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Bethany Hou
The Jobtech Alliance

Bethany Hou is a Venture Building Associate at the Jobtech Alliance. Originally from New Jersey, Bethany attended university at Georgetown in D.C., earning a Bachelor’s of Business Administration in Finance and graduating magna cum laude. She then spent three years at Bain Los Angeles and then New York, working on a variety of cases spanning media and entertainment, consumer packaged goods, industrials, and more. She is currently based in Nairobi. In her free time, she enjoys gardening, aerial fitness, and comedy (both others and her own).

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Thursday
August 17
2023

Michelle Hassan / Chris Maclay / Bethany Hou

The Jobtech Landscape in Africa: Assessing the Challenges and Opportunities in a Critical Sector

What really is the future of work in Africa? Michelle Hassan at BFA Global, and Chris Maclay and Bethany Hou at the Jobtech Alliance argue that it will be driven by the growing use of technology to enable, facilitate or improve people’s work opportunities, productivity and livelihoods — an emerging sector that’s collectively known as “jobtech.” They share new insights into the key players, business models, trends and opportunities across Africa's jobtech industry.

Categories
Technology

Tags
accelerators, digital inclusion, edtech, employment, MSMEs, research, skill development, supply chains

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The Jobtech Landscape in Africa: Assessing the Challenges and Opportunities in a Critical Sector

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The Jobtech Landscape in Africa: Assessing the Challenges and Opportunities in a Critical Sector

Bethany Hou
The Jobtech Alliance