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

Transformify

Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Game Development, Git, Google Maps API, HTML, HTML5, Internet Security, Javascript, jQuery / Prototype, Magento, Mobile App Testing. million and unemployment rate of just 3.4%, Rwanda is close to the top of the list. What are the most common skills in each category? With a population of 11.4

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

Use a mobile phone to transfer money? And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? Including Rwanda, which now has over 60% female representation in its Parliament – instrumental in healing the country from its horrific 1994 genocide.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

Use a mobile phone to transfer money? And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? Including Rwanda, which now has over 60% female representation in its Parliament – instrumental in healing the country from its horrific 1994 genocide.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

Use a mobile phone to transfer money? And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? Including Rwanda, which now has over 60% female representation in its Parliament – instrumental in healing the country from its horrific 1994 genocide.

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Africa Online: Check out “The Shift”

David Cohen

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. In the first segment, Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa are featured: African entrepreneurship has really been moving forward for some time now. It’s great stuff.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Our winner in Rwanda Zilencio Creativo is a Kickstarter clone; When asked why the founders built a clone they told us they were unable to put a project on Kickstarter as the legalities state it’s for USA users only. Africa ahead in mobile. Startups are up to Silicon Valley standards. Governments supportive of technology.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.