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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

70% of Africa’s population is under the age of 25 shaping one of the largest untapped talent pools in the world. What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Fully remote distributed companies used to be a rarity. And second, you need to communicate that plan with all the stakeholders in your business. . Now, it’s the new normal.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. Nairobi is the undisputed startup hub of East Africa, and perhaps all of Africa. and we can’t do it by ourselves. In the U.S.,

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

Examples of the tasks performed by the Turk community include translation, transcription, image tagging and even searches for missing persons. Turk was among the first platforms to truly leverage the power of a distributed workforce and to demonstrate that providers around the world would happily participate in such a model.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. Nothing seems impossible anymore. What’s Next in 2012…. And Beyond….

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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12 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

He is also the most engaged business leader on Facebook in Africa. As a result, the elements of distribution and marketing are just as vital as the original concept. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Mogale Modisane, ToolsGaloreHQ ! #2- 2- Jeff Bezos. Photo Credit: John Li. That could be the case.