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

Transformify

It is not surprising that the countries with low unemployment rates have adopted programs encouraging continuous education, industry diversification, and skills development. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. All participants have received bachelor’s degree or higher.

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Live now: The founder of The Muse answers your entrepreneurship questions via video. Get involved!

The Next Web

Before founding The Muse, Kathryn worked on vaccine introduction in Rwanda and Malawi with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and previously at the management consultancy McKinsey & Company. You can follow her on Twitter, where she is @KMin.

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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. Everything you share is then added to your profile, which serves as a virtual reflection of the things you love.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

When I was in high school, a classmate and I started a peer mentoring program for our middle school which has grown and flourished. Yes I was gifted with talents but so are EACH of us, including the millions, billions of others who were just unlucky to be born in different circumstances.

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Here’s to You, Women in Business

Up and Running

And there certainly have been wins: Rwanda, a country so recently torn apart by war and genocide, is now stable and comprised of a parliament in which 63.8% ” Scholarships or mentorship programs are an excellent way to show your support for up and coming female entrepreneurs and invest in a more equal future.

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5 Takeaways from the 2012 Skoll World Forum | Stanford Social Innovation Review

Campus Entrepreneurship

These entrepreneurs (mostly nonprofits) have flipped the paradigm; they see social change more as a business strategy than as a charity program. Ned describes his organization’s work as creating new “water economies” in emerging markets like Rwanda and Honduras, and has leveraged the private sector to catalyze his market development efforts.

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The Gender Issue Part II

thebarefootvc

On my trip to Rwanda last year I wrote a blog post on why I thought diversity in general was important. My twitter stream and email inbox has been full of links to the NY Times article published yesterday — Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley.