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Which are Africa's main millennials/citizens engagement spaces - 1 Nairobi leading ladies empowerment banking; first to linking to 5 billion elearning satellite- Ushahidi/Ihub world's
benchmark for open tech youth hubs and worldwide multi-win trade 2 Rwanda home of community health training networks linked into partners in health and youth celebrations of 2030now- how to make africa the safest continent for preventing plagues 3 Joburg home of partners in mandela extranet and the race to design 7th graders most massive jobs developing curricula
-gravitating such partners as maharishi, google africa, branson. oprah winfree, skoll ... 4 Mali expats how can satellites empower women and the UN and millennials- the Toure family's crusade orbits round their home nation mashing up every goodwill connection the UN and ITU can muster  | April 2015 Breaking News from Future of Economics- On the Road to Obama Entrepreneur summit Kenya July, I wanted to update you first on
how Africa's 5 billion person elearning satellite yazmi has focused testing in africa on what kenyas second lady rachel ruto
wants ---now she is not only table banking for 1 million poor women but in effect is their small business school mentor
too (see slides) and infrastructure developer -when I met her 2 weeks ago she demanded urgent research of clean water
service entrepreneurs If you'd like a quick demo of yazmi please say- making sure Kenya gets the most out of elearning
satellite has become an absolute priority after rachel ruto kindly gave 3 hours of her new york diary to this during the un
womens summit a fortnight ago
there is now quite a lot to discuss including women4empowerments
talk at un women conference rough video here . |
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AfricanIdol is a youth economics web co-edited in association with microeducationsummit and alumni of The Economist's Norman Macrae (first journalist of open learning net geneartion from 1972) chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc 301 881 1655 August Gamechanging Event Selection -Open
Learning Campus : MBAlumni Launch of Young African Society 1 August World Bank further ref Jim Kim 2030nowjimkim2transcripts.doc, 40 K next world bank youth summit - worldwide millennials 7 oct
2014 ....Replay launch of Young Africa Society: http://live.worldbank.org/african-youth-forum-2014 ... conference reports DEAR FRIENDS, The World Bank Group (WBG)-International Monteray Fund (IMF) Young
African Society (YAS) is excited to invite you to the 1st African Youth Forum 2014 on July 31st, 2014. This year's theme,
"Equipping and Inspiring the Next Generation for Productive Jobs" . Inspired by a report published by the World
Bank Group in January 2014, on Youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, the WBG-IMF YAS has decided to organize its first African
Youth Forum, to establish a platform where youth can actively participate in discussing, implementing and evaluating the development
agenda in Africa. Please feel free to contact us to discuss issues pertinent to Africa’s
development, at: wbimfyoungafricansociety@worldbank.org We look forward to welcoming you to the World Bank Group! Regards, Yvonne Catherine Kirabo and Elikia Kamga Nenkam | The continent must
move beyond commodities led growth to focus on human capital development internally. We believe that inclusive growth will
only be achieved by equipping young people with the skills needed for a vibrant economy. To empower Africa's young population
to move forward, topics such as education, entrepreneurship and employment, health and good governance must be addressed
and knowledge must be shared. | .The African Youth Forum 2014 will feature external and internal participants
discussing Youth as an critical component of the Africa development agenda and specifically addressing the thematic areas
as identified by the United Nations. Our goal is to equip every attendee with new tools to achieve a positive vision for Africa.
We invite you to start the process now by registering today and interacting with our online community... | .... |
Can Africa's communications revolutionaries lead youth economics'
collab celebrations @ The World Record Book of Job Creation ? 7
Wonderful Roles of Africa's Most
Human Communications Alumni Mandela Elders
-education core to Gandhian peaceful revolution beyond top-down professions Samara- Europe's leap out of dark ages by communications so I gave Africa a free satellite Ibrahim (and Barro) - Benchmark places & sectors responsible leaders by & for
future of Africans Julian Kyula - Nanocredit -design
most urgent telecom networks around those in most urgent local needs Toure ITU
- who in united nations and out of africa understand telcommunications for good Women4Empowerment - Naila's
stories 1 2 3 4
5
6
7 8
9 more at www.womenuni.com YP/Young Africa Society - 25-35 professionals most connected, educated world has ever
enjoyed- millennials' goals #2030now ...AFM1 Samara - Ethiopia & DC Unlike the $100 laptop as the first product launch of the MIT media lab, Noah Samara pioneered the early 1990s launch
of an African satellite with a continent-wide frequency
reserved for life critical information in parallel with 2 other worldspace satellites for Asia and America. He experimented with satellite radio which turned out to be unsustainable
as a life-changing information network for Africans
but a highly portable medium in USA. Nearly 20 years later his company yazmi.com is converging all resources on satellite empowered learning ( expected tablet price $50
for built in satellite use and access to all the
world's most job creating open eduAFM10 IHUB/Ushahidi
- Kenya AFM11 MIT Media Lab Africa AFM12
MIT D-lab Africa and Abdul Latif with Toyota AFM121 Paul Polak last mile multinationals Africa –eg green energy
and clean water distribAFM13
Ibrahim Foundation AFM14 Africa24tv TB1 Free University and Jobs Schools : Mandela's (and Gandhi's) legacy : Changing
schools in south afrca can create million extra jobs for youth by 2020; why wouldn't vnery nation with a future want to join
in changing schooling to be job creating? TB11 Open Learning Campus : From Africa to World Bank and everywhere
young professionals can reach AFM15
Young Africa Society –world bank YP milennials’ goals 2.1 -25-35 year old rofessionals as
most educated, connected group ever to save the human race's netxt generation AFM2 Jamii Bora –end
slums youth banking and partner labs : starts kenya's gifts to world ofmobile-empowered banking for all TB20 Primary financial literacy curriculum – eg Afaatoun out
of Orphanages from India AFM21 Bridges primary
schools TB21 Love of self- empowerment curriculum
– eg Maharishi (TB1) TB22 Coding curricula
from primary up AFM31 Kiva Africa AFM32
Acumen AFM33 BRAC African Girl Jobs-creating
banking AFM34 Eagri-Africa AFM35 African health millennials www –and PIH Rwanda, Free Nursing
College Africa AFM36 Mara Mentors Africa - 20 country peer to peer entrepreneur assistance AFM4 MPESA/Safari AFM5
Nanocredit Julian Kyula - Kenya AFM51 Women4Empowerment -
Africa, Asia, Hispanics, & AFM52 ITU transforantion by Toure family
- other best UN foundation changes from Turner family billion dollar communications reformation AFM6 USADBC - diaspora association benchmarking african food security value chains AFM61
–diaspora multi-country celebrations eg AfricaTip (AgeTip) AFM611 NEPAD AFM612 Makerfaireafrica |
| Learning Africa shares 2 questions with worldwide youth: Is a good news broadcaster possible? What makes a nation happy and free to spend a life in? Investing in Africa. August
2014 saw USA discussing this openly with African leaders. Example: this sequence from GE/Economist conference and webcast 4 august 09:30 - 10:00 am Powering
entrepreneurship: Innovative solutions to address energy povertyMatthew
Bishop, US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist. Mr. Ashish Thakkar, CEO & Founder, Mara Group Dr. Mo Ibrahim, Founder and chairman, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
09:55 - 10:00 am Economist Intelligence
Unit presentationJoseph Lake, Global economist, Economist Intelligence
Unit
10:00 - 10:30 am Building Africa’s infrastructure: Lighting up the road aheadMatthew
Bishop, US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist. K.Y. Amoako, Founder and President , African Center for Economic Transformation Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President, World
Bank IAAN | June 2014- DC's largest diaspora - Ethiopia facilaites - final rehearsal of 7 days in August - the week tha tSustainability of Africa took over from DC's Beltway
Lobbies | ..On August
5th 2014, Presidents of all African countries will converge
in Washington DC for President Obama’s African Leadership Summit. The International Association of African Non-Governmental
Organizations (IAAN) has been given the honor to host the Social Accountability Summit which will be held on August 7th-8th 2014 as a side event to the African Leadership Summit. The summit will
be held at the Washington Marriott, 1221 22nd Street,
NW. Washington DC. 20037. Please join us for this impactful event. Participants will include; African Presidents, Governors,
First Ladies, Private Sector, NGOs/CSOs, the Clergy and the Youths. The topics include:
9:30-11:30 AM Accountability
and Leadership – Invited Presidents will speak on the state of governance
in their various countries, what improvements have been made and what needs to be done in the future. Speakers: President Olusegun Obasanjo
- Former President of Nigeria - confirmed
President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya - Invited 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM TEA BREAK 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Transparency for Better Accountability – Subject matter experts
will speak on how to improve transparency in both private and public sectors. Speakers Dr. Deji Olaore
- Governance Specialist - World Bank Group - confirmed Susan Markhaw - USAID Senior Coordinator
for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment - confirmed H.E. Ambassador Charles Hubert-Commonwealth of Dominica - confirmed
Mr.
