GlaxoSmithKline, The pharmaceutical giant, has decided to open to public the design of 13,500 chemical compounds that could inhibit malaria, In order to foster collaboration among scientists and researchers interested on developing a drug that can control this disease. The malaria is a condition caused by parasites which are transmitted to the human blood through a mosquito bite. It is one of the world’s biggest health problems with more than 210 million cases annually. Most of these cases affect poor countries where people live with less than 1USD per day.
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We often talk about the digital divide as a way to express the existing gap between the connected world and the ones still left behind by internet connectivity. We also talk often about the Generational Divide, or the big behavioral, communication and values difference between young digital generations and older age groups.
But there is another gap happening today in Malaysia that is related to media. I called the Marketing confidence gap: basically, the huge difference between how much time Malaysians are spending on digital media like internet or mobile and the money advertisers are spending on those channels.
The time shift in Malaysia media consumption is not being reflected in advertising spending yet.
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