Day: June 16, 2022

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Makram launches initiative to support Egyptians abroad

Minister for Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates’ Affairs Nabila Makram witnessed Thursday the launch of an initiative dubbed “Speak up… Egypt is with you.”

The initiative, which was launched in cooperation with the Egyptian online mental health platform Shezlong, aims to provide psychological support to the young Egyptians abroad.

The proceedings began by screening a documentary film on the initiative and its goals as well as the steps to register on the online platform to receive necessary treatment.

Founded in 2014, Shezlong helps patients connect with licensed therapists through online video calls, and uses cognitive behavioral therapy to teach individuals how to manage stress and anxiety.

 

 

Source: State Information Service Egypt

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PM directs to continue removing encroachments on agricultural lands

Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli issued directives to continue removing buildings encroaching on agricultural lands.

 

The premier also directed to continue enforcing the decision to stop providing all forms of state subsidies to those who construct new buildings illegally on agricultural lands.

 

Madbouli’s remarks came during a meeting held Thursday 16/6/2022 at the New Administrative Capital, in the presence of a host of ministers and senior officials.

 

The meeting was also attended via video conference by the governors of South Sinai, Port Said, Suez, Assiut, Damietta, Fayyoum, Gharbia, Menoufia, Beni Suef and the deputy governors of the New Valley and Kafr El Sheikh.

 

Madbouli, meanwhile, said that urban encroachment on agricultural land and building violations represent a threat to Egypt’s food security.

 

“Any new violations on the agricultural land would be severely countered,” Madbouli affirmed during the meeting.

 

 

 

Source: State Information Service Egypt

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Closing session of Sharm El Sheikh-hosted conf. kicks off

Proceedings of the closing session of the Eighth Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians kicked off in Sharm El Sheikh on Thursday 16/6/2022.

 

The two-day conference, held under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, is jointly organized by the House of Representatives and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

 

Four sessions were held between the participating young parliamentarians and representatives of NGOs and experts.

The climate change is an existential threat that affects all regions around the world, warned Sahar el Bazzar, a member of the Egyptian House of Representatives, and the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Forum of Young Parliamentarians.

 

Speaking during the closing session of the Eighth Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians in Sharm El Sheikh, Bazzar urged the international community to exert more efforts to confront the global climate crisis.

 

Human rights are linked with climate change because of its devastating effect on human beings, she further said.

 

Talking about the climate finance, Bazzar said that that the developed countries have committed to contribute dlrs 100 billion annually to address climate change, but this goal has not been achieved yet.

She, meanwhile, referred to the legislative role in ensuring that the developed countries will deliver on their pledge.

The sessions tackled the climate change issue and its effect on human rights as well as the parliamentary action to address climate change along with the partnership between the NGOs and the parliamentarians to combat climate change.

Delivering a speech during the closing session of the Eighth Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians, President of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) Duarte Pacheco extended thanks to the young parliamentarians all over the world, who were keen to attend the event to shed light on the challenges besetting the world, topped by the climate change and the plans that should be taken in order to address this issue.

 

Pacheco underlined the importance of the climate change issue, pointing out to the crucial role played by the youth in order to find solutions to this issue.

 

“I affirmed several times that inaction on the climate crisis will cost us dearly especially if we do not take immediate tangible steps,” he added.

 

He also stressed that it is important to fulfill climate pledges of Paris Agreement and turn them into a tangible reality on the ground.

 

Concluding his speech, Pacheco said that it is necessary to see a change during the climate summit which will be held in Sharm El Sheikh in November.

 

He hoped that Egypt’s presidency of the COP27 would help turn promises and commitments into actions.

 

It is important to take decisive steps now to address the climate change issue, he made it clear.

 

 

 

Source: State Information Service Egypt

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$BioFi Ecosystem Announcement – Biometric Financial (BioFi) Announces a New Provider Relationship with Providence Software Solutions – South Africa

$BioFi Safeguards Your Personal data while Leveraging the Blockchain and Decentralized Web 3.0 services

WELDON SPRING, MO / ACCESSWIRE / June 16, 2022 / Biometric Financial (BioFi), an innovative ecosystem and Providence Software Solutions – South Africa, owner of the Mobile Pay digital wallet announce today that Providence will become a New Provider in the Biometric Financial ecosystem. The New Provider relationship will allow Providence to offer the BioFi biometrics within its digital wallet, across all of its existing customers, and to all potential new customers, while supporting accelerated adoption of the $BioFi token.