Obong Umanah Okon-Former Secretary of State, Akwa Ibom Nigeria - invited H.E. Ms. Angela Brown Burke-Mayor or Kingston Jamaica - confirmed
1:30 PM –
2:30 PM LUNCH BREAK 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Social Accountability and the Private
Sector – Executives will discuss issues on corporate social responsibility.
Specifically, how businesses address their moral responsibility to the society, particularly to the citizens of the area where
they operate. Speakers
Mr. Alhaji Aliko Dangote - Dangote Group - invited Mr. Lee Karuri - Business Leader, Enterpreneur & Chairman of Home
Afrika Kenya - confirmed
Mr. Robert Brunner - Vice President Arik Airlines - confirmed Ms. Candance Bond-CEO, ASEA
Inc. - confirmed
Dr. Titilola
Gonzalves - Enterprenur, CEO - confirmed 6.00 PM - 8:00 PM...... |
Ethiopia is DC's and MD's most vibrant millennial
african diaspora.USADBC.org invites all diaspora to share end to end value chain models pioneering Benefit Corp partnerships
in this regard; blessed coffee and rose value chain models out of Ethiopia are already world changers for huge cooperatives of small farmholders. Noah Samara, an Ethiopian MD-American launchedAfrica's first satellite and owns the continent-wide frequency for elearning see yazmi and elearning-africa.com.Associated millennial groups linked in eg AFRICATIP during DC's August 2014 celebrations of African millennials' goals. ETM 1nw 2ps 3no | South Africa (land of Mandela and inspiration of Gandhi's Satyagraha)leads world in redesigning
job creating schooling for 14 million children. Started 1999 , Taddy Blecher partners include Branson Mandela elders, Google
Africa, Maharishi Institutes.summary of maharishi uni.doc, 556 KB South Africans are now the first to enjoy such previously missing curricula from 3rd grade as: empowerment,
entrepreneurship, financial literacy, coding. Missing processes include teen apprenticeship, P2P learning, lifelong learning
for small business academies. Links with lead Gandhi educators inIndia offer breakthroughs in adult reading literacy George
Soros began his journey as probably world's first open billanthropist in South Africa 1978. Note his invitations to millennial professionals: open society, ineteconomics networks. Keynsians at The Economist coined demand for Entrepreneurial Revolution of pro-youth economics in 1968 survey ofSouth Africa's future. | Youth African Society at World Bank has resources and rational optimism to linkin all young professional networks
concerned with job creation Africa. These resources
include: World Summit on Youth Jobs (2nd annual Oct 2014) Support
of 1500 member African Society Open Learning Campus Jim Kim #2030now value chain maps and social movement World Bank-UN millennials jobs competition (launched by Kim and Bank Ki-moon Spring 2014 for
Spring 2015) |
jim kim #2030now transcripts- shared with 50000 class of how to change the world MOOC
microwiki on who's M who at WB next world bank millennials summit 7 october 2014 washington dc- next millennials solutions competition spring 2015 Keynsians & NMF's youthworldbanking project: 25-35 year old (female) professionals 1 are most educated, connected ever- let reesign economics and governance to invest in their milennial goals and to sack
economists who dont value jobs and livelihoods fully | Missing in DC 1 ? - Open Education and sustained investment in Green Energy and Nature's Capital Networks.
However leapfrog model of green energy for a billion off-grid has been discussed at world bank spring 2014- and reactivating
Wangari Mathaai's greenbelt movement womens knowledge networking could be timely http://www.usaid.gov/powerafrica oalternate routes 1 2 3 (Dlab 2014 wilmer) | Africa's Youth Creative Lab:  Next 3 Billion Jobsmarket Congratulations to Wolrd Bank 1 August 2014 from Norman Macrae Foundation for Youth Capitalism research in association with world record book of job creation chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk wash dc 301 881 1655 | Kenyans have led world in open tech youth wizardryUshahidi, IHUB, Mpesa,
Nanocredit, Jamii Bora banking for orphans and ending slums. Through first ladies of women4empowerment and MIT media labs
they have connected partnerships with the world's most resourced technologists and open tech wizards. Additionally Ibrahim
foundation prizes public leaders young african nations can trust most; Crowdfunding (eg Kiva) and Patient capital networks
(eg Acumen) strong links with Kenya | | Missing IN DC 2? - Movement to FreeNursing Colleges and telemedicine- However
personal conversation with Paul Farmer suggests Haiti's training hospital will be his test lab for this; PIH connections with Africa are renowned in redesigning helatcare for Rwanda and for the original value chain intervention with Big Pharma regarding HIV drug innovation.
IN USA, Arkansas was main state investment in community broadband testing of telemedicine
- see FCC | African Partnerships with Bangladeshi's original
microcredit-microeducation networks have many of the most scaled projects in africa regarding 1 girl apprenticeship networks,
2 ultra poor movements, 3 transferring crop science knowhow to include small producers. See eg BRAC and mastercardfoundation
- Uganda; BRAC and Gates Foundation Tanzania. BRAC is world's largest and most collaborative ngo
because Sir Fazle Abed regards its core as open job creating education- first WISE education laureate, 20th George Soros Open
Society Laureate. Sir Fazle is committed to helping MOOC and KhanAcademy type platforms | Women4Empowerment and Fashion4Development partnerships are inspired by African innovation networks: *Kenya's Nanocredit *ITU Geneva currently run by Mali technolgist Various other UN networks
particularly those impacted by billion dollar change catalyst of Ted Turner family Many first ladies across Africa &
mobile telecom owners Furthermore there are lead examples of
BlackAmerican superstars leading change in cost of media in freeing life-saving grassroots solutions networks. And Sino-African
basketball al stars for education link through Brookings and the HBUC funding agency Thurgood Marshall | 
Thanks to Naila Chowdhury 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |
Youth Creative Lab is an idea inspired by Dr Yunus and 10000 Youth Ambassadors starting from his 69th
birthday party in Dhaka in June 2009. Opposite
to the trillion dollars a year spent by ad agencies to hollow out local jobs replication, it provides space for youth to celebrate
1000 most exciting jobs concepts- many of which need to customse multi-win Private Public Mobile partnership models to scale.
NB identifying journalists and media experts passionate about jobs responsibility is opposite process to most PR lobbies and
much NGO fund-raising. Also SWOT the difference if the net generation succeeds in designing internet as smartest open education
media for sustaining millions of global villages and not an adjunct to the ways that tv advertising dumbed down and added
to poverty by exponentially increasing costs to middle men. While Dr Yunus has been trying to embed YCL in the last 3 Nobel
peace laureate summits (Warsaw 2013, Cape Town 2014, Atlanta 2015, a problem is that many of the regional elders no longer
have health to ensure knowhow survives them - note Mandela's passing, Gorbachev has was not well enough to lead his east Europe
conference. Nonetheless time has come for youth to map how peaceful societies through time exponentially generate strong economies
not ice versa. Yunus also invites youth to viralise impossible become possible postcards to the future- see typical design
case: free nursing college. 
