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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? Business / Finance. Fundraising, Management, project budgeting, budgeting.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. Nairobi is the undisputed startup hub of East Africa, and perhaps all of Africa. and we can’t do it by ourselves. What other goals does Pawame have for the event?

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Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker. He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This is John Jantsch.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain How They are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

2- Recruiting the unemployed from Africa. I work on meeting with people, especially those in vulnerable communities, to help educate them on this topic. I use my website and social media channels as platforms for sharing my contribution as a global citizen. Thanks to Jeremy Yamaguchi, Lawn Love ! #2- Photo Credit: Olu Ojo.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Team Protocol One – Ensuring JTAC to Pilot Communication. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. He runs H4X Labs.

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FinTech and Forex – A Match Made in Heaven

The Startup Magazine

However, traders in Asia and Africa are quickly coming from behind. Improvements brought by social media. Thanks to social media platforms , traders today can enjoy novel trading methods, too. We are talking about copy trading, a method that has appeared thanks to the rise of online communities. So, what is copy trading?