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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. A tourism-oriented country in the past, now Tunisia focuses on education, skills development, and technology. Still, the unemployment rate is 14.1%

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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

The group is about 22 people; managing directors, partners and COO’s of major investments firms in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, and Tunisia. If you would like to be a speaker or simply attend any of the programs below, at no cost, contact Katherine St. More details. Onge, Katherine.St.Onge(@)aspeninst.org.

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Victoria: Investing In Morocco’s Future

YoungUpstarts

Casablanca is also one of the largest financial centres in North Africa, as Morocco is a key participant in the Maghreb agreement that facilitates trade with its neighbours: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania and Tunisia. Area C, consisting of low-cost housing and spacious boulevards.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

Or maybe you’re developing second screen viewing applications like GetGlue or building a YouTube studio to deliver low-cost content. Or maybe you’re trying to dramatically change the way TV is consumed, like Boxee or TV advertising works on the Internet, like Hulu. I would like to say it again. That includes me.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. But Senator Barack Obama understood that you could use the Web to lower the cost of building a political brand, create a sense of connection and engagement, and dispense with the command and control method of governing to allow people to self-organize to do the work.”.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas?

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21st Century War Propaganda: How Emerging Tech Can Help Temper the Digital War Machine

thebarefootvc

Greater and instant connectivity, but at a cost. As that narrative spread on the Internet with harrowing images coming from the site, thousands of protestors mobilized from Tunisia to Jordan, with Arab leaders canceling a summit with President Biden within hours. The Internet has always been a double-edged sword.

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