welcome to informal attempts to map youthworldbanking the millennials goals and investments way ahead -provided economist see their number 1 role the way keynes did - ie creating future of nextgen jobs while ending poverty’s
broken historical and geopolitical systems wherever community is unsustainable
millennials world record job creators 10-way
cataloguing legend left- jim kim gamechanging milennials journey right and lower down
wb
live update
Youth Summit 2014_Concept Note (External).pdf, 327 KB
rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you find next update on world bank youth summit - date 7 october-
this update 9 july 2014 Open Learning Campus launched by
world bank aug 2014- missing curricula rehearsals 1 RISK summer 2014; climate spring2014 Urgent question from Bottom Billion: Can you help identify the greatest
Bottom-Up and youth professionals networks
ever mobilised -stories of 8 ABED "small beautiful, open planetwide scale absolutely essential"
...AFM1
Samara Unlike the $100 laptop as the first product launch of the MIT media lab, Noah Samara pioneered the
early 1990s launch of an African satellite with
a continent-wide frequency reserved for life critical information in parallel with 2 other worldspace satellites for Asia and America. He experimented with satellite radio which turned out
to be unsustainable as a life-changing information
network for Africans but a highly portable medium in USA. Nearly 20 years later his company yazmi.com is converging all resources on satellite empowered learning ( expected
tablet price $50 for built in satellite use and access to all the world's most job creating open eduAFM10 IHUB/Ushahidi AFM11 MIT Media Lab Africa AFM12 MIT D-lab and Abdul Latif with Toyota AFM121 Polak last mile multinationals africa –eg green energy and clean water distrib AFM13 Ibrahim Foundation AFM14 Africa24tv TB1 Free University and Jobs Schools TB11 Open Learning
Campus Africa AFM15 Young Africa Society –world
bank ypa milennials’ goals 2.1 AFM2 Jamii
Bora –end slums youth banking and partner labs TB20 Primary financial literacy curriculum – eg Afaatoun out of Orphanages AFM21 Bridges primary schools TB21 Love of self- empowerment curriculum – eg Maharishi (TB1) TB22 Coding curricula from primary up AFM31 Kiva Africa AFM32
Acumen AFM33 BRAC African Girl Jobs-creating
banking AFM34 Eagri-Africa AFM35 African health millennials www –and PIH Rwanda, Free Nursing
College Africa AFM4 MPESA/Safari AFM5 Nanocredit AFM6 USADBC - diaspora association benchmarking african food security value chains AFM61
–diaspora multi-country celebrations eg AfricaTip (AgeTip) AFM611 NEPAD AFM612 Makerfaireafrica AFAM 7 WONDERS AFAM1 on june 21 ethiopians (largest african diaspora around dc) are hosting a value chain development summit
aimed at benchmarking how little even obama usaid has moved towards designing value chains to sustain poorest african agriculture
producers -please say if you can come or would like to know the organiser AFAM2 these women4empowerment videos 1 2 3 linked by Naila the first lady to direct grameen phone and now living in our region show why its now time to
unite all superstars to change fashion industries and promote youth voices. Understanding whoch telcoms billionnaires really
want to give back by promoting new levels of leadership transparency can be critica- follow eg ibrahim foundation in valuing
national leaders and how friends of ibrahim have extended this to africa24tv's search for diferent sectir eladers africans
can trust most AFAM3 Re Brookings Yao Ming Chinese-African American exchanges: I would love to know eg what past commissioner of nba thinks of them - and whether hbu
youth see this as a defining opportunity to join in. Also on the theme of uniting millennial movements world bank Jim Kim
and UN ban ki-moon ended the spring series of millennials meetings with the invitation to any millennial to pitch before next
springs world bank summits- how are we going to converge hbu students participation in this once in a lifetime DC offer AFAM4
what these videos dont yet show (but naila can b. rief you on) is how extreme mobile innovations originated in kenya (such as nanocredit recipient of the IBM award of year) now offer best
in world opportunities to use mobile to end digital divides- already there is an issue in usa of who would do most good with
a million phone give away - I wonder whether your hbu student competition pitches would be different if that freedom was known
as a currently open- there's also a very exciting opportunity for anyone to start up savings and loans circles www.puddle.com that anna can tell you about -perhaps that would change the feasibility of that marvelous student pitch at atlanta last
year of how rural colleges could start up credit unions. Kenya remains the greatest youth women world trade innovation epicentre
; Jamii Bora, ILAB, Crowdmap, Mpesa, Nanocredit to name but 5 AFAM5 more generally the calendar
up to end 2015 seems to me to be the last deadline for all the potential possibilities for black youth top lead community
generation that 8 years of obama could have built on; vivienne's film of obama's mama as a world leading networker of women end poverty premieres end may in seattle AFAM6
The 16 year open education partnership out of south africa to find and free missing job creating curriculum of entrepreneurship
and empowerment led by Taddy Blecher and linking in such as Branson, Mandela Elders and Google starts a 6 weeks usa tour in late May AFAM7 I trust that atlanta november 2015 will serve to have a full and open inquest or celebration of this issue-ultimately its over to you to tell me if there is
any way I can mediate between your ways of networking through atlanta for the benefit of hbus as the others connected around
yunus, ted turner, luther kings, jimmy carter, the mayor etc |
AF-AM
Youth world summit series -a twin capitals movement with more valye for hosts and sponsors than the Olympics Coming Next Cape
Town October Nobel Youth Summit 2014; Atlanta Nobel Youth Summit November 2015 -previously one world summit s.africa 2013 (see
right) |
GGTWIT: mail isabella@unacknowledgedgiant.com if you too twitter good news on youth jobs creation: Videos 1 2 3 from W4E and F4D; help 20000 job creating youth celebrateAtlanta live and millions linkin- Best News of 2013 from our diaries of YunusAfrica.com: June 2013: African Development Bank and Yunus : the
AfDB along with Prof Yunus's organisation, Yunus Social Business, have launched the Holistic Social Business Movement in Africa
(HSBM) programme which includes pilot projects in Tunisia and Uganda. This programme will be implemented in two phases that
include awareness raising and capacity building programmes for the stakeholders in Social Business, and with the implementation
of social business incubation funds. In both these countries an incubation company named as Yunus Social Business Tunisia
(and Uganda) will be set up, and simultaneously a "Social Business Fund" will be established in each country. The
HSBM is funded by the Japan government and co-financed by the AfDB. In the second round, social business initiatives will
also be extended in Egypt, Tanzania, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Togo and Morocco. Mid Year 2014 Breaking News on AFAM 7 wonders -please tell chris.macrae@yaoo.co.uk
if you have any good news to linkin tpo the open education curriculum of Entrepreneurial Revolution (started by my father Norman Macrae to benefit the millennial
generation in 1972)
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Who are your African Idols in 2014? Taddy Blecher? Ingrid Munro? NIck Hughes? MO Ibrahim? .. One timely reason for asking: Cape Town 2014 is the last stop of the Nobel Youth Action Networks
before Atlanta 2015. 2014 is also 50th year since martin Luther King's Nobel and inauguration of Atlanta's Museum of Rights.
Does Mandela curriculum live on in every youth and can end -to-end African American Diaspora value exchange models help change
world by and for youth ? Colaboration
Entrepreneur Research coordinates : Linkedin 9500; Nobel Peace Laureates invite Atlanta 2015 Unites Agrican American Job Creating World of Youth - S. Aftica origin of 1 Entrepreneurial Revolution Surveys in The
Economist 1968; of Soros Philanthropy Cape Town 1978; Home of Mandela and 2nd Home of Gabdhi
blog
with norman macrae foundation- how many of youth's 10000 greatest job creators will come from Africa? celebrate good news africa at http://africa24tv.com - ask why bbc world service gave up being world's number 1 brand investigating youth and peoples futures the way africa24 now does for africans  | help us log most important summits ever hosted out of africa- eg bric meeting durban march 2013 will this
lauch a bric development bank and if so what will be africa's roes - guests include leaders of china and india 
| .The Economist Debate March 2013 The moderator's opening remarks Mar 12th 2013 | Oliver August Sub-Saharan Africa has made huge leaps in the last
decade. Malaria deaths in some of the worst-affected countries have declined by 30% and HIV infections by up to 74%. Life
expectancy across Africa has increased by about 10% and child mortality rates in most countries have been falling steeply.
A booming economy has made a big difference. Real income per person has increased by more than 30%, whereas in the previous
20 years it shrank by nearly 10%. Africa is the world's fastest-growing continent just now. Over the next decade its GDP is
expected to rise by an average of 6% a year, not least thanks to foreign direct investment, which has risen from $15 billion
in 2002 to $37 billion in 2006 and $46 billion in 2012. But Africa has seen booms before, only
to crash-land. Violence is still common in some parts of the continent. Corruption has not gone away and in some cases has
actually increased thanks to growing commodities revenues. Proper governance could take care of this but all too often it
is missing. Too much hype surrounds the rise of Africa. Boosters proclaim an "African century" and talk of "the
China of tomorrow" or "a new India". Sceptics retort that Africa has seen false dawns before. They fear that
foreign investors will exploit locals and that the continent will be "not lifted but looted". Over the next two weeks we'll be debating the question: "How real is the rise of Africa?" Proposing is
Wolfgang Fengler, the lead economist in the Nairobi office of the World Bank, its largest on the continent. Opposing is Rick
Rowden, a development consultant who has worked as an adviser for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
in Geneva and as a senior policy analyst for ActionAid, an NGO. During their debate they are likely
to touch on the role that industry will play in Africa over the coming years, how population growth is going to affect development
and what part new international partners like China, India and Brazil may be expected to take. The debate will focus on the
future as much as on the present. That Africa has changed in the last decade is hard to dispute, but how durable is this change? Employment and equality are likely to be the indicators that count most. For change in Africa to become permanent,
many more residents would have to earn a decent income and wealth could no longer creamed off by elites to the extent that
it is now. To find out how likely that is, let's turn to our experts.... |
africanidol.tv are youth making africa the most microentrepreneurial place on earth?  