Providence will integrate the BioFi biometrics into the Mobile Pay digital wallet, and showcase this solution in South Africa, the Middle East, and throughout India, engaging hundreds of corporate customers, who themselves have the ability to become Providers in the Biometric Financial ecosystem.

Providence provides direct access to over 100 companies, with a combined community size of 20+ million users across South Africa, the Middle East, and throughout India.

The BioFi biometric solution will be utilized to authenticate customers on the various products that Providence manages as part of its service provider relationships. The $BioFi token will be utilized as the method of payment for authentication services.

Providence applications will also be pre-loaded on the Phenix X1 smartphone which will allow for expanded usage wherever the smartphone is sold across the regions where Providence is active. The UniSafeBox password manager and Krptic wallet will be included in the lineup of solutions that Providence can offer during customer engagements. Providence will also be engaged with the BioFi ecosystem to innovate around immersive experiences with the metaverse for corporate clients and their customers.

The BioFi project represents a Utility Token and a secure set of solutions that leverages biometric security to provide decentralized finance (DeFi) products and services riding on the blockchain. The Phenix X1 smartphone is designed with a highly secure area to protect against fraudsters and to ensure security when running financial apps, transacting online, mining cryptocurrencies, and storing digital assets. UniSafeBox combines biometric encryption technology with blockchain hashing algorithms to secure passwords and a wide array of personal sensitive information.

The Providence engagement philosophy centers around high-end design solutions that leverage the latest and most innovative software and technology. Over the past five years Providence has successfully delivered over a hundred projects in various markets, while providing custom solutions in web applications as well as mobile applications, and providing managed services to valued clients.

Brian Maw, CEO and Co-Founder of Finnovant, Inc., stated, “We are very excited to be working with Prabhakar and Providence Software Solutions as a new Provider in the BioFi ecosystem, where we will offer joint solutions in high growth regions of the world, utilizing the user-friendly biometrics and the $BioFi token – This allows us to secure critical customer data and provide helpful Utility to every person.”

Providers of the BioFi ecosystem can integrate easily with biometric API’s, highlighting the unique utility advantage that the entire service can bring.  The Biometric Financial website showcases many examples of utility currently available or in development, while providing services to tens of thousands of users globally.

BioFi is truly global in nature, not bound by a single language or territory, and designed to be user friendly with the added benefit of helping people feel more secure as access is tied to them individually.

Biometric Financial website:  https://biometricfinancial.org/home/

“In line with our founding values, we know that our customers’ business matters to them, therefore it matters to us. With this in mind we share the same values as Finnovant, where the focus is on the customer,” says Prabhakar Manikonda, Executive Director at Providence Software Solutions – South Africa. “Our Provider relationship with the BioFi ecosystem will help us provide the greatest Utility to our customers with amazing biometric security, while supporting new customer acquisition models with such innovative solutions that improve ease of use.”

About FINNOVANT 

Finnovant Inc. was founded with the vision of helping business leaders dramatically improve the way they interact with their critical information and customers. Our focus is on developing emerging technologies with secure blockchain solutions in the areas of Financial Services, Governance, IoT, Healthcare, and more and improving digital security for our customers. Finnovant provides biometric authentication which helps thwart Identity Theft and Fraud.

Follow Finnovant at Finnovant.com, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Discord

Chris Benedict
Finnovant, Inc.
1-844-724-8911
[email protected]

About Providence Software Solutions – South Africa

Providence Software Solutions – South Africa was Founded in 2005 with the vision of being a results-driven software solution provider. Providence provides innovative and efficient services and solutions that allow companies to achieve their full potential while subscribing to the South African governments Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment policy and strategy by being a Level 1 B-BBEE company.

Follow Providence Software Solutions on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and also visit the Providence Software Solutions – South Africa company site.

Prabhakar Manikonda, Executive Director

Providence Software Solutions
35 Western Service Road, Wendywood, Sandton
Johannesburg ZA-GP-2148
South Africa
+27 (0) 72 695 5414
https://providencesoftware.co.za/

SOURCE: Finnovant Inc

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‫معهد تكساس لاضطراب ضربات القلب في مركز سانت ديفيد الطبي يستضيف ندوة دولية افتراضية حول اضطراب انتظام ضربات القلب المعقدة

أوستن، تكساس، 16 يونيو/حزيران 2022 / PRNewswire / — في 2 و3 يونيو/حزيران 2022، سيستضيف معهد تكساس لاضطراب انتظام ضربات القلب ( TCAI ) في مركز سانت ديفيد الطبي ندوته الدولية السادسة حول اضطراب انتظام ضربات القلب المعقدة، EPLive 2022 . شهد حدث هذا العام تسجيل أكثر من 1250 شخصًا، وهو رقم قياسي، كما حضر هذه الندوة أكثر من 150 شخصًا. كان هناك حضور من جميع أنحاء العالم، بما في ذلك سنغافورة وتايلاند وتونس وألمانيا وكوريا واليونان.

