November 21, 2022

Quantexa Launches Global Community Site to Accelerate Adoption and Deployment of Decision Intelligence Solutions

The Community will facilitate direct access to Quantexa subject-matter- experts, discussion forums, and support resources

LONDON, Nov. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, Quantexa, a global leader in Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions for the private and public sectors, launched its new online global community site. The site is set to serve as a hub for Quantexa team members, customers, and partners to collaborate, find information and share knowledge about Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform and solutions.

The Community will provide a place to collaborate on topics including best practices and technical discussions, including, group forums with access to:

Technical best practice guides, success stories, and user generated content.
Tailored training and certification paths built by Quantexa’s subject matter experts.
Opportunities to provide solution feedback and feature requests directly to Quantexa.

Laura Hutton, Chief Customer Officer, Quantexa said, “Our focus remains on maximizing the ROI for our customers and partners and our new community site supports this continued effort. We are excited to give the teams working with our Decision Intelligence Platform an opportunity to interact with each other, continued structured learning opportunities, and a place to collaborate.”

Quantexa Community access can be requested at https://community.quantexa.com to unlock exclusive features, programs, and content.

ABOUT QUANTEXA
Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence that empowers organizations to make trusted operational decisions by making data meaningful. Using the latest advancements in big data and AI, Quantexa’s platform uncovers hidden risk and new opportunities by providing a contextual, connected view of internal and external data in a single place. It solves major challenges across data management, KYC, customer intelligence, financial crime, risk, fraud, and security, throughout the customer lifecycle.

The Quantexa Contextual Decision Intelligence Platform enhances operational performance with over 90% more accuracy and 60 times faster analytical model resolution than traditional approaches. Founded in 2016, Quantexa now has more than 500 employees and thousands of users working with billions of transactions and data points across the world. The company has offices in London, New York, Boston, Washington DC, Brussels, Toronto, Singapore, Melbourne, and Sydney. For more information, contact Quantexa here or follow us on LinkedIn.

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November 21, 2022

TRADE X Expands its Presence in Africa with the Opening of a Trade Route in Ghana

This is the third TRADE X facility in Africa, following the opening of an import facility in Lagos, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya earlier this year

TORONTO, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — TRADE X, a B2B cross-border automotive trading platform with its headquarters in Ontario, Canada, today announced that it has opened a new trade route in Ghana, strengthening the company’s presence in Africa after having recently opened new import facilities in Lagos, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya.

With the opening of new trading routes and now expanding into Ghana, TRADE X is aiming to connect automotive dealers in various regions of Africa, which boast a rising middle-class population, to pre-owned inventory in North America, Europe and other strategic export locations. Earlier this month, TRADE X signed a partnership agreement with the Vehicle and Asset Dealers Union of Ghana (VADUG) to increase visibility and encourage more dealers to take advantage of the company’s easy-to-use platform.

“People in Ghana hold onto cars for a long time,” said Oaniyan Jeremiah Williams, Head of Business Development for TRADE X in Ghana. “There is both a huge market here and a need for a platform like TRADE X that connects buyers and sellers safely and compliantly. Recently, a dealer shared with me that he sent money to a seller in Europe for a vehicle but has not yet received the inventory he paid for. This unfortunately common occurrence is not possible through the TRADE X platform, as each user is screened, and all transactions are routed through a secure portal at the time of the transaction. So, we are providing an obvious need to dealers in this region.”

The TRADE X platform connects automotive dealers, fleet owners, rental companies and mobility solution providers with trading partners around the world. When users log onto the TRADE X platform on their desktop or via the TRADE X global app, they can ensure they not only have access to admissible inventory and the best possible deals—but that they are transacting in a secure and streamlined way that removes the complexities of logistics, homologation, compliance and customs. Dealers can use the marketplace to request specific makes or models using the platform’s “Instant Request” feature, review specific search results to assess real-time pricing, and make vehicle purchases safely, transparently and compliantly.

Buyers in Ghana, who import a significant number of cars from Germany, favour smaller engine brands such as Mitsubishi, Suzuki and Peugeot.

TRADE X has opened a small office in Accra and further plans to open a warehouse facility in the city.