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Experts Discuss the Region's Top Issues in 2013 |  | As 2012 draws to a close, African and global policymakers look to 2013 with
optimism and hope. Anne Kamau talks to experts from five leading think tanks in Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Nigeria and
Uganda, asking them what they see as the major challenges facing their respective countries in the year ahead and how those
issues will likely affect relations with the United States and the welfare of their citizens. Watch the interviews with global experts » |
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paradoxically i have nore idols inafrica than any other contient but less direct contacts
- how about you rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
Idols i have contact with taddy blecher the person inteconnecting mandela parthers and replication of free universities
out of south africa www.taddyblecher.com ingrid munro - withouth whose organsaition www.jamiibora.org The Eonomist would havent had the good bews mas 2012 story of kibera slum the most entrepreneurial place on earth http://www.economist.com/search/apachesolr_search/kibera Norman Macrae
Foundation www.NMfound.net www.microeducationsummit.com & www.considerbangladesh.com NMfound education and journalism projects since 2008; www.worldclassbrands.tv a NM found leadership valuation project since 1988 5801
Nicholson Lane Suite 404 N.Bethesda MD 20852Tel 301 881 1655 email chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk |  | other
main entrepreneurial revolution diaries since 1972 launch of ER and 1843 pro-youth capitalism at The Economist2013- 170th birthday of The Economist' 
| Yunus diary 2013 - selected incident reports 18 January Tuskegee University | 2013 year of MOOC 
| 1972 year that The Economist's pro-youth economics editor first sees experiments of youth sharing knowhow
on a digital network and launches Entreprenurial Revolution to help map, value, invest net generation's 3 billion new jobs | 1984
first future history (since 1972) and(to 2024) of valuing the net generation |
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There is no
reason why africa's peoples shouldnt be as healthily and wealthily productive as any other content - but much depends on ;
empowering youth see eg www.taddyblecher.com ; on searching out the highest trust and most productive leaders on the continent of every industry that can shape the
21st C sustainably Good news this doesn't need to be a lot of work and a mass media news channel is doing
it and welcomes any advice you have www.africa24tv.com
Help AfricanIdol.Tv add to its Nations League Tables of New Economics Heroes Kenya JamiiBora.org Ingrid
MunroUshahidi.com MPESA Greenbeltmovement.org | Ghana/Nigeria Lagraychem.com Cwlgroup.com Flyingdoctorsnigeria.com | Multi-Africa MakersfaireAfrica.com Brac.net Wholeplanetfoundation.orgMicroloanfoundation.org | S.Africa the-hub.net Taddy Blecker & Branson EntrepreneurUni Mandela & Ubuntu training |
latest
good news of african entreprenurial revolution at our crowdmap: - ethiopia how 50000 jobs created from roses;
- nigeria how the first flying doctor service in west africa has been built by a 25 year old lady
- do you have a an african
job creation idol - nominate at crowdmap or tell me chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk - networker of Norman Macrae Foundation project to connect 100 leaders of 2010s being youth's most productive decade GREAKING QUARTER - 2012.1 Melanie and everyone interested in linking accra in as major good news hub of africanidol - I am passionate about quickly studying the case study of CEIBs in Africa - chinese business schools have a different
learning model and Accra has become their experimental centre for this- try listening to the podast at http://econaud.prohost.mobi/21705/show/aeb336aa00eed1ffa665cae9310f0b9f&t=alormsm4btcrre987b5uulf0m6 it doesnt work in all brwosers do you have a contact in accra who would be interested in doing some intreviews
with cibs- I want to publish something in journal of new economics and have budget of $2000 if this can be a way
of seeing if CEIBs will partner your april summit then all the better chris macrae www.erworld.tv skype/instant chat chrismacraedc tel wash dc 1 301 881 1655 | extracts of e-dialogue: Africa Local Summit, Ghana... (localizing health, economy, +) Re: dear dr alexandria and
melanie Friday, 23 December, 2011 1:19From: Melanie St James Dear Dr. Graham, Please pardon my delayed response and THANK YOU for your visionary work promoting local
health solutions and openness to get involved in our efforts. While I am deeply fascinated and in deep solidarity
with you on your mission promoting African medicine, to capture our immediate opportunity to create change via the African
Local Summit in Ghana, to be held April 1-4, 2012 - Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),it is my pleasure to introduce
my esteemed colleague and Chair / local instigator of this timely initiative, Kofi Kankam. ( kofi@theglobalsummit.org) Perhaps after Christmas weekend, or after the new year, we can all meet on skype? We would be honored to
share what we have planned so far and have the benefit of your vision and wisdom as we continue. My skype contact name is:
melaniestjames Warmest wishes for a happy holiday season, Melanie St.James | | |
help us update our log of african idols Projects of Foundation Norman Macrae- The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant from our assocate weBLOGGERS help us update log of education idols Develop Consider Kenya Leaflet and celebrate
world's number 1 slum youth development model http://jamiibora.ning.com : continue with wish to see JB replications in 50 southern hemisphere countries made by Queen Sofia of Spain and
other leaders of www.microcreditsummit.org Currently here is the favourite concept for African Idol of world class brands network - rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv if you may have a better concept- compose
song that mandela and the white house like playing; ask mandela to host a dance competition to match celebrating ubuntu
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- encourage entrepreneurial revolution hubs to link to joy of economics pamphlets on consider bangladesh and consider kenya
|  | Thursday, February 12, 2015 DC, Rome and the joy of a few days in the diary of African
Idol Rachel RutoDear Natasa and Luis POP and MOBILE POP (Preferential Option Poor) Natasa Please could
you try phoning Naila's mobile usa . Luis if you have a mobile number please could you give it to Naila 1 RACHEL Ruto 2nd Lady Kenya - Africa's most active leading lady in Preferential
Option for POOR? There are a lot of gamechanging things going on around naila and her womenempowerment
networks- which (due to her experience as first female director of gramenphone) for 20 year now link the most edgy partners
in how to use mobile technology to live and learn with poorest women. I have explained at 2 hour meeting naila today how unique
you Natasa and Antonio are in connecting everything franciscan and truly social business around Italy and across trough Serbia
and Open Society across East Europe One exciting thing is that at last
week's kenya visit Naila demonstrated the 5 billion elearning satellite to Rachel and Rachel was so excited that she
has started to put up her own course content on it. A couple of years ago at skoll world championships moocyunus - YouTube proposed that youth should have access on elearning channels to the 50 people they most wanted to learn from to
scale social movements and race to end poverty. Rachel is the first vip on her continent to also be a top 50 world change
trainer to be doing Massive Open Online Collaboration on the world's largest teaching channel with outreach to 5 billion people.
Moreover Rachel knows what her women students need next - eg water learning is absolutely critical -how do we start
assembling pieces of that curricula? Rachel is a former
teacher and has evolved her own womens banking movement called Table Banking which she personally goes to the villages to
celebrate and train up women round. JOYWO is
a Kenyan registered non-governmental organization (NGO) formed to empower Kenyan women economically and enhance house-hold
food security Her curricula will become a benchmark of women empowerment and Preferential Options for Poorest link
together in Kenyan context. Since Kenya is also the world leader in nanocredit, few countries are more exciting to partner
in womens POP movements that have solutions that can be shared the sustainability transformation world over. I have to assume
Mrs ban-ki moon will want to meet Rachel next time Ruto is in new york since Ruto is already scaling te peoples movements
not just theorising at the great and the goods summits including UN sepytember billed as greatest poverty summit UN has ever
convened. She has asked Naila to be her knowledge ambassador someting I assume laura Turner will also want to linkin to (before Atlanta Nobel Summit in November) HOW CAN RACHEL RUTO
HELP SPREAD POP AROUND DC . Rachel has asked Naila to arrange visits for her to relevant DC networks
when Rachel is in DC in middle of March. Natasa I know you said Antonio
has already worked on Ruto connected projects while he managed the Italian investment fund in Kenya Luis we
think that one way to accelerate the club round DC of catholic youth and womens empowerment workers who practice POP (Franciscan
way) is if you can invite people you work with both in oas and at world bank to a customised session with Rachel. This can
be relevant to anyone in DC connecting the Pope's or Jim way across Americas (o Africa- you mentioned that the
head of global social value for jim kim is a kenyan) Secondly on Monday
16th Naila is over in Los Angeles to develop wat will be main issue of te SAtgo Summit inside te World Bank in August.
