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The AU-EU Innovation Agenda kick started with it’s first series of workshops discussing key elements to make our joint agenda work. This time the focus was on Intellectual Property as an enabling mechanism to boost innovation. #AUEU #ItsHappening

🌐 Navigating Digital Landscapes: Myanmar and Sri Lanka Exchange 🌐 Join us on March 16th, Saturday, for an enlightening panel discussion led by Digizens Alliance, as we delve into the digital landscape, bridging knowledge between Myanmar and Sri Lanka. This event promises to be a melting pot of ideas, experiences, and solutions, tailored for the digital realm. Date: March 16, 2024 (Saturday) Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Myanmar Standard Time) Location: Zoom Meeting Language: English Key Discussion Topics: 🔹Combating Misinformation & Hate Speech: Strategies to identify and counteract fake news, ensuring a reliable digital environment, and promoting digital peace. 🔹The Essence of Digital Citizenship: Unpacking the importance of being an informed, engaged, and responsible digital citizen in today's interconnected world. 🔹Navigating Digital Advocacy Challenges: Exploring the hurdles faced by digital advocates and discussing practical solutions to overcome them. 📌This panel is an excellent opportunity for professionals from diverse sectors to understand the dynamics of digital engagement between Myanmar and Sri Lanka, learn from shared experiences, and contribute to the broader conversation on digital citizenship and integrity. Reserve your spot for an engaging evening of discussion and networking. Let's collaborate to foster a more informed and responsible digital community. 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 https://lnkd.in/gFzjwXe9 #misinformation #disinformation #hatespeech #digitalcitizenship #digitaladvocacy #digizensalliance

🌐 Navigating Digital Landscapes: Myanmar and Sri Lanka Exchange 🌐 Join us on March 16th, Saturday, for an enlightening panel discussion led by Digizens Alliance, as we delve into the digital landscape, bridging knowledge between Myanmar and Sri Lanka. This event promises to be a melting pot of ideas, experiences, and solutions, tailored for the digital realm. Date: March 16, 2024 (Saturday) Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Myanmar Standard Time) Location: Zoom Meeting Language: English Key Discussion Topics: 🔹Combating Misinformation & Hate Speech: Strategies to identify and counteract fake news, ensuring a reliable digital environment, and promoting digital peace. 🔹The Essence of Digital Citizenship: Unpacking the importance of being an informed, engaged, and responsible digital citizen in today's interconnected world. 🔹Navigating Digital Advocacy Challenges: Exploring the hurdles faced by digital advocates and discussing practical solutions to overcome them. 📌This panel is an excellent opportunity for professionals from diverse sectors to understand the dynamics of digital engagement between Myanmar and Sri Lanka, learn from shared experiences, and contribute to the broader conversation on digital citizenship and integrity. Reserve your spot for an engaging evening of discussion and networking. Let's collaborate to foster a more informed and responsible digital community. 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 https://lnkd.in/gFzjwXe9 *Follow us for More Updates* https://lnkd.in/g9uNgJwJ Omar Rajarathnam

African leaders, executives, tech and financial innovators, creative institutions, policymakers, and government leaders have been urged to connect Africa and set global social and economic goals to foster greater inclusion and equality. This was highlighted during the Africa Soft Power Summit, themed “Africa Now: Connecting Africa—Shaping the Global Social and Economic Priorities of Our Time”, that commenced on May 29 and will go on till May 31 at the Kigali Serena Hotel. This summit is happening in Kigali for the third consecutive year. It was organised by the Africa Soft Power Project and partners NVH Studios, Africa Prosperity Network, and Sports Nigeria, to facilitate intellectual engagement and dialogue between key players in Africa https://lnkd.in/dkrEntue

There is a compelling narrative being written, reflecting the continent’s dynamism, diversity, and heritage. During his Q&A session earlier, CEO Senthil Gopinath of ICCA stressed the importance of staying business focused as a continent, saying “we have been a knowledge hub for many years, but now we need to make it more business focused.” By emphasising education, revenue generation, legacy building, and community engagement, MICE events in Africa will drive economic growth and foster social inclusion and environmental sustainability. #MeetingsAfrica2024 #MeetSouthAfrica

At the just concluded Africa Soft Power Summit in Kigali, African leaders, executives, and innovators were urged to connect Africa and set global social and economic goals to foster greater inclusion and equality. Here's what to know.

