Malta2030

CiNext – Technology – a silver lining of the Covid era

by Isabelle Micallef Bonello The Covid-19 shock accelerated the adoption of technology across business sectors. The need to reach customers online necessitated company-wide adoption of new automated technology-enabled solutions. The…

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CiNext – Digital Transformation The future is now!

by Silvan Mifsud Digital transformation. The mother of all buzzwords. However, as Simeon Preston once said, “The biggest part of digital transformation is changing the way to think.” You mention…

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CiNext – Digital answers to non-digital questions

by Jesmond Saliba Companies today are born digital. The digitisation of processes not only opens up exciting new business opportunities but makes entrepreneurship itself more widely accessible and more democratic.…

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CiNext – Sustainability in practice

by Jesmond Saliba Every event now is a global event, as 2020 has made amply clear: from the Wirecard bust to the Libyan conflict, from the Black Lives Matter movement…

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CiNext- People, planet and profit sustainability today

by Claire Bonello The original definition of sustainable development was coined at the first Rio Earth Summit in 1992. In essence it was a focus on “meeting the needs of…

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The nexus between business, policy & society

Social wellbeing cannot be reduced to GDP; quality of life, ethical standards, safety systems, and personal achievements are not accounted for by the size of an economy. And in reflection…

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Malta2030 – A long-term initiative to remodel Malta’s economy into a social enterprise by 2030

Social wellbeing cannot be reduced to GDP; quality of life, ethical standards, safety systems, and personal achievements are not accounted for by the size of an economy. And in reflection…

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Creating a shared value ethos – towards 2030

by CiConsulta The Independence of Malta from the British Government had triggered a socio-economic development in a small-island state with very limited natural resources. The hard-working ethic of its citizens,…

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Calling for Change

By Lawrence Zammit The post-coronavirus Maltese economy is not expected to be the same as the one we had in the pre-coronavirus times. The new normal will not be like…

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Relaunch Made in Malta

Malta is in the transitional period that began with the reopening of business on May 4 after five weeks of lockdown. Announcing the restart, the Prime Minister spoke about a…

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Before it all ends

At the announcement that the seven-week string of Covid-19 cases was broken, the whole nation breathed a sigh of relief. The elation was visible in faces of the Public Health…

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No news is bad news

by Jesmond Saliba We have, by now, assisted to more than fifty media briefings on the Covid-19 situation in Malta and technical terms like ‘PPE’, ‘contact tracing’ or ‘reproduction number’…

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The children of Covid-19

by Jesmond Saliba The post-millennial generation is only starting to make its way into the world, but it now finds everything in complete upheaval. Children and young people will have…

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Who loves the nation most?

by Jesmond Saliba The Covid-19 epidemic is stoking a fresh sense of nationalism around the world that has gone missing for several generations. The widespread return to identity symbolism and…

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Imagine Tomorrow even if it is hard

by Jesmond Saliba March 7, 2021 It is one year since Malta registered its first case of Covid-19. There was an eerie silence around the islands that Saturday morning and…

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Post-pandemic: Government policies championing environmental sustainability

by Claire Hollier Towards end March 2020, when it became blatantly evident that the COVID-19 pandemic will hit hard most economic sectors in Malta, the Prime Minister accompanied by the…

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How we rise

by Jesmond Saliba Here is a day that celebrates the power of hope – the belief that even the most difficult of hours eventually gives way to healing and restoration.…

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The public side of the private sector

by Jesmond Saliba It only took a few days of partial lockdown to demonstrate how deeply our separate lives are connected by our consumption patterns. From the fuel we put…

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No time for seesawing

A crisis situation demands clarity from the people at the top of the chain of command. It is important for communities and organisations alike to find a sense of assurance…

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Covid-19 may also heal

For all the devastation that the coronavirus is causing, in Malta it seems to have revitalised the Nationalist Party. In the past few weeks, the country witnessed a renewed sense…

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Defining essential business

The restriction of businesses is a painful but necessary measure as the pandemic response strategy enters a critical period. In the middle of the Covid-19 crisis, authorities must walk a…

