David presents a seminar on ``Africa an Emerging Market and Outsourcing''
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| David Nyaluke seminar on Africa 15/April/2020 |
The seminar covers broad themes:
- Understanding that Africa is a continent, comprised of 54 countries, with diverse languages and cultures, with colonial histories and affinities with former colonial powers.
- That independence movements and proxy conflict on the continent which held back economic development largely ceased during the 1990s. Since that time there has been a gradual shift from rural to urbanisation and industrialisation.
- African nations have young growing populations of talented people and an increasing desire for modern goods and services.
- Understanding the steps in value-added exports.
- Learning that Africa already has millionaire/billionaire entrepreneurs who are themselves investing back into their communities and promoting startups in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and others.
- Learning about the growing economy, demographics, educational attainment, and commercial opportunities in African countries.
- Finding out that African countries, relative late-comers to digital infrastructure, may benefit from first-mover and more recent technological solutions, by skipping wired and costly physical infrastructure, jumping ahead to wireless, decentralised, more advanced technologies for telecommunications and computing.
- 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rloG1sGBCKE "Father of M-Pesa Michael Joseph, former Safaricom CEO, talks to CNN's Richard Quest about the future of banking and how Kenya is positioned to lead once again."
- 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9_6G8J6VJg "TEDxVienna - Alexander Oswald - Why Kenyans do it better"
- 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQo4VoLyHe0 "Documentary showing how Safaricom's M-PESA Mobile Money Transfer service is changing lives in Kenya."
