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

Transformify

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. A tourism-oriented country in the past, now Tunisia focuses on education, skills development, and technology. Still, the unemployment rate is 14.1% million people live in poverty.

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Governments or Social Networks?

Venture Chronicles

He hailed the role of the Internet in helping protestors organise recent Arab uprisings such as the revolutions in Tunisia and but insisted it must be underpinned by “values&# and “rules.&#. currency). I don’t have an answer, I am simply asking the question.

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

Both Sides of the Table

If you look at Hulu and said, “the networks will never enable a strong competitor to broadcast TV you’d need to put your head in the sand. Yet I’d argue that each has achieved basecamp. Neither is sure to reach the top but both have helped to redraw the landscape about how the future of how the television industry will work.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. Not so on Twitter.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

As you become a large, open network for referral traffic your long-term strategic value goes up. As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. I just want to point out that longer-term value is often harder to perceive when a product is still going through its growth stage. So we value things like &# referral traffic&# much less.

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Walk Like an Egyptian

Growthink Blog

And while the concept of Tunisia and Egypt being ‘Twitter” revolutions is over-stated, it is true that easy media connectivity has greatly accelerated organized action on long-held social and political discontents.

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