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Scaling Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Developing Local Ecosystems
Across Africa, governments and development actors are investing in youth entrepreneurship, with funders and international NGOs increasingly partnering with local non-profits to develop better support ecosystems for young entrepreneurs. But as Grégory Valadié and Juan Carlos Thomas at TechnoServe explain, many of these local organizations face limitations in capacity, systems and tools. They explore four ways to maximize these partnerships’ impact by complementing their direct implementation work with systems-level solutions, and leveraging institutions that already reach young people at scale.
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- Education
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Deloitte Unveils AI Incubator to Tap Into India’s Tech Innovation and Talent
The AI incubator will leverage the in-depth sector knowledge and AI/ML expertise of its professionals.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Not Just Another Startup Accelerator in India: How the Financial Inclusion Lab is Shining a Light on Underserved Customers
India today has an accelerator for almost every domain, ranging from fintechs to healthcare. But as analysts at MSC point out, many of these accelerators face a common shortcoming: a lack of inclusivity. They discuss how the Financial Inclusion Lab accelerator avoids that issue, and how it boosts startups to strengthen the financial inclusion movement in India.
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- Finance, Technology
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Press Release: Villgro Kenya Awards $150K to 12 Startups Fighting COVID-19 in Africa
Following the call for local innovations to fight the novel coronavirus, there has been a wave of new inventions emerging from the East African ecosystem.
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- Press Release
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Four Stories of Financial Exclusion: How Identity Barriers are Blocking Financial Access for Refugees and Other Vulnerable Groups
Venezuela's emigration crisis has reached epic proportions. And according to Anjali Ramachandran at Storythings, among the millions who have fled the country, countless people lack financial access because they struggle to prove their identity. She highlights the stories of refugees and others whose lives could be improved by alternatives to traditional ID requirements.
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- Finance
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$2.5 Million Initiative to Support Clean Energy-Based Livelihood Solutions in Tamil Nadu
The Council on Energy, Environment and Water and Villgro Innovation Foundation will support at least five enterprises to undertake large-scale commercial deployments.
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- Energy
- Region
- South Asia
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Into Africa: Tech Leaders Weigh in on Jack Dorsey’s Planned Move to the Continent
One thing is clear: Africa’s 54 countries and 1.2 billion people represent one of the last blue oceans for global tech growth.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- incubators, startups
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Kenyan telco Safaricom’s Alpha incubator faces uncertain future
Safaricom’s Nairobi-based Alpha innovation incubator may have an uncertain future, according to sources - TechCrunch reports.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- incubators
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