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

Transformify

Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. Technology is changing how Nigerians live and do business, quite often in a remarkable way. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. million people live in poverty.

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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. Monday, January 14 th : Technology Investing – 3-4:30 PM, NYU Wagner at 295 Lafayette Street (Puck Building ). More details.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Whatever their eventual path and outcomes – I would argue that their impact on Iran, Tunisia & Egypt – and frankly on the way that we as a society communicate now – has rendered them one of the most important technologies of the past decade. That includes me. Nobody knows that. 7 years ago there was no Facebook.

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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.&#.

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

Unlike its normal ‘relocation’ of acquired companies to Palo Alto, Facebook plans to maintain Snaptu’s development office in Israel, which suggests that Facbeook is planning to start a development center in Israel (following the footsteps of many other large technology companies).

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. It is a must have if you’re building a technology product these days. Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. It is the town hall. It is “ Speakers’ Corner.”

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

thebarefootvc

I believe we are at an important inflection point for how technology is used to create a better, more peaceful world. Well, we have more technology available and more available data , than ever before. Here are a few ways we can use technology to counteract some of these issues. Does this mean we are all doomed? Not at all.

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