 وكان من بين المشاركين أخصائيو الفيزيولوجيا الكهربية القلبية المتمرسون، وأخصائيو الفيزيولوجيا الكهربية وأطباء القلب العامون المهتمون بمعالجة اضطرابات نظم القلب المعقدة، وهي حالة ينبض فيها القلب بإيقاع غير منتظم أو غير طبيعي. وكانت أداة التعليم الأساسية هي الحالات الحية التي تم بثها من مركز الفيزيولوجيا الكهربية الجديد في مركز سانت ديفيد الطبي المتقدم، مع تعليقات الخبراء.

تميزت الحالات الحية التي أجريت خلال EPLive 2022 بتقنيات جديدة ابتكرها أطباء في TCAI ، بما في ذلك التثقيب الكهربائي غير الردود، والذي يساعد مرضى اضطراب انتظام ضربات القلب باستخدام الحقول الكهربائية الخاضعة للرقابة لإنشاء ندوب صغيرة في القلب لمنع الإشارات الكهربائية غير المنتظمة، وبالتالي تقليل مخاطر الإصابة تلف الأوردة أو الشرايين أو الأعصاب لدى المريض.

قال أندريا ناتالي، دكتور في الطب، F.H.R.S. ،F.A.C.C ،F.E.C ، أخصائي فيزيولوجيا القلب الكهربائية والمدير الطبي التنفيذي لـ TCAI ومدير الدورة التدريبية EPLive : “بدءًا من أحدث التقنيات التي تم الكشف عنها إلى أرقام التسجيل القياسية لدينا، كان هذا حقًا أكثر برامج EPLive أهمية حتى الآن.” “تلعب EPLive دورًا رائدًا في توسيع نطاق خيارات العلاج الفيزيولوجيا الكهربية، والتي نأمل أن تؤثر بشكل إيجابي على حياة المرضى في جميع أنحاء العالم.”

EPLive تتكون من أربع جلسات كل جلسة عبارة عن مجموعة من الحالات الحية والمسجلة من معهد تكساس لاضطراب انتظام ضربات القلب وبعض المراكز الرائدة في العالم: مركز CardioInfantil لاضطراب انتظام ضربات القلب (كولومبيا)،مركز القلب والأوعية الدموية في بروكسل، مصحة كليفلاند، معهد كانساس سيتي لإيقاع القلب، مستشفى ليفربول للقلب والصدر (المملكة المتحدة)، مستشفى ماس العام، مستشفى ميثوديست (هيوستن، تكساس)، مستشفى مونتيفيور (نيويورك)، مركز مونزينو للقلب (إتاي)، مستشفى ماونت سيناي (نيويورك)، باسيفيك هارت (كاليفورنيا)، المركز الطبي بجامعة أركنساس، جامعة كاليفورنيا، جامعة شيكاغو للطب، كلية الطب بجامعة كولورادو، مستشفى جامعة بروكسل، جامعة بنسلفانيا، وجامعة تكساس ساوث ويسترن الطبية، جامعة فاندربيلت، المركز الطبي الإقليمي ويستسايد (فلوريدا) وجامعة يدي تبه (تركيا).

بالإضافة إلى العروض التوضيحية للدكتور ناتالي، ستقدم EPLive عروضًا تقديمية من قبل عدد من أطباء TCAI ، بما في ذلك المدير المشارك للدورة، أمين الأحمد، دكتور في الطب، وكذلك شين بيلي، دكتور في الطب؛ محمد بسيوني، دكتور في الطب؛ ديفيد بوركهارت، دكتور في الطب؛ ديفيد بوركلاند، دكتور في الطب؛ روبرت كانبي، دكتور في الطب؛ جوزيف جالينجهاوس، دكتور في الطب؛ بريان جريت، دكتور في الطب؛ Eric M. Hoenicke ، دكتور في الطب؛ رودني هورتون، دكتور في الطب؛ باتريك هرانيتسكي، دكتور في الطب؛ خافيير سانشيز، دكتور في الطب؛ كامالا تاميريسا، دكتور في الطب؛ سينثيل ثامبيدوراي، دكتور في الطب؛ ديفيد تشوب، دكتور في الطب؛ وجيسون زاغرودزكي، دكتور في الطب.

