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I am pleased to share that I've started a new role as President of Microsoft Africa, I feel truly honoured to be entrusted to lead Microsoft's agenda on our continent. I will be responsible for accelerating our customers' growth and enabling their success and competitiveness across Africa : https://lnkd.in/ey-eaMzX   I look forward to working with our passionate and talented teams to harness the continent's potential and empower everyone to do and achieve more with technology.    Microsoft is excited about Africa's potential. As organisations of all sizes and across every sector pivot and adapt to changing business and customer needs, Microsoft is perfectly positioned to enable them to accelerate their agility, flexibility and competitiveness while also cutting costs and driving efficiencies. I am incredibly excited about the role technology can play in transforming businesses, communities, and economies across the continent.   The world continues to embrace the power of digital technologies – and Africa has the potential to lead the journey toward the digital era. I am inspired and excited to play a meaningful and impactful role in making this a reality.    I want to thank our CVP and President for CEMA (Central Europe and Middle East Africa) Samer Abu-Ltaif, for his unwavering trust and support.    I also extend my warmest congratulations to Kalane Rampai, who will now take on the role of Managing Director for Microsoft South Africa.    I am excited about the journey ahead!    #msftadvocate #DigitalTransformation #MicrosoftCEMA #MicrosoftCloud 

Khader Adnan was a #PIJ leader who was died by hunger strike in Israeli prison. PIJ is a terrorist organisation in the #US, #UK and #Europe. He was not killed neither was he martyred but committed suicide in prison. He refused to eat or have medicines and died which is a clear sign of suicide. He became famous for his previous two hunger strikes in the past but this time he couldn’t get through and died. No one should be blamed but himself for committing suicide.

Proudly sharing my recently published article on Fratellowatches.com: A reader's review of my Lange 1. I purchased this beautiful specimen last year at Schaap en Citroen Juweliers and it is one of my most worn watches. This gave me the inspiration to write an honest review about the wearing experience. Since I have been taking watch pictures for a few months now, I have provided my own photos to accompany this article. Many thanks Robert-Jan Broer for posting the article. https://lnkd.in/g2FjTPzR

Durable and strong materials that are hard to recycle can be #reused

Ik moest vandaag aan de documentaire ‘Sound of Torture’ denken. Het gaat over Eritrese vluchtelingen die verkocht worden aan of ontvoerd worden door bedoeïenen in Sinai woestijn, Egypte. Verschrikkelijk. Het is uit 2013. Maar blijft relevant. Omdat personen die dit hebben ondergaan in Nederland zijn en proberen een nieuw leven op te bouwen. Wat een veerkracht!  Live calls from the torture camps in Sinai: since Europe closed its borders in 2006, thousands of Eritrean refugees flee their military dictator-ruled country north to Israel, their gate to the west, crossing the Sinai desert. There, many are kidnapped by Bedouins and taken to one of the hidden camps. The film intimately follows Meron Estefanos, an Eritrean journalist-activist living in Sweden since many years, running a popular online radio program, publishing the stories of these camps while recording their inmates' pleas for help. We are with Meron when she searches for Timinit, a girl of 20 years who arrived at the Israeli border but from there is never seen again. And we follow the story of a man who desperately tries to free his wife, who gives birth to their child in captivity. When Eritrea gained independence in 1993, it became a military dictatorship. Military service is obligatory for everyone; women are exempted only when pregnant. Any critic or opponent of the regime faces immediate arrest. Around 3,000 Eritreans flee their country every month, despite a "shoot-to-kill" policy on the borders. In the last decade, more than 300,000 Eritreans have fled their homeland, also to Europe. SOUND OF TORTURE gives a face to those nobody cares about, touching political, cultural, and geographical matters.

Dissapointment about the announcement that this summer holiday season international train travel to and from Netherlands will require seat reservation. But a temporary inconvenience caused by great success: the rapidly increasing popularity of international travelling by rail! Additional trainsets underway, in the meantime let's be happy about this trend and enjoy your trip! #FutureProofingMobility #Shift2Rail

Today is the final day of the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai. What a fantastic 3 days we have had with announcements, new partnerships and opportunities to showcase everything our beautiful emirate of Abu Dhabi has to offer! If you haven’t seen it - make sure to visit the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) stand today, to Experience Abu Dhabi! #experienceabudhabi #dct #atm

"When the going gets tough, Ortner gets going" There are downflow booths and then there are monster downflow booths. W: 6000 mm, H: 5000 mm under the laminator, D: 3650 mm. Installed at the facility of a top-10 pharma company for weighing down powder. #Ortner, #Downflow booth, #Pharma

Very proud to have contributed to this perspective article on Integrated Mangrove Aquaculture that was published in Frontiers of Forests and Global Change recently! Mangroves are critically important to (marine) biodiversity and should be protected, not converted. My first scientific article which I wrote as part of my previous job at WWF-Netherlands (Wereld Natuur Fonds). Madeline Craig, Dominic Andradi-Brown, Gabby Ahmadia, Susanna Wingard Brian and Robert Davis, PhD , as always, it was a pleasure working with you on this piece and the topic of IMA 🤗 https://lnkd.in/d2CQdGjY

🥳 I'm super proud of the team for releasing the Weaviate Cloud Service to public beta! 🤫 It was silently released in early April ;) 👉 It allows people to connect their SaaS and hybrid SaaS instances in one single UI. ☁️ Our customers can pick any region on Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) (soon) and Microsoft Azure (soon). 📦 OOTB module support for Cohere, OpenAI, and Hugging Face models. 🤯 Many thousands of signups! 💡 It's another step in giving users a complete serverless experience for both SaaS and hybrid SaaS! Starting from only $25 on a full usage-based pricing model. 🚀 Get started here: https://lnkd.in/gdvryHPt 🚢 Weaviate keeps on shipping!