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Welcome to the world, Malta

It was a cold, dreary January afternoon in which Jesmond and Matthew first met in Valletta some two years ago. Both were incredibly passionate about the news, but more than…

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Suffering in Silence: Loneliness in Maltese Society

by Jamie Bonnici Research Support Officer, faculty for Social Wellbeing When the research team at the Faculty for Social Wellbeing, with whom I work began delving into research about loneliness,…

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The biggest Covid-19 victim

Let me declare my personal interest first. I've been working in the communications field since 1993. It all happened by accident. Since then, I've been absorbed by the sector and…

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Whatever it takes

“Whatever it takes” were the famous words pronounced by the former President of the European Central Bank in July 2012 to express his intention to support the euro, which at…

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Women are shaping history

This is coronavirus month, but it is also Women’s History Month. In March the world celebrates the contributions of women to society’s defining moments. Much of the awareness campaign this…

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Coronavirus – A crisis made for leaders

There are crises and there is the coronavirus crisis. The difference with this crisis, for leaders, is that everything else – not just their companies or industries – hit a…

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Coronavirus: Let it not stop us!

by Prof. Andrew Azzopardi Dean, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta The term resilience was originally an engineering term referring to the ability of a material or object…

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The spread of innovation

By Jesmond Saliba If necessity is the mother of invention, crisis is the mother of innovation. As we abandon the system that supports our social, commercial and personal interactions, the…

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Conscious spending – sustaining the local economy and beyond

By Claire Hollier – Public Policy Consultant One basic economic law, that of supply and demand, stipulates that these variables pull against each other until they meet to establish a…

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Redefining the economic model in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic

By Claire Hollier - Public Policy Consultant Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, demands and needs are changing fast, so fast that recalibrating to the previous norm, is outdated – its past:…

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A cure in core values

It is rare to find a company that does not profess a set of core values these days. Visit any corporate website and if it misses a section outlining its…

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Faith, hope and charity

Many political leaders around the world have declared their countries ‘at war’ with the coronavirus. The power of that the message may not resonate with the same effect in countries…

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Act before it is too late

Nobody with a job will lose a cent, cried Emmanuel Macron earlier this week. A bombastic, presumptuous assertion – perhaps. After all, jobs are lost even during the best of…

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CoVid19 – Malta – The distance bringing us closer

There are times when the picture of a society comes out blurry, when we struggle to identify the factors and the values that bind a people together. This is not…

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Now is the time to help each other… Corporate ID Group’s A4L supporting Malta Together initiative

Several individuals have contacted the Corporate ID Group to provide support to those in at this unprecedented time in living history. We believe in synergies and as such apart from…

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The face of business

In less than a week we have seen businesses, small and large, mobilise to adjust to the Covid-19 emergency. Some companies have shifted operations away from their corporate bases to…

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We’re in it together (Societal Well Being – UOM – CI)

The Faculty for Social Wellbeing has embarked on a new initiative, in collaboration with the Corporate ID Group's Corporate Dispatch, of publishing our first ever Faculty Research Magazine, in the Societas.Expert…

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Homelessness (Social Wellbeing UOM)

by Ann Marie Cutajar, Research Officer, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Introduction Defining ‘homelessness’ and the ‘homeless person’ might not be the most straightforward task. The definition of homelessness varies according to the…

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Loneliness – A Modern Epidemic (Social Wellbeing UOM) – Dr Natalie Kenely

by Dr. Natalie Kenely, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Introduction Most of us know it, are acquainted with it. At some point…

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Housing in Malta: The Cultural Goals VS. Institutionalised Means Conundrum (Social Wellbeing UOM)

by Dr. Maria Brown, Visiting Senior Lecturer, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Introduction The current housing situation in Malta needs to be contextualised in a mainstreamed culture where home ownership is…

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On Mental Health and Homelessness (Social Wellbeing UOM)

by Dr. Paulann Grech, Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences Introduction It has often been described as the island of ‘sun and blue skies’. So it is, with our…

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Community People in general are social ‘animals’ so they tend to congregate in groups, communities (Social Wellbeing UOM)

by Dr. JosAnn Cutajar, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Definition of Community A community consists of a group of individuals or families that share certain…

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