Skills for a Digital Age Jun 22, 2020 3 min 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.
Skills for a Digital Age Jun 11, 2020 5 min 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.
Skills for a Digital Age May 5, 2020 5 min ‘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.
Skills for a Digital Age May 5, 2020 3 min Online marketplaces can help close Africa's skills gap The 'skills gap' in Africa represents a threat to the continent's digitization.
Skills for a Digital Age Apr 1, 2020 4 min 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.
Skills for a Digital Age Mar 30, 2020 4 min 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.
Skills for a Digital Age Jan 13, 2020 4 min 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 in...
Skills for a Digital Age Jan 13, 2020 2 min 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: I...
Skills for a Digital Age Jan 8, 2020 3 min 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 incre...