“We are excited to bring TRADE X to Ghana and to expand our footprint in Africa,” said TRADE X Senior Vice President of Global Business Development Eric Gosselin. “As the automotive industry responds to major shifts around environmental standards, dealers in the U.S. and Europe will need a market for their older vehicles, and we believe that Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya represent prime markets. We look forward to working with Ghanaian dealers to communicate the benefits of using the TRADE X platform to source and purchase their pre-owned automotive inventory.”

Automotive dealers, fleet companies, and mobility providers in Ghana who are interested in trading via the TRADE X platform can sign up at tradexport.com to begin the process of buying and selling vehicles.

About TRADE X

With headquarters in Ontario, Canada, TRADE X is the first global vehicle marketplace to aggregate cross-border supply and demand for car dealers, fleet owners, rental companies, mobility solution providers, importers, and exporters, opening new trading corridors to buy and sell vehicles. The TRADE X ‘Brain’ platform is a machine-learning, AI-driven technology that connects buyers and sellers through a transparent marketplace that aids sellers in finding the world’s highest paying markets and gives buyers access to the best vehicle source markets and price arbitrage opportunities. Users can quickly and seamlessly transact online in a secure environment with all the complexities of international trade – compliance, anti-money laundering regulations, vehicle inspection, currency exchange, digital trade documentation, payments, and financing – all managed by TRADE X. The company serves authorized buyers and sellers everywhere with a user-friendly app available 24/7 via mobile, tablet, or desktop. TRADE X’s largest investors include Aimia Inc., a publicly traded holding company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: AIM). To learn more, please visit www.tradexport.com.

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November 21, 2022November 22, 2022

NASA Capsule Buzzes Moon, Last Big Step Before Lunar Orbit

NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon Monday, whipping around the back side and passing within 80 miles (128 kilometers) on its way to a record-breaking lunar orbit.

The close approach occurred as the crew capsule and its three test dummies were on the far side of the moon. Because of the half-hour communication blackout, flight controllers in Houston did not know if the critical engine firing went well until the capsule emerged from behind the moon, more than 232,000 miles (375,000 kilometers) from Earth.

It’s the first time a capsule has visited the moon since NASA’s Apollo program 50 years ago, and represented a huge milestone in the $4.1 billion test flight that began last Wednesday. Orion’s flight path took it over the landing sites of Apollo 11, 12 and 14 — humanity’s first three lunar touchdowns.

The moon loomed ever larger in the video beamed back earlier in the morning, as the capsule closed the final few thousand miles since blasting off last Wednesday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, atop the most powerful rocket ever built by NASA.

“This is one of those days that you’ve been thinking about and talking about for a long, long time,” flight director Zeb Scoville said while awaiting to resume contact.

As the capsule swung out from behind the moon, onboard cameras sent back a picture of Earth — a blue dot surrounded by blackness.

Orion needed to slingshot around the moon to pick up enough speed to enter the sweeping, lopsided lunar orbit. If all continues to go well, another engine firing will place the capsule in that orbit Friday.

Next weekend, Orion will shatter NASA’s distance record for a spacecraft designed for astronauts — nearly 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers) from Earth, set by Apollo 13 in 1970. And it will keep going, reaching a maximum distance from Earth next Monday at nearly 270,000 miles (433,000 kilometers).

The capsule will spend close to a week in lunar orbit, before heading home. A Pacific splashdown is planned for Dec. 11.

Orion has no lunar lander; a touchdown won’t come until NASA astronauts attempt a lunar landing in 2025 with SpaceX’s Starship. Before then, however, astronauts will strap into Orion for a ride around the moon as early as 2024.

NASA managers were delighted with the progress of the mission. The Space Launch System rocket performed exceedingly well in its debut, they told reporters late last week.

The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket caused more damage than expected, however, at the Kennedy Space Center launch pad. The force from the 8.8 million pounds (4 million kilograms) of liftoff thrust was so great that it tore off the blast doors of the elevator.

Source: Voice of America

November 21, 2022November 22, 2022

WHO Identifying Potential Pandemic Pathogens

The World Health Organization said Monday it was thrashing out a new list of priority pathogens that risk sparking pandemics or outbreaks and should be kept under close observation.