Tis will be perfent timing (about a mont before the Pope's history making speech at Congress) to ,link everyone in woprld
bank who most practoces yout and womens empowerment and the POP { values of Jim KIm and Pope Francis. Aditionially Natasa
Armine is Armenia so the same faith origins as you and Monica Yunus. Armine is a cnofidante of Rwanda's leader Kagama
and Rwanda is Partner in ealt's main country in Africa- someting Jim KIm did muc to build until e joined te world bank- and
educational epiecentre for te deep sorts of comunity elat trianing bneeded in every african country so ebola never spreads
agian. Armine is also on te boarrd of the ITU the one wing of the UN that as becopme a bencmark for extreme change.
Basically any first lady that gets ITU and does poorest vilage empowermenyt work is one that Naila's aims to make sure Mrs
Ban Ki-Moon links in and that the TRurner family celebrates as best impacts from teir billion dollar investment in making
UN more empowering to partner Any ideas on how temes of Atgo summit at worlkd
banmk in August can linkin all te tings we are most urgently trying to embed sould be urgently sared iwt Nails I write this particularly
to Natasa as she translates for Antinio. None of our Rome connections could have happened without Bernardo in Chile. Luis from Peru and Ana from Columbia have spent most of tis millennium linking in youht empowerrment networks across
Americas. I ave aked tem to study te OP boook of dialogues between Paul Farmer and Guiteriez They have some breaking news about a very special guiest will
be at their Panama youth summit in the second week of April but I would rather they tell that to you when they have made sure
that Youth get as much time with the guest cheers chris.macrae@yaoo.co.uk usa
mobile 240 316 8157 6:17 pm est
Saturday, August 23, 2014 Participants at the
World Export Development Forum (WEDF), which will be held in Kigali, Rwanda, will have the opportunity to hear expert views
from entrepreneurs, policymakers and representatives of trade support institutions on how both new technology and traditional
sectors can help promote growth.
http://www.rdb.rw/media-centre/world-export-development-forum-2014.html Rwanda 16-17
september Among
the confirmed speakers at the event is Ashish J. Thakkar, Founder of Mara Group, which has activities ranging from real estate
and tourism to financial services, information and communications technology, renewable energy and manufacturing. The company
operates in 18 African countries and has a foundation to support emerging African entrepreneurs.
Tapping online, mobile markets Experts working in emerging sectors, such as electronic commerce and mobile technology, will speak
about the potential for economic growth in these areas.
Among those with success stories to tell are Maurice Kagame, the Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of Pivot Access, a Rwandan company that helps people to pay their electricity bills online and through their
mobile phones. The company is now launching a new service that allows patrons to provide real-time feedback on service at
restaurants, hotels and transport companies. There is also Yves Eonnet, CEO of the mobile-payment provider Tagattitude, which
operates in more than 30 countries, and Josiah Mugambi, Executive Director of IHUB Kenya, a technology innovation community
for investors and technology companies.
Linda Kwamboka, co-founder of the software company M-Farm, is also scheduled to speak at WEDF.
M-Farm’s mission is to turn the subsistence-based model of farming to agribusiness by providing farmers with price information
via text messages and mobile web to allow them to make better-informed business decisions. 12:10 pm edt
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 Conference launching World Bank Young Africa Societyother
links bios of organisers list of speakers attachments IntroductionThe World Bank Group-IMF Young African
Society, with the support of the AFRVP, organized and hosted last week’s inaugural Africa Youth Forum which was held
at the World Bank on July 31, 2014. The Summit was attended by Jin Yong Cai, Vice president of The World Bank Group (WBG)
and CEO of IFC; Makhtar Diop, Vice president of Africa Region, WBG; representatives of EDS13 and EDS25, Senior Staff at the
World Bank Group (Claudia Maria Costin, Senior Director for Education, WBG; Robert Hunja, Director for Governance Practice,
WBG; Anabel Gonzalez, Senior Director for Trade and Competitiveness, WBG; and Vera Songwe, Country Director for Senegal, WBG);
Government officials such as his Excellency Mamadou Diarra, Minister of Youth and Civic Education of Mali; Mrs King-Akirele,
former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia; members of the State Department such as Ambassador Robert P. Jackson,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary For African Affairs; 70 YALI fellows (Young African Leaders Initiative); Mamadou Toure,
President of Africa 2.0; and representatives of the Youth from the Washington Metropolitan Area. Comments were received
live from online participants.Based on the rich and fruitful discussions
from the event, this memorandum seeks to: (i) memorialize and crystallize the most pertinent issues affecting African youth
today in the areas of entrepreneurship and employment, education, health, and good governance; and (ii) recommend possible
solutions and plans of action.For the purpose of this forum, we considered
youth to the age group ranging between 15 and 35 years old.(See attached file: YAS Recommendations general.pdf)Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship· Some data: According to a survey done by ILO in 2012 (see annexes for more details), young
people were asked why they could not find jobs; 28% of them said they looked but couldn't find anything and 29% said they
don't feel like they are prepared/ have the work experience for the job they want. 8 in 10 jobs are in the informal sector.· Governments
across Africa need to recognize the fact that recent research findings (World Development Report) show that in the next 15
years, the global economy needs to create 600 million new jobs to keep up with the world’s population growth. The failure
to deal with the challenge of chronic unemployment and intense poverty can be the source of social and political instability. · Strengthening
domestic markets is key for job creation and to the development of a middle class in Africa. The private sector should be
given the enabling environment to thrive and grow locally so as to take its place as the driver of employment creation and
allow the youth in our countries to feel that their future is in Africa. · There is a need to re-conceptualize the approach
to entrepreneurship in Africa. Emphasis needs to be placed on innovation and the deployment of today’s resources to
creating businesses capable of solving developmental challenges in Africa. · A balanced approach to youth employment requires
the development of the formal and informal sector with emphasis on boasting the skill sets of the informal sector through
the training and empowerment of youths that are involved in this sector. The promotion of entrepreneurship should form the
agenda for the dialogue on youth employment and empowerment with all efforts geared towards creating cohesion between policy
and practice. Entrepreneurship should not be seen as the solution to all problems in the region but any strategy should incorporate
it. The challenge remains the adequacy between academic training and the market’s demands. · Local governments should
create more accessible platforms to boost information flow and data and discussions between youth and government officials,
development partners and the private sector. · So far, social entrepreneurship is one of the most effective concept, where youths come together
to address social issues or advocate for their peers (inmate empowerment, orphans, etc.). Youths’ dynamism could help
gear the government into developing this area of focus. · Technology and innovation should be highly considered as important
tools for market assessment and screening. Various examples in Asia demonstrate the ingenuity of young people in various fields.
Using technology in the private sector can advance the development of African countries, by providing needed services in innovative
ways while making profit (please refer to the annexes on youth employment from ILO for more details). Education· There is a need for stakeholders (donors, governments,
civil society organizations and the private sectors) to promote investment in education, in order to prevent the perpetuation
of poverty. Investment in education here, involves not just formal education but also informal education with emphasis on
vocational education, basing parameters of success on results and outcomes.· In advancing the issue of educational empowerment,
there is the need for a strategic approach to promote the acquisition of skills that equip African youths for effective leadership.
The education of African youths must be approached from a holistic rather a narrow perspective of just academics. · There
should be a conscious effort to create a smooth transition from school to work. Efforts need to be focused on how to gear
education towards empowering the youths with the relevant knowledge that they can apply in solving societal needs and challenges. · Despite
budgetary constraints, there should be a conscious effort on the part of government to invest wisely in education based on
the peculiar needs and challenges of the community. Developmental expectations must be matched or anchored on adequate preparation
and planning based on accurate and cogent data. Health· Access to adequate health services and facilities continues to be a major problem in Africa.
