product that specifically helps business entrepreneurs track their revenue, transactions, expenses, profits, tax and so on. The goal would be to make it super-easy for entrepreneurs to navigate through and understand.

The need to have virtual presence is very important for many organizations. What do you think are the Nigerian SMEs attitude towards building web or online presence?

Currently due to the bad economy, they feel the prices are on the high side, and most businesses just choose to opt out and keep running their business offline even when they know we live in a digital era when having your business online is very vital. However, we are working on something at Harnix Tech that would help accommodate SMEs in Nigeria. We believe as time goes on, businesses will evolve and come to understand the importance of virtual presence.

Do you think that cost of building websites is chasing or scaring Nigerian firms away?

Currently, I would say yes. Now when we look at the analysis of how many small businesses there are, you will notice there are over 80% small businesses and more are still going to come up. Now if we decide to check the rate of how many small businesses own a website, they are very few. We could say around 5-8%. But again, sometimes it is not about the price, it’s actually about small business owners lacking knowledge about the digital space and how the digital space could help scale their business. Businesses that do not key into the vast opportunities that internet offer is basically missing it big time.

Do you think of hosting apart from web development?

I have given it a thought, but right now, I just want to focus on scaling Harnix Tech to a whole new level. Hosting will come as we evolve but now, we are focused on our core.

As a digital marketing firm, what do you think can be done to push SME brands in the country?

Firstly, I would say we need to educate small business owners on why it is very important to have their business online. The reason I am saying this is because, we have dealt with clients who are clueless about the digital space, and when we present them with results of how their website was performing, they simply don’t get it. We have to break it down, so that they could truly understand what we are doing and what the next step is, when it comes to positioning their brand online.

Secondly, I will say making use of affordable resources. I say affordable because, we are talking about SMEs here, if they find the price of a website too expensive, then what happens when we start pitching SEO to them? They would take to their hills, because SEO is very costly. SEO costs ranges from 100k – 300k monthly, and an SEO campaign could take up to 6 months or more. You don’t want to pitch SEO to an SME brand, rather you want to draft out affordable marketing strategies, which they can use to scale their business. At Harnix Tech, one of the things, we do is create and optimize our clients Google MyBusiness account, one of our clients, Parkview Astoria Hotel is on their top game, when it comes to ranking on Google MyBusiness, when you search for keywords like luxurious hotels in Ikoyi, 4 star hotels in Ikoyi, or hotels in Ikoyi, Parkview Hotel is with in position 1 or 2. This has helped their business generate over a million in 4-5 months. So, when dealing with SMEs, think of Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, Influential Marketing, Google MyBusiness or Apple Map listing. Then once they start generating that revenue, they would have more confident in the online business, and then you could pitch SEO to them.

What are the challenges that you face doing business in Nigeria?

Well, there are myriads of them but I will bring to these few things such as Getting the right people to work with. Clients delay in balancing payments, because we charge 60% upfront before we embark on any project and 40% after project is done. Bad Economy. Getting International SMEs to trust your brand. Today, a lot of Nigerians especially in the med field and tech are leaving the country.

How has this affected you?

I will not say that it has affected us, because some of our very good clients are Nigerians based abroad. And I won’t really say them moving abroad isnt the best option, because clearly it is. I also want to take my brand international one day, because it is high-profitable out there than within Nigeria.

Your team use SEO, PPC, social media and Content Marketing, among other channels, to build your brand and achieve goals. Tell us how?

At Harnix Tech, we make use of Influencial Marketing, social media, SEO, and Content Marketing currently. Now when it comes to Influencial Marketing, it has helped our brand generate visibility in the online space. While social media has helped us communicate more with our audience, our posts, our designs, everything communicates and we have used that to generate revenues for the brand. Content Marketing helps us build trust with our clients and create a bonding relationship with them, one of the things we do at Harnix Tech is study our client’s industry, and provide our clients information that can help them scale and stand a chance to compete in that industry. SEO has helped us generate online traffic and even sales for the brand. We are currently looking at using a new strategy, which involves turning our customers to our ambassadors, and creating a referral system.

You’re into digital marketing. How has this been?

In short words, it has been an awesome experience, the brand has really grown this year and we have generated more than double of our revenue last year.

Tell us your expectations this later part of the year?

