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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? Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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12 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

He is also the most engaged business leader on Facebook in Africa. This is the definition of disruption and Rossanna not only represents a legitimate challenge to the clothing industry and their business models, but she is redefining the way people look at, get rid of and buy second-hand clothing. 2- Jeff Bezos.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Labor in the 21st Century: Cryptoeconomics, Communities and Global Markets

thebarefootvc

More recently over the past few days, projects such as Loot, the N Project and Bloot emerged that distributed building blocks on the blockchain for people to create their own games and game economies. The Philippines and SE Asia have been the largest markets to date for Yield Games.

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Nonprofit CEO Providing PPEs For Essential Workers

Hearpreneur

Companies all over the world are stepping up to the plate and pivoting from their normal business model towards one that emphasizes assistance and relief for COVID-19. VisionSpring is no different. Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 billion people worldwide who need them. .

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Nonprofit CEO Providing PPEs For Essential Workers

Hearpreneur

Companies all over the world are stepping up to the plate and pivoting from their normal business model towards one that emphasizes assistance and relief for COVID-19. VisionSpring is no different. Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 billion people worldwide who need them. .

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How Lean Startup Helped Serve Communities in Kenya

Startup Lessons Learned

First up in our speaker spotlight series is an edited transcript of our Q&A with Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , a non-profit working to distribute beneficial goods to rural communities in Kenya. Fix the distribution bottleneck in rural Kenya. “My The inspiration for Bidhaa Sasa? Why do they even buy from us?”

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