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

Transformify

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Game Development, Git, Google Maps API, HTML, HTML5, Internet Security, Javascript, jQuery / Prototype, Magento, Mobile App Testing.

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Africa Online: Check out “The Shift”

David Cohen

For entrepreneurs, this also presents an opportunity of epic proportions. In Rwanda, for example, where electricity is available to less than a quarter of the population, more than 60 percent of people now have access to mobile phones. And although only 8 percent of Rwandans are internet users, that number is growing rapidly.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. Although entrepreneurs need to practice their pitches (and English). Many startups are Silicon Valley clones. Startups are aiming for a global, not local market.