We are aiming to generate 3M, Harnix Tech was launch 23 April, 2021. And last year been our first year, we did 785k+. We started this year with a lot of fire, and everyone on the team has been spectacular, with our new implemented strategies, we have not only generated over 2M+ this year, but also increased our client lists. We are confident to we can achieve this before the year runs out. We are also looking at exploring and dominating other social media platforms as well as keep increasing our client lists. Currently we have brands who trust us in Nigeria, UK, Russia. But altogether we have offered digital services to different brands in 5 countries. We believe there is still a long way to go when it comes to the issue of SMEs in Nigeria, and we will be looking at educating a lot of SME Entrepreneurs.

 

 

Well, there are myriads of them but I will bring to these few things such as Getting the right people to work with. Clients delay in balancing payments, because we charge 60% upfront before we embark on any project and 40% after project is done. Bad Economy. Getting International SMEs to trust your brand. Today, a lot of Nigerians especially in the med field and tech are leaving the country.

 

Techline Communications Develops Software for Sales and Products Stock Taking

Techline Communications Develops Software for Sales and Products Stock Taking

 

 

Techline Communications an information technology (IT) firm based in Surulere Lagos has introduced a novel home developed software for sales in the country. Known as SalesLine Electronic Salesbook, the company looked at the peculiarities of the Nigerian business scape, the company developed an indigenous software to handle productivity better. Many business owners and managers have lauded the introduction of SalesLine Electronic Sales book as a welcomed development.

SalesLine Electronic Salesbook and Inventory management Solution eliminate paper-based processes in organizations’ sales and inventory management, it manages sales and expenditure information and allows administrators make well-informed managerial decisions, thereby automating bookkeeping processes.

Speaking on the importance of the software to businesses in Nigeria, Gbekele Iyanoluwa, the Vice President of Sale of Techline Communications said “As we are living in the contemporary world. We need advancements in our existing systems. Companies Inventory and sales are in constant need of a single platform since manual inventory management comes with many issues. It requires a great deal of investment to handle orders from every deal channel freely and to perform routine manual stock checks so you can change your stock levels at any stage. The time it takes to accommodate this data can likewise prompt an absence of ongoing stock level visibility, postponements in setting orders when stock levels are low, stock outs, and lost deals. Additionally, that time would be better spent developing your company. Due to the time required to reconcile this information, real-time stock levels may not be visible; reordering may take longer when stock levels are low, and stockouts and lost sales may ensue.”

On the benefits of the software, Gbekele added that “It can save time, you can get rid of the boring paper work. It can help you in dealing with your selling and purchasing. It can help you for an easy flow of money and most important one is that it can satisfy your customer. The unique thing about this app is, the way and manner in which the platform keeps track of everything including the quantity, the stock, capacity, product description sales history and every other information associated with the product with a single click. You can find even the minor details about the product. You’ll have the option to have a reasonable thought of the products that your clients are buying with dependable information and bits of knowledge revealing everything you want to know.”

On the robust support system, he added that “We have our 24/7 customer technical support as well as our customer success team available on standby to render any form of assistance necessary to make sure our customers have a smooth and successful run using the platform. This system is helpful for all who are looking forward to organize their business without any manual help and it provides basic needs to the small business companies to fulfill their needs.”

The product is designed for the small and medium scale firms known as SMEs and sells at a price that is pocket friendly. If ant business manager is desirous for the medium-sized business to flourish, he will need the assistance in order to meet your inventory tracking needs. for this purpose, the platform provides you many facilities and advantages with only one click, you may access all benefits. It provides you.

The core attributes of the software are    Inventory management, Customer management, Retail Accounting, Suitable for businesses of all sizes, Simple, Powerful & Affordable, Report generation. Contact Management, Income and Expense Management and Product Information management. Inventory management helps companies identify which and how much stock to order at what time. It tracks inventory from purchase to the sale of goods. The practice identifies and responds to trends to ensure there’s always enough stock to fulfill customer orders and proper warning of a shortage.

Techline Communications over the years has designed and developed various Andriod,IOS and web applications and have created the reputation of constantly adding value to organizations in Nigeria. One of their products is the EasyTest, this is an electronic plug that helps in school management specifically designed for examination, scoring of students and assessments.

 

5 Ways Seamfix Care Can Improve Your Efficiency As An OH & S Practitioner

5 Ways Seamfix Care Can Improve Your Efficiency As An OH & S Practitioner

 

 

Being an occupational health and safety practitioner makes you an integral part of an OH & S ecosystem that has been around for some decades. Several practitioners have come and gone, but one thing has remained constant, the need to improve their everyday proactivity towards achieving workplace wellness and the need to accomplish this with fewer procedures.