High rates of HIV/AIDS, exposure to environmental hazards, and stigma of mental health need particular attention.· Proactive
and preventative approaches are needed towards disease, as opposed to emergency reactive approaches. For example, in
the case of epidemic outbreaks such as Ebola. · Mental health is an issue that should be taken more seriously by governments and it is also
part of the issue of motivation in Africa. Social determinants of mental health are same of other issues: adequate housing,
good quality of education, good wages (young people), and equitable access to health care. Mental health should be part of
our educational programs. · Governments need to re-prioritize health, as it is an investment into human capital. Infrastructure
investment alone, without a healthy, educated workforce and populace, will not yield the desired development and modernity
African countries are striving for. Good Governance· Youth engagement is crucial to good governance, as the youth will be the future leaders –
they must take on challenges of corruption, job creation, and natural resource management. Need for more transparent
and youth inclusive governance policies in sub-Saharan Africa.· Technology could serve as a mean to strengthen governance on
the continent. Integrating technology to provide accessible data is needed to measure impacts and progress and address the
lack of accountability. · Governments and political parties should encourage African youth to become stakeholders, take
action, and participate in the decision making processes of their countries. Next StepsThe World Bank Group-IMF Young African Society looks forward to working closely with
the World Bank Group and IMF to use the preceding issues and recommendations as a starting point to develop a formal agenda
and action plan,, geared towards the uplift of African youth. It is our hope that we can empower African youth by isolating
the issues they face and formulating effective solutions by leveraging all of the available resources, networks, and expertise
at our disposal. The WBG-IMF Young African Society proposes to organize its next Youth Forum during the annual meetings in
order to discuss the conclusions that have been made both from the Africa Youth Forum on July 31st 2014
and the Africa Summit on August 5th and 6th 2014.Attachments:· Note from ILO on Youth employment in Africa(See attached file: African Youth Forum 2014 ILO Remarks.docx)· Presentation from ILO on Youth employment in Africa(See attached file:
African Youth Forum 2014 EZ presentation FV.pptx)· Presentation from World Bank Group on Jobs in Africa (See
attached file: WB Africa Youth Forum July 2014 .pptx)· YAS forum booklet(See attached
file: Africa Youth forum 2014 bio.pdf)· YAS brochure(See attached file: YAS brochure.pdf)· Final Agenda of the Forum with the list of participants(See attached file: WBG-IMF African Youth Forum Agenda July 31st 2014.pdf)· A link to a video with comments and recommendations from Youth (including YALIs) that attended
the forum : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFqsNcjeEQs&feature=youtu.be&list=PL59FB6C9C9D741D01 · To replay to the
forum you can use the following link: http://live.worldbank.org/african-youth-forum-2014 Cleared and cc:
Mmes/Messrs. Elikia Kamga Nenkam and Yvonne Kirabo (Co-Presidents and Founders of the YAS)
2:11 am edt
Monday, August 11, 2014 The
7 billion humans responsible for planet earth - as the 21st Century comes of age - are faced with 2 sustainability challenges:
is spending more on communcations than anything else a good idea? can the types of communications the 20th century used to
power over people be replaced by empowering media that leads to jobs and the entrepreneurial joy of lifelong learning? Africa
may now be the best continent on earth for sharing 2 questions with worldwide youth: is good news broadcasting possible? what
makes a nation happy and free to spend a life in? Noah Samara, is an Ethiopian who spent his time as a student in california
asking the question: what empowered European peoples to leapfrog out of the dark ages.? His conclusion : no single magic bullet
but a range of innovations in communications. It was this belief that led Noah to gift African peoples a satellite with a
common frequency across the continent for sharing life-changing information. Mo Ibrahim probably made more money from
telecommunications than any African. Today his foundation searches for public servants who lead their country to a better
place for all their peoples. And it aims to share its lessons with educators of every age group. Meanwhile a former colleague
has co-founded the satellite broadcaster Africa24tv whose reason for being is to employ 100 journalists to look for industry
leaders who can be trusted to be building Africa by and for Africans. What will a best for Africa pharma industry look like?
How could jobs across Africa gain if there was an IBM of Africa or if the next google was born in Africa? Is Africa already
making progress in designing world-leading schooling for jobs? mediators of economics of sustainable
growth *jobs - capital's (structuring of family savings) investing in youth out of every community *ending poverty and loss of voice on future of 3 halves of the world *public servants
of end inequality - purpose of new media, purpose of religious service obama, kim, pope, walesa) *
global village search for each trillion dollar market's most productve local purpose Africa24tv has a lot of work for
its journalists to mediate- arguably even more urgent and valuable work than when The Economist was founded in 1843 to publicly
test decision-making of leaders of the industrial revolution and the future potential of Comonwealth? 17 yeass after raising
these freedom questions out of Lndon's Saint James, Svot James Wilson was asked to start reforming Raj systems out of Calcutta.
This was not a good job for James who died of diarrhea 9 months into life in Calcutta but it is a shining example for all
of us of the difference between the goodwill mediator of economics who seeks to free the higher purpose of any market in sustaining
all peoples, and those journalists or economists with less transparent or more seflishly short-term monetary interests. Interestingly,
the journalists of Africa24tv are assigned to 6 Africas- recognising the diversity of future histories that the continent
will need to converge if it is to be a happy region as a whole to spend a life in as well as one celebrating joyful national
progress. Note how Mo Ibrahim chose to test American understanding in Aug 2014, it may be that the Cold War era was one in
which our peoples suffered even more unsustainable impacts on nationhood than the era of colonisation. The plea: do not send
us corporate or inward inestment partnerships now unless their purpose is for long-term win-win trades (especially empowering
local people with knowhow), Goodwill economics maps will be those that value helping peoples of Africa entreprenurially grow
their freedoms and happiness the way the USA used to celebrate in the D of I of 1776. 1:58 am edt
Friday, August 8, 2014 MB AlumniNaila thanks to all for the wonderful meeting yesterday
1 i dont know if MB (search learning) is going to be in new york during un week sept 22 on; if so would it make sense to try and arrange a meeting between
her and sir fazle abed
the event (October 9) process she was talking
about was founded by new york based www.ted.com -its
an exclusive once a year meeting is turned into videos- in every year but one these were hosted out of california; in one
year they were hosted out of tanzania- the african who acted as main host of tanzanian ted is new york and boston based
george
soros has been trying to mooc economics from ground up but not too successfully imo so far-i wonder if these connections could be made: out of budapest (soros central european
university) -june 2013- soros appointed abed 20th open society laureate; soros hosted paul farmer of partners in health; clearly
young eureopeeas east and west have more future if soros economics is freed than if we continue to have macroeconomics systems
and banking designed out of brussels and moscow
ted-x now licences citizen groups to host their own ted festivals-
of ban-ki moon and jim kim - they announce
a millennials competition for millennials- i wonder if maya is involved with that and whether a mooc could be made of millennials
ideas that need accelerating; this could be connected with a new catalogue of which un networks now collaborate with youth
and women from bottom up after the billion dollar restructuring by the turner family
still trying to find
out more about next steps with samara and taddy blecher and sunita gandhi- ideally they would know how to connect with open
learning campus 11:42 am edt
Thursday, August 7, 2014 Co-Presidents, WBG-IMF Young African Society (below); YAS wishes for africa at this 2 minute youibe by Lebogang Botswana, Percy S.Africa, Manamadou
Mali, Aurielle Cameroon, Adegboyega Nigeria, Ndidiamaka Nigeria, Tsegahwot
Etiopia, Cedric Cameroon, Eugene Tanzania, Yvonne Catherine Kirabo Yvonne Catherine Kirabo is the Co-President and Founder of the WBG-IMF Young African Society. She also works at the World
Bank Group as a Business Management Officer in the Information Technology Finance Line of Business. She started as a Junior
Professional Associate (JPA) at the World Bank Group working for the Corporate Solutions office in the Information and Technology
Solutions vice Presidency in January 2012. She served as the organizational management chair of the JPA Organizing Committee
and Lead Chair on the Youth Summit Organizing Committee 2013.
Ms. Kirabo’s
professional and educational backgrounds span the diverse disciplines of Project Management, Education, Business Analysis
and IT. She mostly worked as a Database Systems lecturer at London School of Commerce, interned at the United Nations in New
York City as a researcher and analyst on technology strategies for development in DPKO in addition to working as a strategy
consultant for John Snow Inc. Ms. Kirabo holds a BSc in Computer Engineering
and Networks from Kharkov National University, Ukraine and an MSc in Information Science from University of East London, United
Kingdom. She has been published in the Guardian and has received several awards including the World Bank’s Spot Award. She is a national of Uganda and spent her childhood in Kampala, Uganda and Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania. Experience and demographic identity have driven Ms. Kirabo’s passion for Youth inclusion and development.
