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We write about platforms, workers and skills.

Exploring how digital platforms are helping to fill skills gaps for African youth

We're focused on building a stronger evidence base for the impact on platform workers' livelihoods & the business case for platforms.

Could logistic companies be the biggest winners of Africa’s COVID-19 e-commerce race?

If e-commerce companies make strategic shifts now, they could weather the pandemic.

‘Platform-Led Upskilling’ in Africa: Can Digital Platforms Help Close the Continent’s Skills Gap?

Platforms offer potentially positive impacts beyond income generation, such as skills development.

Online marketplaces can help close Africa's skills gap

The 'skills gap' in Africa represents a threat to the continent's digitization.

Technology and training can bring safe roads and better jobs to Africa

Many platforms including motorbike ride-hailing companies of Lagos are investing in training entrepreneurs and workers using their sites.

1600+ ways to teach “skills in the digital age”

As automation and digitization transform economies and usher in a new ‘future of work’, closing the skills gap is critical.

Three Companies Helping Ease the Burden of Training for Platforms

When it comes to training, the majority of African platforms we spoke to are going it alone and both designing and delivering training...

Training at Sky.Garden: co-created, scalable, and replicable

Launched in May 2017 into the burgeoning Kenyan e-commerce market, Sky.Garden’s differentiator is the bottom-up design of its platform:...

Facebook: helping fill digital skills gaps in Africa

While Facebook’s original purpose was that of a social network, connecting people digitally with their friends and families, it has...