 

Even though the world is evolving and technology is making its mark in different spheres, some practitioners are still held back by the manual processes they use, whether as an OHSP admin or an OHSP manager. Meanwhile, the industry now requires more – it requires more medical data security, more advanced processes, more ‘fit for work’ employees, and so on. These go beyond what some regular OH & S operations can achieve, and only a few exposed to contemporary technology can match the pace and thrive.

 

Become a better OHSP today with Seamfix Care, and take your practice to the next level with top-tier technology that automates your manual processes and boosts efficiency.

See beyond the days of paperwork, long queues, and overwhelming manual data filing.

 

Seamfix Care is the new-generation technology uniquely built for OHSPs who want to see their practice from a different point of view – a seamless one that makes life easy for everyone.

 

Are you looking for ways to be more efficient as an OH & S practitioner with the singular use of a tool? Take a deep breath; you are about to be exposed to a game-changing solution that can be harnessed right from your mobile device(s).

 

Here are five ways Seamfix Care can make you a better OH & S practitioner. You will realise how easy your work can be. Read on:

 

  • From Analog to Digital: With Seamfix Care, you can save time and reduce operating costs as you digitise cumbersome administrative processes and issue verifiable electronic certificates on the go.

 

  • Easy Auditing and Accreditation: With an all-in-one dashboard, Seamfix Care gives you a hold of everything you need to know – including your list of partnering contractors, a list of workers needing medicals, their health status, and the due dates of their current health certificates. With this information at your fingertips, auditing becomes fast and accurate, and accreditation of newly enrolled or renewing workers for medicals becomes easy.

 

  • Less Marketing, More Revenue: Being registered on Seamfix Care brings a positive return to your organisation by helping you stay visible in the marketplace. Seamfix Care enables you to get seen by users (workers and subcontractors) who need to work with occupational health service providers. Without placing an advert, you get positioned in front of your prospects.

 

  • Risk Management: Things can go from good to worse in a matter of seconds in a case of data mismanagement, mismatch, falsification, alteration, or loss. But with Seamfix Care, you can stay off risky paths by harnessing the power of blockchain technology to store health records that can only be accessed and verified by authorised parties.

 

  • Automated Processes, From Start to Finish: From clients’ data collection to credential issuance and verification, Seamfix Care walks you through what should take a long time and effort to achieve with a few minimal steps. Now you can collect workers’ details electronically before they book appointments and show up for their tests.

 

Beyond these, Seamfix Care is a representation of the future of technology in the occupational health industry, don’t miss out on an opportunity to transform your OH & S practice. Want to know more about Seamfix Care? Book a demo session to learn more now.

 

 

5 Ways Seamfix Care Can Improve Your Efficiency As An OH & S Practitioner

 

Being an occupational health and safety practitioner makes you an integral part of an OH & S ecosystem that has been around for some decades. Several practitioners have come and gone, but one thing has remained constant, the need to improve their everyday proactivity towards achieving workplace wellness and the need to accomplish this with fewer procedures.

 

Even though the world is evolving and technology is making its mark in different spheres, some practitioners are still held back by the manual processes they use, whether as an OHSP admin or an OHSP manager. Meanwhile, the industry now requires more – it requires more medical data security, more advanced processes, more ‘fit for work’ employees, and so on. These go beyond what some regular OH & S operations can achieve, and only a few exposed to contemporary technology can match the pace and thrive.

 

Become a better OHSP today with Seamfix Care, and take your practice to the next level with top-tier technology that automates your manual processes and boosts efficiency.

 

See beyond the days of paperwork, long queues, and overwhelming manual data filing.

 

Seamfix Care is the new-generation technology uniquely built for OHSPs who want to see their practice from a different point of view – a seamless one that makes life easy for everyone.

 

Are you looking for ways to be more efficient as an OH & S practitioner with the singular use of a tool? Take a deep breath; you are about to be exposed to a game-changing solution that can be harnessed right from your mobile device(s).

 

Here are five ways Seamfix Care can make you a better OH & S practitioner. You will realise how easy your work can be. Read on:

 

  • From Analog to Digital: With Seamfix Care, you can save time and reduce operating costs as you digitise cumbersome administrative processes and issue verifiable electronic certificates on the go.