She has been involved in several platforms including the Arab Youth Platform, established in 2013 in Saint-Marsel, France
for promoting Youth inclusion and participation.[/toggle] Elikia Kamga Nenkam
Elikia Kamga Nenkam is the Co-President and Founder of the
Young African Society. She also workd at the World Bank Group as Junior Professional Associate (JPA) in the Transport and
ICT global practice ore precisely in the Transport unit of the Africa region. Ms. Kamga Nenkam current position in the transport
unit of the Africa region gives her field knowledge of issues that Young African’s are currently experiencing in countries
such as Tanzania, Senegal, Burkina Faso and other sub-saharan African countries. This experience fostered her desire to continue
supporting Young Africans by founding the WBG-IMF Young African Society. Ms.
Kamga Nenkam professional and educational background s spans the diverse discipline of Project Management, operations, communication
strategy and financial analysis/markets.. Prior to the Worldbank, Ms. Kamga Nenkam was working for one of the Top asset management
company in Europe, Amundi Asset Management in Paris, where she assisted product specialist and fund manager in the selection
of global picking, raw materials stocks and Luxury stocks. Prior to this, she worked at Natixis investment securities in Paris
were she supported equity research analysts in the field of agribusinesses, beverages and consumer staples. Ms. Kamga Nenkamholds an MSc in Risk and Investment Management and a Master in Mangement from EDHEC
business school. She is the author of a research paper on Risk model and Foreign Direct Investment in Third World Countries She is a national of Cameroon and spent her childhood in Douala, Cameroon. Her passion
for development and for entrepreneurs empowerment led Elikia Kamga Nenkam to Found and serve as president for 2years of the
Micro Drilling Project renamed later Develop which objective is to foster development in sub-saharan Africa through micro-lending.
Elikia was also involved in Scola Africa an NGO that provided school supplies to remote villages in Bobo-diolasso, Burkina
Faso [/toggle] 9:53 am edt
Sunday, August 3, 2014 Bravo
Noah Samara - Gifetr of Africa's Free satellite now mainly at Yazmi.com, elearning-africa.com, DC and Ethiopia I had always wondered what happened that catapulted Europe from a period of dark ages and what comparable experience
could we do at African continent level -that could help enrich the continent - and I had this naive view that there would
be this one thing or another but for the most part instead UCLA gave me an insight into the power and the role of communication,
the power and the role of education, the power and role of spreading knowledge and how that impacts change BRIEF
ON NOEL SAMARA- from Top 10 Research of Book of Record Job Creators, Norman Macrae Foundation
- Youth Capitalism
HOW DOES A SATELLITE BRING THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA THE BEST JOBS CREATING EDU SYSTEM
AT 50 DOLLARS PER YOUTH
Interviewer
Nunu Wako : Noah Samara can you tell me a little a bit about yourself
so that people can see if they want to partner your goal? NS:
I was born in Ethiopia to and Ethiopian mother and a Sudanese father. I grew up in Ethiopia to the 9th grade and then went
with my dad who was working with African Unity - the whole family moved to Tanzania for 2 years, came back and completed high
school at Addis Ababa ( English School ). Then went to England
and the States (Pennsylvania and UCLA California) studied for a number years various things finally studying law then space
law which took me satellites- and satellites have been most of my career. (However before I got into law my phd in california
was on renaissance reformation history- I had always wondered what happened that catapulted Europe from a period of dark ages
and what comparable experience could we do at African continent level -that could help enrich the continent - and I had this
naive view that there would be this one thing or another but for the most part instead UCLA gave me an insight into the power
and the role of communication, the power and the role of education, the power and role of spreading knowledge and how that
impacts change I think growing up
in a diplomatic household exposed us not so much just being in another country (the people of that country) but also the circles
that our family moved in exposed us to people from Canada and from Germany and from Asia and from the Middle East as well
as various African country - and that certainly gives you perspective of a bigger world that a a world of a single culture.
But also growing up in a family my father from sudan, my mother from ethiopia, my father was a teacher in his early years
- so my family exposed us to cultures , to religions , to languages- so I have always grown up thinking about the world as
a wider larger lace that can accommodate a lot of different cultures not one that excluded one culture or oppresses another WORLDSPACE emerged from a series of events, I was working for a friend and mentor and a partner and a layer who was practising space law,
and I joined him as I was finishing law school, and later on joined a company called Geostar which launching unique type of
service which ultimately led to the explosion of GPS - Geostar was the pioneer of position based information. So I gained
a measure of experience of how to go about getting frequencies and I was emerged with various companies seeking different
kinds of service and requirements from US government and internationally. My job title at the time was Staff Attorney and
Global Coordinator (or some wonderful title) which basically said I was to coordinate the frequency allocation for Geostar
but in process of doing that I met many other companies with parallel needs and learnt a lot about the whole area of space
law, whole area of telecommunications FCC regulation, and the International Telecommunications Union that regulates frequencies
for global networks. Essentially I helped geostar getting the global frequencies allocated for its services. It was an experience
which made me popular for a few years with other companies who wanted me to consult on doing similar ting for them. But I soon got a
bit bored and at that time I read an article in The Washington Post at about how HIV was becoming a deadly epidemic oh huge
proportion-so the question raised was what to do to avoid it. The article went on predict that the epidemic would be worst
in Africa - the main reason being lack of communications infrastructure across the continent. (Interviewer How did you decide
to be a pioneer in satellite radio? Actually that was more a process of elimination. I thought the article was predicting
a tragedy of holocaustic proportion- so why cant we just put up a satellite and broadcast the necessary information across
the continent to know about this scourge. And what to do to avoid it
But
one thing led to another: I thought this same satellite can do this and that, there are so many things that can be done if
one was to put a satellite above continent which at that time was highly deprived of information. That was the beginnings
of what ended up being satellite radio. I went into radio at that tie because television was a very expensive thing to expect
it to spread whereas radio at the time was widely in use by families across Africa . So we thought radio would spread faster.
There were precedences too of companies already broadcasting to small hand-held devices like GPS - so if you could do GPS
you could do radio.
