March 17, 2022

Call for Entries Issued for the 2022 Stevie® Awards for Great Employers

Seventh Annual Honors for Employers and HR Professionals is Accepting Nominations

FAIRFAX, Va., March 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Stevie Awards has issued the call for entries for the seventh annual Stevie® Awards for Great Employers, which honor the world’s best companies to work for and the human resources teams, professionals, suppliers, and new products and services that help to create and drive great places to work.

All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit, and non-profit, large and small – may submit nominations to the Stevie Awards for Great Employers. The early-bird entry deadline, with reduced entry fees, is April 27. The final entry deadline is June 8, but late entries will be accepted through July 7 with payment of a late fee. Entry details are available at www.StevieAwards.com/HR.

Juries composed of scores of executives around the world will determine the Stevie Award winners. Winners will be announced on August 8. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be presented their awards at a gala event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on September 17.

The Stevie Awards for Great Employers recognize achievement in many facets of the workplace. Categories include:

There are new categories in 2022 for Thought Leadership including Achievement in Thought Leadership Skills, Achievement in Thought Leadership Talent, Achievement in Thought Leadership for Recruitment, Achievements in Internal Thought Leadership, and HR Thought Leader of the Year.

Fourteen of the 16 HR Individual categories do not require payment of entry fees.

Winners in the 31 industry-specific Employer of the Year categories will be determined by a unique blend of public votes and professional ratings. Public voting will take place from July 11 – August 1.

Stevie Award winners in 2021 included Allied Irish Banks (Ireland), Bank of America (USA), IBM (USA), Dell Technologies (USA), Everise (Singapore), Fullscript (Canada), Globe Telecom (Philippines), MGM China (China), PT. Bank Central Asia Tbk (Indonesia), Rakuten USA, Salary.com (USA), Turkcell İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. (Turkey), Upwork (USA), and many more.

About the Stevie® Awards:
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

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March 17, 2022March 18, 2022

WHO Says Africa Faces Rising Substance Abuse Post-COVID

African health groups have warned that the COVID pandemic has led to a rise in drug and alcohol abuse on the continent, but a gap in data is making it hard to monitor. In South Africa, a Soweto-based nonprofit is scrambling to help youth to stay clean and sober.

Substance abuse — particularly alcohol consumption — has been on the rise in Africa for years, according to the World Health Organization.

The coronavirus pandemic that resulted in job losses and school closures has now amplified the problem.

The Ikageng children’s charity in Soweto says as many as 10 young people contact them daily suffering from addiction. Lydia Motloung, the acting program manager says that “during the lockdowns, they used to go and drink and some they were left in the houses alone, the parents are at work. And they start having the house parties and introduced to the alcohol, end up into crystal meth, which is very common around here, especially with schoolchildren.”

While Ikageng monitors the rise of addiction in the young people they’re helping, Motloung says national statistics on drug and alcohol abuse are sorely lacking.

“We normally get the statistics for COVID, you get the statistics for HIV, but we will never had any statistics for drugs and substance. I think if we can have that plan, the government can have that plan. … And then start funding the organization that are working with drugs and substance so that they fight it as they’re fighting for HIV and AIDS as they’re fighting for COVID,” she noted.

It’s not just South Africa that is lacking data on substance abuse, but the continent as a whole.

Florence Baingana is the African regional advisor on substance abuse for the World Health Organization.

“We may not count the exact numbers in each and every country. We know we have a problem. We also know that the services are inadequate, that one we know for a fact. Very often the alcohol treatment centers in the government facilities are underfunded. But I think if we were to begin by investing resources into building up the services, then we would be able to collect the data,” Baingana expressed.

She says investing in prevention would also be beneficial and less costly than treating addiction later on.

Ikageng’s caregivers like Nomali Monareng look for warning signs among the children they support.

She knows them first-hand, having struggled with addiction herself.

“Sometimes we need to start with parents. Most of children don’t, you don’t know how to talk about their feelings, don’t know how to express. Children need to be, to be taking care in all of their life, in all areas, like talking, having the conversation, even if it’s deep, even if it’s uncomfortable, you need to give the child a chance to talk,” she pointed out.

For those looking to get clean, the organization refers them to support groups that help people transition in and out of rehab.

They’re trying to offer skills training as well, so recoverees can find jobs and a purpose.

Vusi Nzimande is a project manager for the support program called Still We Rise.

“Where you find people idling, they don’t do nothing with their lives. That’s one of those things that causes us because of the mind is playing around. You started thinking too much. You don’t have a job; you don’t have anything to do. And then suddenly you see yourself going back to your old ways,” Nzimande said.