 

  • Easy Auditing and Accreditation: With an all-in-one dashboard, Seamfix Care gives you a hold of everything you need to know – including your list of partnering contractors, a list of workers needing medicals, their health status, and the due dates of their current health certificates. With this information at your fingertips, auditing becomes fast and accurate, and accreditation of newly enrolled or renewing workers for medicals becomes easy.

 

  • Less Marketing, More Revenue: Being registered on Seamfix Care brings a positive return to your organisation by helping you stay visible in the marketplace. Seamfix Care enables you to get seen by users (workers and subcontractors) who need to work with occupational health service providers. Without placing an advert, you get positioned in front of your prospects.

 

  • Risk Management: Things can go from good to worse in a matter of seconds in a case of data mismanagement, mismatch, falsification, alteration, or loss. But with Seamfix Care, you can stay off risky paths by harnessing the power of blockchain technology to store health records that can only be accessed and verified by authorised parties.

 

  • Automated Processes, From Start to Finish: From clients’ data collection to credential issuance and verification, Seamfix Care walks you through what should take a long time and effort to achieve with a few minimal steps. Now you can collect workers’ details electronically before they book appointments and show up for their tests.

 

Beyond these, Seamfix Care is a representation of the future of technology in the occupational health industry, don’t miss out on an opportunity to transform your OH & S practice. Want to know more about Seamfix Care? Book a demo session to learn more now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tech trends: What the rest of 2022 has in store for the industry

Tech trends: What the rest of 2022 has in store for the industry

Since the beginning of 2022, several trends have emerged as newsworthy front-runners. CTO Wayne Yan and architect Saša Slankamenac at South African specialised software development firm Dariel, take a closer look at Web3, passwordless authentication, artificial intelligence and machine learning as three trends likely to make the biggest impact in the coming months.

 

Starting with the most sensational – Web3

Some may be disappointed to discover that Web3 is not going to yield any practical results over the next six months. Furthermore, under its broader, hyped definition, it resembles platform-centralised internet Web2.0 of Facebook, Google and Amazon notoriety mainly due to consolidation in the cryptocurrency field by exchanges dominated by Binance, Coinbase, MetaMask, and OpenSea.

Conceptually Web3 remains interesting in the sense of being decentralised. However, it is five years away from practical results. While initial investment and proof of concept research dust settles, an approach for the qui bono problem is not clear. This is something all decentralisation initiatives face – namely the value needs to be to individual nodes of the network, rather than to a concentration of a small number of entities; the latter being the established model for investors.

Moving next to plain ol’ security – passwordless authentication. 

Security – the neglected middle child stuck between its more seductive siblings hacking and crypto. Most won’t get too excited with steady improvements to security. Nonetheless, consistent to form, security steadily continues making progress with initiatives such as multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Is passwordless authentication MFA? No. MFA uses more than one authentication factor to verify a user’s identity. MFA systems may use fingerprint scanning as a primary authentication factor and one-time pin message-sending as secondary. The use of two terms interchangeably has come about because many MFA login systems started using passwordless as their secondary authentication factor. Widespread passwordless adoption could become a ubiquitous industry standard and further impact web and mobile applications outside of Microsoft’s enterprise ecosystem, as user expectations are normalised with this round of adoption.

Lastly, artificial intelligence and machine learning

It has been five years since OpenAI announced its natural language neural network model, Generative Pre-trained Transformer in February 2018, when the world was a different place. Since then, the world and AI/ML have been through a couple of radical cycles of change. While most of us were distracted by big world events over this period, and most advances in the field of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) remained in the domain of research – AI/ML began delivering on its promise with practical applications in the market.

AI/ML is close to a point at which technology is commoditised, simplified, or abstracted and finds itself in the hands of the man in the street. Within five short years, it has gone from initial investment proof of concept research to demonstrating practical, for-profit services and, what we are observing in the industry now is the ability for AI/ML to automate new kinds of customer interactions as services. This will give a competitive advantage to market players able to capitalise on subscription-based offers.

The Biggest Pain Point

As always, the biggest and most pressing operational pressure for large organisations remains maintaining a balance between running and upgrading in-place systems while managing projects to introduce new ones. A point complicated further with a high-demand job market and exacerbated by accelerating specialist fragmentation in the labour pool. This pain point in emerging markets is especially pronounced as the attraction of both foreign currency as well as permanent residency are huge.

