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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. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. million people live in poverty.

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5 Questions for a CEO: Brett Jacobsen, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School

Jeff Hilimire

As a preschool through grade 12 community, students and staff members act and iterate through a set of common norms: start with questions not answers, fail up, share the well, assume the best, and have fun. Where do you think the biggest opportunity is for innovation/technology to impact education going forward?

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

The agriculture technology sector, or agtech, in Africa is booming and its entrepreneurs think very long term and very big. He knew that the future of farming in Africa depended on technology, but he also knew that there was no point in starting an agtech business before he had the skills he needed. But why is this?

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My Water Pilgrimage:

Austin Startup

What spending 10 days in a remote village in Nepal has taught me about the role of technology in water sustainability and independence The Origin Story At an early age, my parents instilled in us a sense of empathy for the less fortunate and taught us to be mindful custodians of the world and its precious natural resources.

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16 Entrepreneurs Reveal What Entrepreneurship Means to Them

Hearpreneur

Soul Legacy Therapy is all about what are you wanting to be remembered for and how can you contribute to the community as a whole. That was what Steve Jobs realized about technology, i.e. that it wasn’t going to go away and if you he could build computers that were simple, reliable and beautiful that he and Apple would own the world.