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The Role of the Built Environment in Fostering Creativity in Africa
In this article, Russel Southwood contrasts the innovation in tech hubs around Africa with the decayed state of the built environment in which they are located highlighting how traffic is the defining...
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The true true size of Africa
Historical map projections have generally underestimated the size of Africa. This map from the Economist shows just how geographically big the continent is compared with other parts of the...
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Accenture Grants VSO US$3.5 Million to Equip People Across Africa with Job...
Accenture Grants VSO US$3.5 Million to Equip People Across Africa with Job and Entrepreneurial Skills http://on.mktw.net/1rRjxQHEmerging World's insight:What's interesting about this is how this is the...
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Mahindra - Business and society in the 21st century - beyond CSR.pdf
In this article from NHRD Network Journal (January 2012-Volume 5, Issue 1) Anand Mahindra shares his perspective on a neworganisational prototype – the purpose driven organisation driven by the...
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Can business take sustainability cues from the emerging markets?
Businesses from the emerging economies of Asia, Africa and Latin America are bringing new ways of working that could make current growth patterns more sustainable. amandabowman's insight:Interesting...
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Emerging Consumers: Meet Your Next 4 Billion Customers - Credit Suisse
By 2030, emerging markets will generate half of the world's consumer spending, twice today's share. Why, where and what are they buying? Here's a clue....#1 is a smartphone!This is Credit Suisse's...
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EY's 5 Priorities for Action in Africa
This simple graphic captures the action that EY is recommending is taken if the continent is to achieve what the company sees an exciting economic potential. Embedded within its African 2030 -...
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Syngenta's Partnerships for Good Growth - Improving Crop Efficiency
"We all know that, globally, our population is growing. To put it into perspective, we are adding over 200,000 people to our planet every day", writes Aimee Christian, Ph.D, Head of Corporate Affairs...
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Empowering Female Leaders
In 2005 Kenyan scholar Dr Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg started Akili Dada, a ‘leadership incubator’ offering high-achieving girls from underprivileged backgrounds scholarships to attend universities in...
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10 African tech start-ups to look out for
Africa is bursting with potential, especially when it comes to the tech start-up scene. A great number of companies have entered the African tech scene recently; however, 10 of these start-ups have...
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Why Tech Giants are Investing in Africa
The middle class in sub-Saharan Africa is expanding rapidly. With the seemingly unstoppable growth of the mobile phone, greater access to the internet, and an increase in access to education, change is...
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If You Want to Change the World
The number of people now living on $2 a day or less is greater than the world’s total population in 1950, when the global fight against poverty began. Only business can marshal the resources (human and...
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Making All Voices Count's South to South Lab
The South to South Lab is a co-creation space of Making All Voices Count which will explore & strengthen interaction between citizens & government.The Lab is aimed at capacity development for...
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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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