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

Transformify

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Just like its neighbours, Ghana is a predominantly agricultural country dependant on the cocoa production. Microsoft and International Institute of Communication and Development contributed to the development of the platform.

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11 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

Climate change is a very real threat that we are all responsible for, that’s governments, businesses and people. 10- Retire and live abroad in Ghana. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to CarolynWilman, Idea Majesty ! #8- 8- Help 1,000 businesses begin to become green. Photo credit: Tim Brazier.

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NYC 3.0

thebarefootvc

Now that I’m back full time in NYC, I decided to run for the Board of NY Tech Meetup, a dynamic community of 20,000 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers and people interested in tech. Third, we want to make sure that our tech community is inclusive to all. So how has the NYC tech entrepreneurship sector evolved?

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[Interview] Nellie Mayshak, Founder Of Canaf Consulting Associates

YoungUpstarts

For the last 17 years, Nellie Mayshak has been traveling around the globe, undertaking one high profile initiative after another in an effort to help nations recover and reform rational systems of government and public service after extended periods of disruption, if not chaos.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So he said, "Okay, well you can look at all this human resources data for this mine in Ghana. So what would a randomized controlled trial for the impact of masks on community transmission look like? I was like, "I have no idea."