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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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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? All participants have received bachelor’s degree or higher.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

32 students were scattered across the globe and given a seemingly impossible assignment- they had 10 weeks to understand and then solve a real Dept of Defense problem – by interviewing 100 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, et al while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products – all while never leaving their room.

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SXSW Startups: Knowbella

Austin Startup

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We already have the scientific collaboration Knowbella Platform at Minimal Viable Product (MVP).

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. Thanks to Chris Wain, Africa Travel ! #4- I chose not to be as specific as to call it Bear in Mind Productions because I do so much more than just produce videos. Photo Credit: Chris Wain.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them. Support U.S.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. That’s the mission driving products like Hemafuse , one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020. It is currently sold in Africa through Kenya’s largest medical distributor. We need to build on the success of Hemafuse to introduce new product lines.