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

Transformify

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. million and unemployment rate of just 3.4%, Rwanda is close to the top of the list. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. Business / Finance.

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SXSW Startups: GoTech Puts Out Fires

Austin Startup

Based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as Rwanda, GoTech is resolved to develop, design and implement solutions to help communities respond to fire. It offers so much media coverage and exposure that will boost us. GoTech is based in the DRC and Rwanda. We can’t say we are not excited about it.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? He wasn't a media star. So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. His name is Tomas Pueyo. He was not a famous author. You knew actually.