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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? ” Speaking about gaps, let’s look closer at the skills gap.

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FinTech Accelerating Digital Transformation of Banking in Africa

The Startup Magazine

FinTech players are increasingly becoming an important part of the fabric of Africa’s financial services ecosystem and the leading banks on the continent are now more urgently seeking to harness technology innovations, collaborate with FinTech start‐ups, and create a platform to scale much faster – to make digital financial services pay.

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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

While the country itself is small compared to other Western European big leagues, Tallinn has a HeatMap Trust Score of 93%, and in recent years government intervention and financial support have made it one of the most prominent places in the Baltic region for startups and startup accelerator programs.

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Extended Requests for Startups 2025 list

VC Cafe

Autonomous Logistics Solutions: Focus on specific use cases for robotrucks and drones, addressing technical, regulatory, and partnership challenges, in regions like the US and Africa. Enterprise Process Automation Regulated industries like banking, insurance, and government still rely heavily on manual processes.

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Interview with Chris Garland of Botswana

The Startup Magazine

as a young man and completed my education in South Africa, where I worked for a time after graduating. Over time, I developed connections not only there but across southern Africa, and in my travels it became clear that Botswana was the “place to be” in the region. What originally attracted you to Botswana? I left the U.K.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society were grappling with. and the U.K.

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TECHNOLOGY AND THE AFRICAN GIRL. THE JOURNEY SO FAR…

Transformify

No doubt Africa is fully embracing this digital revolution. Large government donors, NGOs, and the private sector believe girls could play a big role in resolving poverty and making development gains through ICT. We need technology for Africa’s development. The article was contributed by Ebute Catherine.Q

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