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

Transformify

At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation. It is not surprising that the countries with low unemployment rates have adopted programs encouraging continuous education, industry diversification, and skills development.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account. In the U.S.,

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

We started out serving charter schools, very quickly expanded our program to be able to be relevant for public district schools. Even up until this year, probably three quarters of our business was in schools and then the remaining part of the work that we did was in afterschool programs, preschools.

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

thebarefootvc

In Kenya, M-Pesa processed more transactions domestically than Western Union did globally, and “ provided mobile banking facilities to more than 70 per cent of the country’s adult population” , most of whom never had banking services before. What’s Next in 2012….

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 13: Liz Powers and Rocio Perez-Ochoa

Steve Blank

Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , which finances and distributes household goods that can improve families’ quality of life in rural Kenya. Rocio Perez-Ochoa. Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Swipely is focused on payment marketing, namely unifying loyalty programs and payments for main street merchants. M-Pesa created by mobile carrier Safaricom in Kenya is the best known example of this. Like anyone else, they are looking to own the customer data and offer smart loyalty programs. FAQ A: What about Square?

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. My program isn’t for a specific purpose, so saying that its only for designing logos would be wrong. Kenya Dream Epitomizes The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy. |. Invaluable when finding good keywords.

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