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

Transformify

A tourism-oriented country in the past, now Tunisia focuses on education, skills development, and technology. Providing youth with capital and opportunities is at the center of the Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative. Still, the unemployment rate is 14.1% 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. In addition, as part of the program, I’ll be making my first public presentation of our research study on VC portfolio operations value creation. More details.

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Victoria: Investing In Morocco’s Future

YoungUpstarts

Casablanca is also one of the largest financial centres in North Africa, as Morocco is a key participant in the Maghreb agreement that facilitates trade with its neighbours: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania and Tunisia.

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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.

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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

One of the differentiators of Snaptu, is that the company chose the feature-phone market as its core audience.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. We want a media system where you don’t have one powerful leader who controls the media and you also don’t want a system where you have one powerful media who controls the power. Social Media helps change that.

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