Seminar: Proudly Made in Africa (PMIA)

Guest lecture by Dr David Nyaluke - Proudly Made in Africa (PMIA) Fellow in Business and Development. David's seminar covers emerging business, entrepreneurship, social enterprise and digital transformation in Africa. The "Value Chain Exercise" role-play illustrates some of the challenges and opportunities making Africa attractive for business. He touches on the potential for IT and business process outsourcing in African countries.
Lesson plan

1. Key transformations making Africa attractive for Business, including technology development, use of mobile phone, M-pesa for mobile money transfers (search term).
2. Identify and elaborate on the major challenges and opportunities for outsourcing in Africa.
3. Role play the "Value Chain Exercise". 

The classroom discussion tapped into students' personal knowledge and experiences from visiting and working in African countries. The value-chain exercise exposes assumptions about the steps in a supply chain with producers from countries in Africa asking what is the value produced at each exchange and how might we reconfigure/redesign these systems?

The seminars took place at 10am Tuesday 24th April, N203, at the UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business and also at 6pm Tuesday 24th April N303, at the UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Interactive sessions were videoed.