DCA Digital Digest: Data protection: Top 3 business challenges

1. Data protection: Top 3 business challenges

The amount of data enterprises are collecting and managing is exploding, and with that comes problems protecting it, according to a Thursday report from Dell EMC. Protecting enterprise data is a major challenge, due in part to the sheer volume of data collected and its importance to business operations, the report found.

2. New mobile broadband pricing data reveals stalling progress on affordability

Those who live in low-income countries face the least affordable mobile broadband prices in the world. Now, new data from the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) finds that low-income countries saw mobile broadband costs increase for the first time in four years. The data shows that progress on affordability globally has stalled — and in some countries, it is reversing.
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3. Fintech and the future of Africa explained

Seven of the world’s 20 fastest-growing economies are African, and the continent’s total GDP is forecast to double between 2015 and 2030. By 2050, African will be home to a quarter of the world’s population. It currently has the youngest and fastest growing workforce: 60 percent of the population is under 25.
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4. Women VCs investments explains the inequality in their field

Female venture capitalists (VCs) have made steady progress over the past few decades, but still make up a small percentage of VCs overall. Data released today (Mar. 25) by grassroots initiative Women in VC reveals the limitations that female VCs are working under, and how they affect the progress of women in VC as well as female founders.
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