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Intro -- Digital Human: The fourth revolution of humanity includes everyone -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- THE REVOLUTIONS OF HUMANITY: DIGITAL HUMANS -- THE FIRST AGE: THE CREATION OF SHARED BELIEFS -- THE SECOND AGE: THE INVENTION OF MONEY -- THE THIRD AGE: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION -- THE FOURTH AGE: THE NETWORK AGE -- THE FIFTH AGE: THE FUTURE -- THE EVOLUTION OF THE DIGITAL AGE -- THE BIRTH OF COMPUTING AND DEVELOPMENTOF THE WEB -- WEB 1.0: THE NETWORK BEGINS -- WEB 2.0: THE SOCIAL NETWORK BEGINS -- WEB 3.0: AN INTERNET OF MARKETS -- The Business Model of an Open Bank -- WEB 4.0: THE 2020S AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS -- WEB 5.0: WELCOME TO SAMANTHA -- THE RISE OF PLATFORMS AND MARKETPLACES -- BUILDING THE NEW FINANCIAL MARKETPLACE -- YOUR CFO IS AN ALGORITHM -- THE BANKING BAZAAR AND THE BIZARRE BANKER -- BUILD OR BUY OR BUILD AND DIE? -- HOW DOES A FINANCIAL CURATOR MAKE MONEY? -- THE FUTURE BUSINESS MODEL IS CLEAR -- THE BURNING PLATFORM -- WHAT A LOAD OF COBOLX -- LEGACY PEOPLE IS WHY WE USE LEGACY SYSTEMS -- DO WE REALLY NEED TO RIP UP THE ROADS? -- RENEWING CORE SYSTEMS IS LIKE RENOVATING THE SUBWAYS -- CORE SYSTEMS SHOULD HAVE BUILT-IN OBSOLESCENCE -- DO BANKS NEED A CIO? -- THE DEVELOPER-DRIVEN BANK -- THE FUTURE CIO IS NOT A CIO -- THE RISE OF THE ROBOTS -- WHEN WILL WE PASS THE TURING TEST? -- MACHINES DRIVEN BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -- WE ARE THE ROBOTS -- YOU CAN NEVER AUTOMATE HUMANITY -- ALTHOUGH WE NEED FEWER HUMANS IN THE PROCESS -- BUILDING THE SEMANTIC WORLD -- THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY -- WORK OF THE FUTURE -- AS MACHINES TAKE OVER, WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO PEOPLE? -- MOST OF US WILL END UP IN SPACE -- THE RISE OF A NEW FINANCIAL STRUCTURE (FINTECH) -- THE FINTECH WAVE -- RegTech -- InsurTech -- WealthTech -- Roboadvice -- Lending -- SME Finance -- Financial Inclusion -- Blockchain Distributed Ledgers.

Global issues -- India and China's impact on global banking -- The road from Baghdad to Zurich -- Faith in banking -- When two tribes go to war -- The European Union unravels -- What goes around comes around -- Place your bets -- Retail bank matters -- Strained relationships -- The banks that like to say no -- Edupyerryr syndrome -- Call centre of the future -- The big issue : fraud and identity theft -- Channel technologies through 2015 -- Administration technologies through 2015 -- Payments matters -- The cashless, cardless society -- Corporates demand access -- Swift changes in wholesale payments -- The future of Europe's payments -- Investment bank matters -- Best execution with best intentions -- Make or break for Europe's equity markets -- To trade or not to trade? -- Risky options

This special issue presents papers based on contributions to the first international workshop on the "Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy" (TPDP) held in London, UK, 18 April 2015, as part of the European joint conference on Theory And Practice of Software (ETAPS). Differential privacy is a mathematically rigorous definition of the privacy protection provided by a data release mechanism: it offers a strong guaranteed bound on what can be learned about a user as a result of participating in a differentially private data analysis. Researchers in differential privacy come from several areas of computer science, including algorithms, programming languages, security, databases and machine learning, as well as from several areas of statistics and data analysis. The workshop was intended to be an occasion for researchers from these different research areas to discuss the recent developments in the theory and practice of differential privacy. The program of the workshop included 10 contributed talks, 1 invited speaker and 1 joint invited speaker with the workshop "Hot Issues in Security Principles and Trust" (HotSpot 2016). Participants at the workshop were invited to submit papers to this special issue. Six papers were accepted, most of which directly reflect talks presented at the workshop

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to describe the current practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in South Africa, its linkage to corporate social investment (CSI), the impact of new Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) legislation and the contribution that South African public relations practice can have on the development challenges facing the continent of Africa.


Design/methodology/approach
Empirical data and reports drawn from various industry and evaluative sources is interpreted in the context of key contemporary elements of practice. The last part of the article provides a theoretical discussion of the public relations role as a "change" agent in South Africa and for the continent of Africa as a whole.


Findings
The South African Government's prescriptive stance on transformation and BEE has thrust the reconsideration of CSR onto every corporate agenda in South Africa. With set targets and expenditure requirements, CSI has become a performance-driven pursuit among businesses seeking to improve their overall BEE scores. At the Pan-African level, a generic model of African public relations with a strong developmental focus is required for the education and training of public relations professionals.


Research limitations/implications
African public relations practice challenges accepted normative approaches in the conceptualisation of a sustainable new global model of the profession. More research will be needed to show how the African humanist approach might impact on the debate about the political, social and economic relevance of the profession in society and the reputation of the profession worldwide.


Originality/value
This study provides historical context for recent developments in public relations in South Africa, providing insights into the direction of the development of public relations practice in Africa.

Statistical agencies release microdata from social surveys as public-use files after applying statistical disclosure limitation (SDL) techniques. Disclosure risk is typically assessed in terms of identification risk, where it is supposed that small counts on cross-classified identifying key variables, i.e. a key, could be used to make an identification and confidential information may be learnt. In this paper we explore the application of definitions of privacy from the computer science literature to the same problem, with a focus on sampling and a form of perturbation which can be represented as misclassification. We consider two privacy definitions: differential privacy and probabilistic differential privacy. Chaudhuri and Mishra (2006) have shown that sampling does not guarantee differential privacy, but that, under certain conditions, it may ensure probabilistic differential privacy. We discuss these definitions and conditions in the context of survey microdata. We then extend this discussion to the case of perturbation. We show that differential privacy can be ensured if and only if the perturbation employs a misclassification matrix with no zero entries. We also show that probabilistic differential privacy is a viable alternative to differential privacy when there are zeros in the misclassification matrix. We discuss some common examples of SDL methods where in some cases zeros may be prevalent in the misclassification matrix.

Most of the scholarly body of knowledge of public relations built up over the last three decades has been undertaken in Western countries. Naturally, these conceptual frameworks have been suited to those areas of the world. The focal point of the calls for a shift to a new, inclusive global economic order is the growing influence of the developing economies of the world. This, in turn, has important implications for public relations and communication management in these regions and internationally. Academic researchers could embark on building an African body of knowledge of public relations and theories based on an African philosophy and worldview. Against this background, the debate around whether a generic model of public relations in and for Africa is possible has been the subject of considerable debate. It has also been argued that shared, common African philosophical approaches can be identified, and that these have an important role in communication throughout Africa. This article describes some of the influences that might shape African theory‐building and raises a number of questions along the way such as: Can there be an exclusively African public relations model? What is the balance between Western and African influences in the synthesis of a hybrid model? What has Africa to offer to Western theory? Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.