Well done to the entire CCI Global team for hosting a great #ElevateAfrica conference and for inaugurating their fantastic Tatu City offices! Kudos to Martin Roe Mark Chana Rishi Jatania and Lizelle Strydom Pottier for a great event. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and witness the momentum of Global Business Services in Africa, particularly to drive up youth job creation. A few takeaways from me - 📌 #GBS is capable of generating large scale jobs for youth, today. This is true of South Africa, Rwanda, Kenya, and many other markets in Africa. If we coordinate the ecosystem we can accelerate and amplify this job growth. Increasing Africa's share by even <1% this implies 500k decent, steady-wage-earning jobs. 📌 There's so much to be said of #AI (watch this space). But the threat of this disruption notwithstanding - GBS jobs are still growing, and offer more for prospects for decent wage jobs for young people than any other sector at the moment. And we can intentionally engineer these jobs to be both adaptive to new technologies while being inclusive + enhancing of current work. My go-to-quote by my favourite economist David Autor: "The unique opportunity that AI offers humanity is ...to extend the relevance, reach and value of human expertise for a larger set of workers. Recognizing this potential, we should ask not what AI will do to us, but what we want it to do for us. " 📌 Building #BrandAfrica for GBS is the hard work of hundreds of people! Industry analysts like David Rumble, Jon Yarlett Loren Moss Andrew Wrobel Mark Angus Jonathan Beardsley Elvis Melia Rolana Rashwan Steve Weston William Carson and countless others - armed with information, evidence, and a megaphone! Help dismantle myths about Africa and to actively advocate on the continent's behalf. And, as there's no proof better than actual evidence on the ground - CCI Global TTEC Tek Experts Ross Moody Gary Bennett and countless others have built credible, large-scale, and impactful businesses off this promise. The systems shapers in the industry Reshni Singh Andy Searle Charlotte Umutoni Karera Evan Jones Tim Gengnagel make alchemy happen by connecting dots, creating an enabling environment, and supporting business and government alike while emphasizing inclusion. And importantly, the thousands of young people, whose hard work makes brand-building easy--because they deliver. Job creation on this continent is hard work. But the GBS sector affords not just promise and potential but credible pathways towards inclusive growth for all.

It was a great honour and privilege for me, Christian Kingombe, to have been invited by the organizers to cover the 2024 Africa Impact Summit and to taking the time to attend this year's milestone event in Nairobi as a Impact Entrepreneur #correspondent. This year's convening was an incredible success, bringing together a diverse group of over 350 public and #privatesector participants over an exciting 3 days of #dealmaking, #networking and #knowledgeexchange on #impactinvesting in #Africa. In this Impact Entrepreneur interview I speak to Kate Njoroge. Marketing, Social and Impact Measurement Research Head of 60 Decibels Kenya Office In addition to her role as Kenya Head of Country, her Deputy Director of Client Services role has a focus on ensuring high-quality deliverables and team performance, alongside managing commercial systems for optimal service productivity. 60 Decibels is a global, tech-enabled #impactmeasurement company that brings speed and #scalability to #socialimpactmeasurement and #customerinsights. They provide genuine #benchmarks of #impactperformance, enabling organizations to understand #impact relative to #peers and set #performance targets. They have a #network of 1200+ #researchers in 80+ countries, and have worked with more than 1000 of the world’s leading #impactinvestors, companies, #foundations, #corporations, #NGOs, and #publicsector organizations. The Krutham Africa Impact Investment #Awards, sponsored by FirstRand, recognise success in the rapidly growing #impactinvesting industry. They celebrate outstanding #achievements and #contributions that drive positive social and environmental change while creating #value for investors in Africa. 60 Decibels won the Judges Award at the Africa Impact Summit! 

WHAT IS IYBA-SEED?  IYBA-SEED is a European country multi-partnership programme. Its overall objective is to contribute to the creation of decent jobs for women and young people and resilient economies, by strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems and improving access to business development services for very early and early stage entrepreneurs and businesses run by young people and/or women.   IYBA-SEED works in partnership with 5 countries: Benin, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and Togo, focusing on 4 areas of intervention:  🪢1 / Capacity Development and Networks >Strengthening and connecting entrepreneurship ecosystems    🤝 2/Business Environment  >Contributing to conducive rules, regulations and policies    🧠3/Entrepreneurial Culture >Promoting entrepreneurial culture    💡4/Ecosystem Mapping and Knowledge Sharing > Compile and disseminate knowledge, lessons learned, and best practices. #YoungBusinessInAfrica #Womenentrepreneurship #earlystagebusiness #GlobalGateway #TeamEurope #AfricaEU #TEIIYBA Cvijeta Jekić Alya Trabelsi Guillaume Greenhill Caroline Guidemann Nelson Ajala Antje Uhlig Capucine Gonnord Aissatou KEITA Aida SECK Carl Pierre Lucie BEAURAIN Michaela Kukuckova Carmen HODEDJI MASSEME-KOUVODOU Komla Gagnon Grégoire GAILLY Nduta Ndirangu, MBA Alexandre HOUEDJOKLOUNON NIKOLAOS ARCHONTIS Zuzana Miscikova Thomas Jaeschke Habiba Addi Fanny Benedetti IYBA-SEED is a programme funded by Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) European Union European Commission L'Union Européenne (UE) Gouvernement Slovak Agency for International Development Cooperation #SlovakAid and implemented by Expertise France SNV Enabel Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH

💡 Thought leadership is key to our work and efforts towards locally-led development. Check out this post from USAID PLR Local Evaluation and Evidence Support Effort and learn more about LINC's participation in the #AfricaEvidenceSummit.