Tourism and business travel can only recover from the COVID-19 pandemic crisis by mitigating the risk of importing COVID-19 across borders. Solutions under consideration include introducing health passports for passengers and automated health controls on arrival. Anticipating the demand for innovative health security solutions, WCC has extended its HERMES Border Security solution to include a COVID-19 Health Dashboard.

The events triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic during the last year have led most of us to evaluate our lives, and in some cases, our careers. Many have done so by choice; others have needed to do so in order to survive. Stringent and unprecedented measures were required to contain the pandemic and avoid the collapse of public health systems. Whilst these containment measures differed, and countries have been impacted to varying degrees, the resulting global unemployment crisis is a problem to be solved together. Find out more in our blog.

In this second blog of our series on Global Security, we take a look at European security. Just as on the global stage, the main challenge is how to close information gaps between security and information systems used by diverse law enforcement agencies. The EU needs to achieve interoperability between law enforcement agencies and police forces on the national level while closing security gaps on the EU regional level.

In our blog, we take a look at the issues raised in a World Bank article on the impact of COVID 19 on employment in Latin American and Caribbean countries. Estimated job losses in the region currently total 47 million. WCC’s knowledge-driven Employment Solutions can play a key role in economic recovery in countries hit hard by the crisis.

Increasing globalization has led to profound implications for security. Technological advances have led to the development of information systems that help governments share information, keeping their borders and citizens secure. Interoperability between these systems is essential to their success. In this series of three Global Security blogs, we examine different types of identity data, standards, and technology that can contribute to optimum interoperability.

The eu-LISA 12th Industry Roundtable 2020 focused on challenges related to data quality and interoperability of EU IT systems in the context of the new information architecture used in internal security, police and judicial cooperation, borders, visa, asylum, and migration. During the Roundtable, eu-LISA short-listed companies – including WCC –  presented their recommended solutions. WCC’s focused on the use of biographical matching to meet interoperability challenges, presenting its EU-compliant solution: the ELISE ID Platform.

The Italian paradox: 2.5 Million Italians are unemployed, and yet, Italian companies are unable to fill over 200,000 vacancies. So, what is going on?

Investigative journalists Milena Gabanelli and Rita Querzè wrote a must-read article for Italy’s top newspaper. It’s a fascinating case study of one country’s struggle to manage the labor market in general, and respond to COVID-19 unemployment in particular.

In this blog, we provide the article’s main points in English and add a few thoughts of our own.