Specialists in different spheres are required to collaborate with more techniques and approaches for a broader set of technologies in order to keep up with increasing complexity of the modern technology stack. To illustrate, “full stack development” up until recently implied a single role responsible for the delivery of a fully functional software system, its deployment and ongoing maintenance. This designation no longer covers software delivery that additionally includes cloud, infrastructure as code, security, data engineering, data science and the governance and compliance it entails as even more new sub-disciplines continue to emerge. Technical expertise required to hone skills like this is coming from an increasingly shrinking pool of resources pressured by demand from overseas markets facing similar circumstances and looking abroad with offers of work visas and payments in dollars, pounds and euros.

Organisations can address this with operational tactics to close hiring gaps over the next six months but would need to form strategic, longer-term programmes over the same period to be able to retain qualified personnel in a market which aggressively draws talent with interesting variety of problems in creative environments.

Since the beginning of 2022, several trends have emerged as newsworthy front-runners

Since the beginning of 2022, several trends have emerged as newsworthy front-runners. CTO Wayne Yan and architect Saša Slankamenac at South African specialised software development firm Dariel, take a closer look at Web3, passwordless authentication, artificial intelligence and machine learning as three trends likely to make the biggest impact in the coming months.

 

Starting with the most sensational – Web3

Some may be disappointed to discover that Web3 is not going to yield any practical results over the next six months. Furthermore, under its broader, hyped definition, it resembles platform-centralised internet Web2.0 of Facebook, Google and Amazon notoriety mainly due to consolidation in the cryptocurrency field by exchanges dominated by Binance, Coinbase, MetaMask, and OpenSea.

Conceptually Web3 remains interesting in the sense of being decentralised. However, it is five years away from practical results. While initial investment and proof of concept research dust settles, an approach for the qui bono problem is not clear. This is something all decentralisation initiatives face – namely the value needs to be to individual nodes of the network, rather than to a concentration of a small number of entities; the latter being the established model for investors.

Moving next to plain ol’ security – passwordless authentication. 

Security – the neglected middle child stuck between its more seductive siblings hacking and crypto. Most won’t get too excited with steady improvements to security. Nonetheless, consistent to form, security steadily continues making progress with initiatives such as multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Is passwordless authentication MFA? No. MFA uses more than one authentication factor to verify a user’s identity. MFA systems may use fingerprint scanning as a primary authentication factor and one-time pin message-sending as secondary. The use of two terms interchangeably has come about because many MFA login systems started using passwordless as their secondary authentication factor. Widespread passwordless adoption could become a ubiquitous industry standard and further impact web and mobile applications outside of Microsoft’s enterprise ecosystem, as user expectations are normalised with this round of adoption.

Lastly, artificial intelligence and machine learning

It has been five years since OpenAI announced its natural language neural network model, Generative Pre-trained Transformer in February 2018, when the world was a different place. Since then, the world and AI/ML have been through a couple of radical cycles of change. While most of us were distracted by big world events over this period, and most advances in the field of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) remained in the domain of research – AI/ML began delivering on its promise with practical applications in the market.

AI/ML is close to a point at which technology is commoditised, simplified, or abstracted and finds itself in the hands of the man in the street. Within five short years, it has gone from initial investment proof of concept research to demonstrating practical, for-profit services and, what we are observing in the industry now is the ability for AI/ML to automate new kinds of customer interactions as services. This will give a competitive advantage to market players able to capitalise on subscription-based offers.

The Biggest Pain Point

As always, the biggest and most pressing operational pressure for large organisations remains maintaining a balance between running and upgrading in-place systems while managing projects to introduce new ones. A point complicated further with a high-demand job market and exacerbated by accelerating specialist fragmentation in the labour pool. This pain point in emerging markets is especially pronounced as the attraction of both foreign currency as well as permanent residency are huge.

Specialists in different spheres are required to collaborate with more techniques and approaches for a broader set of technologies in order to keep up with increasing complexity of the modern technology stack. To illustrate, “full stack development” up until recently implied a single role responsible for the delivery of a fully functional software system, its deployment and ongoing maintenance. This designation no longer covers software delivery that additionally includes cloud, infrastructure as code, security, data engineering, data science and the governance and compliance it entails as even more new sub-disciplines continue to emerge. Technical expertise required to hone skills like this is coming from an increasingly shrinking pool of resources pressured by demand from overseas markets facing similar circumstances and looking abroad with offers of work visas and payments in dollars, pounds and euros.

Organisations can address this with operational tactics to close hiring gaps over the next six months but would need to form strategic, longer-term programmes over the same period to be able to retain qualified personnel in a market which aggressively draws talent with interesting variety of problems in creative environments.