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Zoomlion Brings Star Excavator to Buildexpo Africa 2022 and Kicks off Africa Service Tour

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (“Zoomlion”; 1157.HK) has presented a lineup of star products, including the ZE215E excavator, at the 23rd Buildexpo 2022 hosted May in Nairobi, Kenya.

Zoomlion announced at the expo that it will kick off the 2022 Africa service tour to visit local customers, inspect and evaluate equipment operation conditions, and troubleshoot problems while giving operation and maintenance training to customers and operators. Zoomlion also aims to understand the customers’ demands better and offer timely assistance. Zoomlion has been carrying out the Africa service tours since 2010.

“Infrastructure construction is of great significance to the development of industrialization and improvement in Africa,” said Li Bin, Deputy General Manager of Overseas Company of Zoomlion. “We follow the localization strategy in terms of product development, such as to cope with the working environment in Africa. We’ve adopted a variety of technological and technical solutions to improve the heat dissipation capacity of the equipment and maximize the protection of key components and ensure the equipment safety.”

Zoomlion entered the African market in 2007 and has established a comprehensive network with an improved product strategy and a strengthened service and spare parts support system. It now sells hosting, earthmoving, concrete machinery, and more across Africa in countries including Algeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola, and Cameroon. To date, Zoomlion has sold a total of 5000 units of equipment in Africa.

In the past decade, Zoomlion has participated in many key construction projects in Africa to support local infrastructure, including the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, Hass Towers (once highest building in Africa), the new terminal of Houari Boumediene Airport in Algeria.

Zoomlion has registered subsidiaries in South Africa and set up offices in Algeria and West Africa, spare parts warehouses in Algeria and Johannesburg, South Africa, with a local service team consisting of dozens of employees, extended local dealers and distribution channels to provide local customers with one-stop services of sales, service, technology and financing. Zoomlion’s joint venture founded in 2017 in Algeria is now the top three largest Chinese construction machinery exporters in Africa.

“As a leading construction machinery manufacturer, Zoomlion actively supports the constructions in Africa with an effective sales and service team, offering local support to ensure our products operate smoothly,” Mr. Li said.

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Outreach cements commitment to EMEA with new data centre in Ireland

The company’s first European data centre enables EMEA customers to go beyond GDPR requirements to meet stringent data residency requirements including ISO 27701 data privacy certification

LONDON, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Outreach, the sales execution platform helping revenue organizations deliver efficient, predictable growth, opened a dedicated EU data centre in Dublin, Ireland, to support its EMEA customers go beyond GDPR requirements to meet stringent data residency requirements. This cements Outreach’s commitment towards helping its global customers adhere to tight privacy regulations.

The new data centre helps Outreach achieve customers’ data residency within the European Union. Hosted in Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) regional data centre in Dublin, it stores customer-owned data associated with Outreach instances. These include prospects, accounts, organisations, and workflow data such as sequences, calls, and meetings contained within the EU infrastructure, all of which are processed using Outreach.

Outreach EMEA customers who opt in to the new data centre will be able to use Outreach Engage, Outreach’s sales engagement platform that enables organisations to maximise prospecting productivity and continuously optimize their sales execution. With proven engagement workflows that turn insights into actions, Outreach Engage helps sellers make the best decisions to advance their deals across every moment of the sales cycle.

Outreach plans to introduce additional features and services, including Outreach Insights reports, Outreach Commit and Outreach Guide, to its new data centre to optimize sales execution across its customer base in EMEA. This will enable salespeople all over EMEA to capitalise on sales automation and buyer sentiment to deliver tailored services to their prospects.

“Our new data centre  allows European sales leaders and their teams to drive growth with an intelligent system that meets the most rigorous data security and privacy requirements in the world,” said Manny Medina, chief executive officer and co-founder at Outreach. “Over the past two years, we opened our UK office and Prague innovation centre, and launched a series of EMEA-focused features, including support in 18 languages and multiple currencies, as well as local schedule-based sequence setup to allow for different workweek configurations and holiday support. Our new data centre is the latest addition to our ongoing support for our European customers so they can capitalise on the full potential of our sales execution products and services.”

