Avast Antivirus vend les données de ses utilisateurs en masse

Comme vous pouvez l´avoir lu dans les médias tels que heise online, le fabricant d’antivirus Avast a vendu des données sensibles de ses utilisateurs à Google, Yelp, Microsoft, McKinsey, Pepsi, Sephora et bien d’autres. C’est vraiment catastrophique !

D´après les informations en notre possession, Avast (qui comprend également AVG) a vendu des données d’environ 435 millions de clients dans le monde. Ces données incluent de nombreuses informations sur les recherches Google, les vidéos YouTube et les coordonnées GPS. Ainsi, les entreprises savent même des choses explosives comme les sites pornographiques respectés des utilisateurs d’Avast / AVG.

Il y a un vieil adage qui dit : lorsque vous ne payez pas pour le produit, vous êtes le produit. Pour l’instant, cela semble être le cas avec le logiciel antivirus d’Avast.

Dans notre prochaine revue, nous vous ferons part d´une liste des meilleurs antivirus fiables que nous conseillons aux entreprises et aux particuliers camerounais.

Nous ouvrons ici une série d´information sur le thème « transformation et sécurité digitale «, avec pour but de sensibiliser la communauté camerounaise sur le danger et les avantages de l´utilisation de certains logiciels.

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The digital revolution changes the nature of innovation

The digital revolution changes the nature of innovation. One of the key characteristics of the digital revolution is that it is nurtured by a different type of innovation, increasingly based on digital technologies and on the new business models it allows. In addition to making traditional research tools more powerful, it allows for new and near-costless types of innovation that require little or no R&D effort. Examples include the digitization of existing products and processes, distributed manufacturing, blockchains, and advertising-based “free services” as well as the prospect of more “uberized” activities in multiple sectors, including transport, banking, entertainment, and education. The Network Readiness Index data show that the minds of business executives around the world are increasingly focused on innovation, as reflected by the steady upward trend in firms’ perceived capacity to innovate. Traditional measures for innovation, such as the number of patents registered, are picking up only part of the story. Instead, new types of innovation, such as business-model innovation, look set to become an important part of the innovation story: executives in almost 100 countries report increases in the perceived impact of ICTs on business-model innovation compared with last year.

Source: World Economic Forum report on The Global Information Technology 2016

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GITR2016/WEF_GITR_Full_Report.pdf

Preparing Africa for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The World Economic Forum’s Human Capital Index finds that Sub-Saharan Africa currently only captures 55% of its human capital potential, compared to a global average of 65%. With more than 60% of its population under the age of 25, Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s youngest region. By 2030, the continent’s working-age population is set to increase by two-thirds, from 370 million adults in 2010 to over 600 million in 2030.

The region’s capacity to adapt to further job disruption is a concern. Employers across the region already identify inadequately skilled workforces as a major constraint to their businesses. Often this skills instability stems from the fact that many jobs in the region are becoming more intense in their use of digital technologies. Average ICT intensity of jobs in South Africa increased by 26% over the last decade, while 6.7% of all formal sector employment in Ghana and 18.4% of all formal sector employment in Kenya occurs in occupations with high ICT intensity.

The greatest long-term benefits of ICT intensive jobs in the region are likely to be not in the lower-skilled delivery of digital products or services but in digital design, creation and engineering. To build a pipeline of future skills, Africa’s educators should design future-ready curricula that encourage critical thinking, creativity and emotional intelligence as well as accelerate acquisition of digital and STEM skills to match the way people will work and collaborate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Source: World Economic Forum report on The Future of Jobs and Skills in Africa

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_EGW_FOJ_Africa.pdf