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Pagatech was founded in early 2009 with a vision to enable a cashless society and bank the unbanked in Africa. Our first product offering, Paga, is a direct to consumer mobile …
In a piece on a noticeably strengthening trend in entrepreneurship. Hash profiles two notable trailblazers:
-Karanja Macharia who is the founder and CEO of Mobile Planet, a mobile company in Kenya that provides third …
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“In Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, the author made the case that success comes most often as a combination of environment, timing, opportunity and most importantly, after the requisite 10,000 hours of hard …
A half-century after much of Africa threw offf its colonial bonds, the continent swells with millions of youth. How leaders channel that potential will determine its future.
Like most Africans nowadays, I was not …
Paul English recently announced an ambitious start-up called JoinAfrica who’s mission is to do to lack of access what Bill Gates is trying to do to malaria. Eradicate it.
“JoinAfrica aims to bring a …
From Co-Design sneaker company isYou:
After a local talent call in Burkina Faso, Butterfly Works selected Wilfried de Paul (artist), François Ouédraogo (photographer) and Ramata Soré (writer) as the very first !SYOU talents… Amongst …
COMPETITION “10 IDEAS FOR TOMORROW’S AFRICA”
(DEADLINE: 30 APRIL 2010)
Within the framework of the 50th anniversary of African independence, the Social and Human Sciences Sector of UNESCO (SHS) is launching a …
One bold idea. That’s all it takes.
Unorthodox thinking is essential to overcoming the most persistent challenges in global health. Vaccines were first developed over 200 years ago because revolutionary thinkers took an entirely new approach …
A few weeks back one of our Fellows, Oliver Haas, asked me an interesting question. “Would a Mobile App store work in Africa?” He just wanted my perspective, he had is own ideas on what …
United Nations Development Programme (New York)
In April 2008, Ethiopia’s first commodity exchange was established in a country where only a third of the agricultural produce reached the market.
The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) was created to …
