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

Transformify

Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. Technology is changing how Nigerians live and do business, quite often in a remarkable way. MySQL, PHP, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Testing, SQL, Web Hosting, AngularJS.

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The Gender Issue Part II

thebarefootvc

It is great to see that a conversation is finally evolving on the importance of gender diversity in the technology and venture capital sectors. On my trip to Rwanda last year I wrote a blog post on why I thought diversity in general was important. Studies have found that teams with both women and men are more profitable and innovative.

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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

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company. Hosting by Breaker. You're pulling data from public sources. I'm Eric Ries.