Blogs
WCC introduces its HERMES COVID-19 Health Dashboard
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 true impact of the global unemployment crisis
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.
European Security: security in a nutshell – Part Two
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.
Post-pandemic employment in LAC countries: how to make a difference
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.