This morning I was sad to hear that Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, died at the age of 90.

Bishop Tutu was an extraordinary man. I had the fortune to meet him once and you felt precense in the room when he walked in. Still he was the most humble man.

Read more here: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/i-wont-shut-up-tutu-made-people-listen-2021-12-26/

It is time for family, friends, peache & thought. Reading books, watching films, drink & eat traditional food together. That time of the year.

A holiday to rest & reload batteries. To remember & think of those we lost. To think about the future.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been developed in connection with the negotiation of the UK-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement, in the context of contributing to a closer economic relationship between the United Kingdom and Singapore.

One of the area purposes of the MoU is ’enabling effective digitalisation in trade in a neutral and open fashion that allows electronic trade documents to be interoperable amongst applicable digital ecosystems; and activities to establish project(s) to evaluate and validate the benefits of sharing electronic transferable records such as electronic transferable Bills of Lading, in an interoperable manner’.

You can read more here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/memoranda-of-understanding-with-singapore-digital-trade-facilitation-digital-identity-and-cyber-security/memorandum-of-understanding-on-digital-trade-facilitation