Outreach is committed to meeting rigorous data security and data privacy requirements as supported by key independent third party certifications. The Outreach Sales Execution Platform already meets key requirements of the EU and UK GDPR. Outreach is also one of the first within its category to meet ISO 27701 data privacy certification to demonstrate compliance with GDPR and other data protection regulations. The additional provision of a data centre within the EU ensures that businesses operating in the EU that require data residency within the same geography as part of the security and privacy policies can do so using Outreach Engage.

About Outreach

Outreach is the sales execution platform helping revenue organizations deliver efficient, predictable growth. We are helping organizations achieve their growth potential by delivering sales execution workflows that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to close execution gaps across the entire sales cycle, from prospecting to deal management to forecasting. Outreach is the only company to offer sales engagement, revenue intelligence, and revenue operations together in one platform. More than 5,500 companies, including Zoom, Adobe, Okta, DocuSign, and SAP, depend on Outreach to power their revenue organizations. Outreach is a privately held company based in Seattle, Washington, with offices worldwide. To learn more, please visit www.outreach.io.

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Microsoft announces Viva Sales, redefining the seller experience and enhancing productivity

Viva Sales works with any seller’s CRM to automate data entry and brings AI-powered intelligence to sellers in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams

REDMOND, Wash., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On Thursday, Microsoft Corp. announced Microsoft Viva Sales, a new seller experience application. Viva Sales enriches any CRM system with customer engagement data from Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, and leverages AI to provide personalized recommendations and insights for sellers to be more connected with their customers. This helps sellers more seamlessly personalize their customer engagements toward faster deal closure.

Microsoft company logo.

Employees are demanding more from their employers in today’s hybrid world — from the tools they use, to the hours and locations they work. This is especially true for salespeople. Viva Sales enables sellers to capture insights from across Microsoft 365 and Teams, eliminate manual data entry, and receive AI-driven recommendations and reminders — all the while staying in the flow of work. Viva Sales streamlines the seller experience by surfacing the insights with the right context within tools salespeople already use, saving sellers time and providing the organization with a more complete view of the customer.

“The future of selling isn’t a new system. It’s bringing the information sellers need at the right time, with the right context, into the tools they know, so their work experience can be streamlined,” said Judson Althoff, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Microsoft. “Empowering sellers to spend more time with their customers has been our goal — and we’ve done that by reimagining the selling experience with Viva Sales.”

“Sellers rely on digital collaboration and productivity tools to connect with customers and close deals, but a lot of the insights they uncover with these tools don’t make it into the CRM,” said Paul Greenberg, founder and managing principal, The 56 Group. “Microsoft is taking on this challenge by offering a solution that complements the CRM. Viva Sales automates the busy work, captures critical information about the customer and helps sellers get the job done.”

Reimagining the seller experience

Viva Sales builds on Microsoft Viva, which was launched last year. Viva provides an integrated employee experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, goals and insights to empower every person and team to be their best from anywhere. Viva Sales delivers the first role-based Viva application designed specifically for sellers:

  • Viva Sales provides tools for sellers to do their jobs, while providing the insights that sales leadership needs. As sellers are working, they can tag customers in Outlook, Teams or Office applications like Excel, and Viva Sales will automatically capture it as a customer record, layered with all relevant data about the customer. Being able to automatically capture this level of customer engagement data was not available previously. This data can easily be shared with team members while collaborating in Office and Teams without retyping or looking it up in a CRM.
  • Powered by data and AI, Viva Sales recommends next steps to progress a customer through the sales funnel, prioritizes work and next steps, and enables sellers to access full history and customer interaction materials. Real-time customer insights provide a deeper understanding of where each customer is in their purchase journey, and how to guide the relationship.
  • Viva Sales also provides AI-driven recommendations to enable sellers to enhance their customer engagement — optimizing follow-through with next best steps, actionable reminders, and recommendations to accelerate and close more sales. Viva Sales is using Context IQ, announced last fall, to ensure relevant content is connected across Microsoft apps and services — like Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 — so sellers save time and stay in the flow of work.

With Viva Sales, we are creating a new category of application addressing the selling experience. Microsoft is uniquely positioned to offer this type of application within the productivity and collaboration apps employees are already using.

To learn more, visit the Official Microsoft Blog and the Microsoft Dynamics 365 blog.

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