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

Transformify

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. It is not a surprise that the unemployment rate is 5.20%. million people live in poverty.

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Governments or Social Networks?

Venture Chronicles

He hailed the role of the Internet in helping protestors organise recent Arab uprisings such as the revolutions in Tunisia and but insisted it must be underpinned by “values&# and “rules.&#. currency). I don’t have an answer, I am simply asking the question.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

As you become a large, open network for referral traffic your long-term strategic value goes up. As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. used radio to change the way he governed, J.F.K. I just want to point out that longer-term value is often harder to perceive when a product is still going through its growth stage.

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