For the young people he’s helped, getting clean has been the first step. But experts say they’ll need opportunities and jobs to give them hope and keep them out of trouble in the long run.

Source: Voice of America

March 17, 2022

Shufti Pro annonce un financement de série A de 20 millions de dollars pour accélérer sa croissance

Le fournisseur de solutions de vérification d’identité de renommée mondiale, Shufti Pro, a annoncé avoir levé 20 millions de dollars en financement de série A dirigé par Updata Partners pour accélérer l’expansion mondiale et améliorer le développement des produits.

LONDRES, 17 mars 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Shufti Pro, un leader mondial du marché des solutions de vérification d’identité alimentées par l’IA, a annoncé avoir levé 20 millions de dollars en financement de série A dirigé par Updata Partners, une société de capital de croissance axée sur la technologie.

Cet investissement sera utilisé pour accélérer l’expansion mondiale de Shufti Pro en fournissant des ressources supplémentaires pour pousser sa solution entièrement automatisée vers de nouveaux marchés afin d’aider à résoudre le processus de vérification d’identité insatisfaisant des organisations, améliorer ses solutions de vérification d’identité et étendre la suite de conformité de la société.

Le mantra de Shufti Pro est de fournir une expérience client numérique transparente lorsqu’il s’agit de connaître sa clientèle, et en tant que tel, l’organisation fournit une gamme diversifiée de solutions avec la vérification d’identité au cœur de ses préoccupations. Avec l’évolution du monde et l’accélération de la transformation numérique, les services d’identité numérique sont devenus la pierre angulaire de toute organisation cherchant à vérifier l’identité de ses clients.

Alors que les entreprises poursuivent leur transformation numérique, s’appuyer sur des partenaires de vérification d’identité de confiance est devenu plus important que jamais. Victor Fredung, PDG de Shufti Pro, a déclaré : « Notre plateforme configurable et entièrement automatisée permet aux clients d’intégrer un processus de vérification sans friction spécifique à leurs objectifs commerciaux et offre la flexibilité nécessaire pour répondre aux exigences de confidentialité et de sécurité des données, y compris la possibilité de déployer une solution sur site. Nous nous efforçons de fournir la couverture mondiale exigée par les organisations sans frontières. »

Il existe un besoin mondial d’une solution flexible et conforme pour l’intégration, la vérification des antécédents et la gestion qui fonctionne au-delà des frontières sans préjudice des régions, des types d’entreprises et des langues. Le monde appelle à une solution plus large à sa crise numérique et Shufti Pro répond à ces questions par des capacités uniques :

Automatisation : la solution entièrement automatisée la plus avancée.

Couverture mondiale de diverses capacités de lecture dans toutes les langues principales, y compris l’arabe.

Configurable et hautement personnalisable tout en se spécialisant dans des exigences uniques. Notre solution peut être installée sur site, ce qui constitue un avantage unique sur le marché. Nous nous conformons aux exigences réglementaires les plus strictes, telles que VideoKYC en Allemagne ou la conservation des données aux Émirats arabes unis.

Selon Shahid Hanif, fondateur et directeur technique de Shufti Pro, la société compte déjà plus de 500 clients dans le monde. Il a ajouté : « Ce cycle de financement visait à trouver un partenaire stratégique possédant l’expérience et les connaissances nécessaires, ce que nous pensons avoir trouvé. Nous pouvons maintenant développer des produits plus intéressants et résoudre les problèmes d’intégration et de conformité rencontrés dans le monde entier. »

Depuis plus de 20 ans, Updata, une entreprise qui croit en la création de résultats exceptionnels pour les clients, les employés et les actionnaires, a soutenu les entrepreneurs de logiciels B2B qui ont un état d’esprit de croissance et reconnaissent l’efficacité du capital.

« Nous avons été impressionnés par les progrès technologiques et commerciaux réalisés par une entreprise amorcée. Shufti Pro est prête à s’appuyer sur cette base solide et à accélérer sa croissance », a déclaré Braden Snyder, associé chez Updata Partners.

À propos de Shufti Pro

Shufti Pro est un fournisseur de services de vérification d’identité offrant des services concernant les consommateurs, les entreprises et le blanchiment d’argent pour aider les entreprises internationales à intégrer et à gérer le risque des clients légitimes. L’entreprise basée au Royaume-Uni dispose de 5 bureaux régionaux et a lancé 17 produits de vérification d’identité différents depuis sa création en 2017. Avec la possibilité de vérifier les documents d’identité à l’échelle mondiale dans plus de 150 langues, Shufti Pro sert des clients dans plus de 230 pays et territoires.

Pour plus d’informations :

Graeme Rowe

Responsable du marketing | Shufti Pro

Graeme.r@shuftipro.com

+44 1225290329

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