The WHO said the aim was to update a list used to guide global research and development (R&D) and investment, especially in vaccines, tests and treatments.

As part of that process, which started Friday, the United Nations’ health agency is convening more than 300 scientists to consider evidence on more than 25 virus families and bacteria.

They will also consider the so-called Disease X, an unknown pathogen that could cause a serious international epidemic.

“Targeting priority pathogens and virus families for research and development of countermeasures is essential for a fast and effective epidemic and pandemic response,” said WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan.

“Without significant R&D investments prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it would not have been possible to have safe and effective vaccines developed in record time.”

The list was first published in 2017.

It currently includes COVID-19, Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Nipah, Zika and Disease X.

For each pathogen identified as a priority, experts will pinpoint knowledge gaps and research priorities.

Desired specifications for vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests can then be drawn up.

Efforts are also made to facilitate clinical trials to develop such tools, while efforts to strengthen regulatory and ethics oversight are also considered.

The revised list is expected to be published before April 2023.

Pandemic treaty

The pathogen threat sessions come as the WHO prepares for the next round of talks toward a pandemic treaty.

An intergovernmental negotiating body is paving the way toward a global agreement that could eventually regulate how nations prepare for and respond to future pandemic threats.

They are due to meet in Geneva from December 5 to 7 for a third meeting to draft and negotiate a WHO convention or other kind of international agreement on pandemic preparedness and response.

A progress report will be presented to WHO member states next year, with the final outcome presented for their consideration in 2024.

An initial draft text for the December meeting emerged last week.

The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention, an independent coalition of statespersons and health leaders, said the draft did not go far enough, despite its bright spots.

The panel said Monday that more should be done to establish accountability and clear timelines for alert and response to avoid damaging consequences when an outbreak emerges.

“Once an outbreak is detected, there are often a few critical hours to report, assess and act to stop the spread of a disease before it becomes virtually unstoppable,” the panel said in a statement.

“The current draft does not go far enough to call out the urgency needed to either prepare for disease X or known pathogens, or to respond at the early stage,” it said.

“From December 2019 when information about the new coronavirus was suppressed, to multiple countries taking a ‘wait and see’ approach when Covid-19 cases were first reported … we’ve seen the damaging consequences of inaction at the onset.”

Source: Voice of America

November 21, 2022

Art and Friendship Displayed Online

International (Africa) Culture and Art Exchange Exhibition and Display Launched

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On November 17, “Explore the Passion in the World” International (Africa) Culture and Art Exchange Exhibition and Display, which is jointly hosted by Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and Jinhua Municipal People’s Government, and organized by Jinhua Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, was launched online in the websites of tourism authorities and mainstream media websites in Tanzania, Djibouti, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and other African countries, websites of a few Chinese cultural centers in Africa, English websites of Zhejiang China, InZhejiang and other major media platforms for overseas communication.

The activity was the debut of Wu Opera, the Jinhua traditional culture, in Africa. In the online way, it reveals the heritage and contemporary art features of Wu Opera, with a view to enhancing cultural and tourism exchanges and cooperation between Zhejiang and Africa, and promoting mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples.

Themed on “Explore the Passion in the World”, the activity means both Africa and China have a passion for art and beautiful life. The four parts, namely, “Percussion between Heaven and Earth”, “Sing for the World”, “Depict All Lives”, and “Dance for Life”, through live scenes, present the charm of traditional Wu Opera and African dances in all aspects.

Both Zhejiang Province and Africa have rich resources, diverse cultures, warm and inclusive people. Although the current epidemic has obstructed mutual exchanges, culture and art are the universal language in the world. Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Jinhua Municipal People’s Government, and Jinhua Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, by holding the online exhibition and display, share the beauty of Zhejiang’s cultural elements and artistic creations. It is hoped that after the epidemic is over, African people can come to Zhejiang Province to experience the wonderful culture, tourism and art.

Link of “Explore the Passion in the World” Exhibition and Display

http://www.ezhejiang.gov.cn/cultureandartexchange.html

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