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Healthy Collaboration
Noncommunicable diseases are an enormous challenge to Africa's progress and collaboration between governments, business, civil society and the scientific community is needed to address this. To...
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Education the Keys to Power
A girl who makes it through both a relevant and quality primary and secondary education is:- less likely to experience violence or marry and have children whilst she is still a child,- more likely to...
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Creating Opportunity from Adversity
Navi Radjou has spent years studying "jugaad," also known as frugal innovation. Pioneered by entrepreneurs in emerging markets who figured out how to get spectacular value from limited resources, the...
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The Future of the Digital Economy
The panel discussion at this year's World Economic Forum Global meeting in Davos on the future of the digital economy brought together Eric Schmidt of Google and Satya Nadella of Microsoft amongst...
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The 19-Year-Old Winning the Clean Energy Game in Kenya
Tom Osborn is the founder of GreenChar in Kenya, a clean energy start-up that produces charcoal briquettes for cooking purposes that are both healthier to use and last longer. His coals are produced...
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The Growth Opportunity in Africa
Nigeria’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, explains why addressing the technology, agriculture, and infrastructure needs in parts of Africa, and in other emerging markets, is crucial to...
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Understanding Consumers in the “Many Africas”
In recent years much has been said and written about Africa’s emerging class of consumers, who are often described as inexhaustibly optimistic, highly brand conscious, Internet savvy, eager to spend,...
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Harnessing the Power of Shifting Global Flows
Emerging markets are swiftly closing the globalization gap with advanced economies, and emerging players are now sources of consumption and innovation as well as production. New regional hubs are...
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The Private Sector holds the key to addressing youth employability in Africa
A new study conducted by the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) in collaboration with the East African Business Council (EACB) showed university graduates in East Africa are ill-prepared...
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Too Many White People on My TV
This blog post from Mawuna Remarque Koutonin provides a personal perspective on a much wider social issue - the representation of diversity in mainstream media.Koutonin begins, "In 2007, I clashed with...
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McKinsey - Winning with Talent in Africa
Over the last decade, Africa has transformed into a prime business destination. Economic growth, strong foreign direct investment (FDI) and the increasing ease of doing business have raised the...
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WEF's Disrupting Unemployment Report: Business-led Solutions to the...
The World Economic Forum's Disrupting Unemployment report consolidates information on business-led partnerships for addressing skills gaps, fostering entrepreneurship and facilitating the talent...
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Samasource's microwork model can help bridge the talent gap.
Samasource's innovative Microwork model breaks down large digital projects into small tasks that anyone can complete. This means that people located in far flung places can, with a reasonable internet...
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Online recruitment - a new source of African innovation?
As internet penetration increases across Africa, and the continent's mobile boom continues, the recruitment sector is also using tech-based solutions. However, online jobs-listings and application...
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Is communication technology the key to unlocking Africa’s potential?
In this blog piece written by BT's Oliver Fortuin for the WEF agenda platform, the transformational role of communication technology is highlighted. Fortuin argues that,"through the increasing...
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Designing Programs that Work in Diverse Settings
Photo: TechnoServe. Rice farmers in Ghana.By Macani Toungara, Director of Program Development, TechnoServeRice farmers on the hot, dry plains of northern Ghana would seem to have little in common with...
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European Conference on Corporate Volunteering | Euro2015
IAVE and Credit Suisse, one of the world’s leading financial institutions, are jointly hosting “The European Conference on Corporate Volunteering,” August 31- September 1, 2015 in Zurich. All...
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Connecting Talent with Opportunity in the Digital Age
Labor markets around the world haven’t kept pace with rapid shifts in the global economy, and their inefficiencies have taken a heavy toll. Millions of people cannot find work, even as sectors from...
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South Africa's Johannesburg tops Africa millionaires list
The BBC reports that According to a new study by AfrAsia Bank and New World Wealth, there are close to 163,000 millionaires living in Africa, with a combined wealth of $670bn (£440bn).South Africa has...
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Why and how Pearson supports the Global Goals
Everyone, no matter where they were born and under what circumstances, deserves an equal shot at a healthy, safe and fulfilling life. With these ambitious new Global Goals, the world is setting out to...
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10 life skills that successful young professionals should have
Here are 10 useful tips for skills that young people should acquire and/or develop during their early careers. Shana Lebowitz reviewed several Quora threads on helpful skills and ways to spend time in...
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What a viral picture tells us about child poverty in Africa - BBC News
The photo known as "Sceptical Third World Child" has been copied countless times. It's an amusing image but with added 'funny captions' the images and have become a serious debate about cultural...
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Is Africa’s Boom Is Over?
"Africa was never going to get far without manufacturing", argues Rick Rowden in this article from Foreign Policy, "- and it can’t do so under today’s trade and investment treaties."Emerging World's...
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Addressing the 'Need to Feed' is a business opportunity for African agribusiness
Africa is the only continent which does not grow enough food to feed its own people. The founders of Oko are betting on the cultivation of cassava to provide food security, while reversing the effects...
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From Medical Doctor to Entrepreneur
It was 2012, and a young doctor, Dayo Olakulehin, sat in the Olikoye Ransome Kuti Children emergency ward in Lagos, trying to stay awake. He had been manually ventilating a five year old boy for over...
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Mobile Payments Race Spawns Entrepreneurs
The race to develop mobile payment systems across Africa is spawning a new generation of tech entrepreneurs, searching for innovative ways to reach their customers. From finance and farming to...
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9 surprising things you probably don’t know about Africa
Here are 9 facts about the continent that may come as a surprise.amandabowman's insight:As Africa is in the spotlight with the WEF on Africa in Kigali this week, some killer facts about the continent....
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A New Map for Business in Africa
Only a few years ago, Africa was being dubbed “the next Asia,” and multinationals watched with mounting interest as local economies boomed across the continent. Although a decline in global commodity...
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250,000 youth to benefit from employability & entrepreneurship skills through...
200,000 youth and 50,000 entrepreneurs are set to be supported by AfricaWorking, a new initiative announced today by a group of companies, including Barclays Africa, Emerging World, FranklinCovey,...
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Getting Africa Working
Releasing the huge potential for Africa in terms of social development and economic growth will ultimately come down to education and the employability of its young people and its future generations....
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