Fast Forward 20 Years. As things turned out a profitable
satellite radio model Syrius was found for usa. This has enable us to restructure- today we have the pan-africa satellite
frequency and its all going to be focused on elearning satellite enable tablets- whole the hardware bought massively will
cost 50 dollars- the one open education system this can beam in is now the most massive open partnering challenge a continent
youth have ever been invited to play - check it out at
Further
references:
millennial labs comparison -startups early 1990s richest out of boston: negropronte
founds media lab and $100laptop - note cost to connect extra
samara founds continent wide satllite,
social product satellite radio for freedom of information; service ends up profitable in usa finacing relaunch 2014 of satellite
channel across africa linked in bt 50$ laptop
version 26 July 2014 Usage notes: reporting is continuous - any errors chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk 2:43 pm edt
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perspective of Africa comes to DC week http://www.inafricangos.org/ Wednesday, July 30 2:00pm CCA Power Africa Working Group - "Navigating the Power Sector inEthiopia" (Houston) 6:30pm BCIU African Leaders Visit
to Chicago Welcome Reception 7:00pm USTDA African Leaders'
Visit Welcome Reception (Houston) Thursday, July 31 11:00am Atlantic Council's The US-Africa Leaders Summit: A Preview 6:00pm BCIU Dinner on Transportation in Africa (Chicago) Friday, August 1 9:00am USTDA African Leaders’ Visit: Luncheon and African Leaders Energy
Briefing (Houston) 9:30am BCIU Breakfast Discussion on Business Opportunities featuring African
Leaders (Chicago) 2:00pm Corporate Council on Africa Power Africa Working Group Sunday, August 3 8:00am Believe in Africa Day's
US-Africa Summit High Level Dialogue 12:00pm DC Africa Festival Monday, August 4 9:00am IPPF's Breakfast conversation on Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and
Rights 9:00am U.S.-South Africa Business Council's U.S. - South Africa Business and Investment Forum 9:15am “The Game Has Changed:
The New Landscape for Innovations and Business in Africa” 9:30am Corporate Council on Africa Business Forum 9:30am Atlantic Council: Morocco’s
Emergence as a Gateway to Business inAfrica 12:15pm Corporate Council on Africa's Power Lunch 1:30pm U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Presidential Plenary Discussion 5:30pm Diaspora African Forum Foundation's African Diaspora BridgeBuilders Awards Dinner WhenMon, August 4, 5:30pm – 8:30pm WhereWashington Marriott at Metro Center, 775 12th St NW, Washington, DC,United States (map) DescriptionWHO: Diaspora African Forum Foundation WHAT: The AfricanDiaspora Bridge Builders Awards Dinner Tuesday, August 5 8:30am African Summit Symposium
on Science, Technology and Innovation for Development in Africa 9:00am Growth and Opportunity in Africa Forum 11:00am Atlantic Council's A Conversation with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki 6:00pm Corporate Council on Africa's African Ministerial Networking Reception Wednesday, August 6 9:00am National Endowment for Democracy's African Civil Society Conference 12:00pm Atlantic Council's Investment
and Ingenuity: Overcoming Obstacles to Doing Business in Sub-Saharan Africa 7:00pm Presidential Dinner Discussion featuring President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria Thursday, August
7 10:00am IAAN Social Accountability Summit: "Call to Good Governance" Friday, August 8 12:00pm Presidential Luncheon with H.E. John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana 7:00pm IAAN Social Accountability Summit Grand Ball 7:00pm Presidential Dinner with H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta, President of theRepublic of Kenya Saturday, August 9 » 2:00am IAAN Social Accountability Summit Grand Ball 7:34 am edt
Saturday, March 16, 2013 From
Skoll http://skollworldforum.org/debate-post/for-africa-entrepreneurship-is-the-way/Up For Debate
Q: What Does it Mean to be an Entrepreneur in Africa?The future of Africa and the next generation of entrepreneurs are among the many global issues being addressed this year at the World Economic Forum, to be held January 23-27. In
advance of the convening and to aid the discussion ahead, the Skoll World Forum partnered with the Financial Times' This is Africamagazine and designed a debate at the strategic intersection of Africa and entrepreneurship. We asked some of the continent's
leading entrepreneurs and innovators to highlight some of the key lessons they learned working across and for Africa.  For Africa, Entrepreneurship is the WayTaddy Blecher Community
Individual Development Association and Maharishi Institute, CEO VIEW CONTRIBUTOR PAGE > Article Highlights:- Several economies in Africa are growing
at an extraordinary rate.
- There is a rising entrepreneurial spirit on the continent, in the wake of greater political
stability and reduced war.
- In South Africa, new mobile technology strategies are being used to educate the youth and
to promote entrepreneurship.
Something extraordinary is happening in Africa. In the wake of enhanced political
stability and reduced war in many countries, it is clear that a vibrant spirit of entrepreneurship is kicking in with vigor.
Between 2001 and 2010, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were in Africa and the International Monetary
Fund predicted that between 2011 and 2015, African countries will hold 7 of the top 10 spots. Many people think this growth
is fueled purely by a commodity boom – shipping raw materials to the east and elsewhere. Interestingly enough, this
accounts for only one third of the growth; the rest can be put down to genuine value creation, fueled by the spirit of entrepreneurship
very much alive on the continent. Many also argue that its easy to cite high growth figures off a low base. Nevertheless,
the growth levels being seen were certainly out of the ranges of prediction of many social and economic commentators even
a decade ago. However, all is not rosy on African soil. Several of the world’s poorest countries exist on the
continent, and hundreds of millions of people ache under the yoke of poverty every day. If one considers the plethora of issues
to solve: poverty and malnutrition, health crises, corruption, crime levels in certain countries, and so on, one can throw
up one’s hands. At the same time, African populations are growing rapidly. It is expected that by 2040, the total African
population will be the largest in the world, surpassing both China and India, further exacerbating these problems. Jobs are
not keeping pace with population growth rates and issues of unemployment acutely affect the growing ‘youth bulge’
across the continent, which has implications for political stability across the continent, as has recently been witnessed
by many of the northern Arab States. The real solution for Africa is being driven every day by African people themselves
– human creativity and hard work, the spirit of entrepreneurship and the creation of small businesses in their millions
– leading to job creation, enhanced socio-economic stability, and the consequent benefits of greater purchasing power,
which buys quality education and healthcare. In this way, millions have come from poverty into the middle class. Further,
with the growing consumer classes, population growth rates–if harnessed correctly–will prove to be a major demographic
dividend. Harnessing this dividend requires the development of two key drivers simultaneously: the demand side and the
supply side. The demand side requires nurturing the fire to build a thriving business sector, that is in turn hungry for talent.
Stimulating the supply side requires the stocking of a quality skills base that can provide this talent to meet the growing
demand for goods and services. For this particular article, I will focus on the demand side. It is essential to recognize
that the backbone of every African economy is in fact small business, usually organizations with less than 50 employees. They
are not large domestic businesses, multi-nationals, or ‘overstaffed’ governments. In South Africa, in the formal
sector alone, nearly 70% of all people employed in the country are employed full-time in small businesses. If the informal
sector is added, this would take the figure to 85%-90% of all employment. In other words, small businesses are the backbone
of the economy and the employer of millions. Therefore, it is in the removal of obstacles facing these small businesses, and
in the creation of an enabling environment, that in fact the future of unemployment will be determined. Creating this
conducive environment for business is where government needs to step in, or ‘step out’ when it comes to the removal
of red tape, and to the creation of a conducive policies. It is also essential to create a social compact for Government and
Business to work together. South Africa provides a unique example of how such a platform for engagement has been created
where social partners can engage on issues of mutual concern. This forum is known as the Human Resource Development Council
for South Africa, and is led by the Deputy President of the country. It consists of senior decision makers from all sectors
of society. The Council is focused on resolving the problems facing education and skills development in the country, and has
identified the fact that youth unemployment levels, particularly amongst black African youth, at over 50% are unacceptably
high. As a result, amongst other interventions, it has agreed that urgent action must be taken to strengthen entrepreneurial
activity in the country to build the ‘demand side’. The Council has appointed a Technical Task Team to develop
a set of recommendations in this regard, which I am fortunate to chair. “Many people think
the economic growth in Africa is fuelled purely by a commodity boom – this accounts for only one third of the growth;
the rest can be put down to genuine value creation, fuelled by the spirit of entrepreneurship very much alive on the continent.” Our
team is currently investigating a variety of ways to strengthen small business, including the delivery of entrepreneurship
curriculum in schools, Further Education and Training Colleges and Universities, as well as interventions to support the small
business sector directly. I will dwell on one innovative approach, which through a collaboration of partners we have
enlisted, has begun implementation with excellent results to date: a ‘National Virtual Incubator’ (‘NVI’).
The NVI is a national intervention being built as a genuine public-private partnership. We have identified that the
best way to reach and support the millions of small businesses across the country is through mobile technology and the mass
media. In South Africa there are more than 60 million mobile phones amongst the 52 million population, and across Africa there
are now well over 600-million mobile phone users. Our National Virtual Incubator is focused on providing most of the support
services that our country’s physical business incubators provide, but directly to the entrepreneur’s pocket. Currently,
33 physical business incubators have in total supported only a few thousand businesses over the past decade, whereas the ‘NVI’
we believe will be able to support millions of small businesses. By using mobile technology to provide services such as access
to free business education and training, support for any business to build its own free website, access to finance and financial
advice, online coaching and mentoring, free master-classes, and a host of other support tools under development, small businesses–wherever
they are–can access quality services in real time. We are developing partnerships with a growing number of public and
private sector organizations like Google, Vodacom, Internet Solutions, Pearson’s Books, Regenesys, University of Cape
Town, and others in order to facilitate the development and delivery of these world-class services. The strategy is
starting to pay off: already nearly 50,000 small businesses have created free websites using the ‘wozaonline’
tool created by Google, which is having a measurable impact on their revenues and employment levels. Additionally, over 100,000
people accessed the Regenesys Business School website during the first 3 weeks when we opened access to all the learning materials
for free (textbooks, videos, manuals, notes) for an accredited and registered MBA, Bachelors Degree in Business, and other
degrees. We are hopeful that we will assist at least 1 million small businesses to employ at least one million youth across
the country over the next five years. The National Virtual Incubator, amongst many other solutions being developed, will help
stimulate the already growing entrepreneurial levels in the country, and we hope to share our learning’s across the
continent. Ultimately, it will not be through government, foreign aid or bi-lateral agreements that a nation gets on
its feet, but as we say in Zulu – vuk u’zenzele – get up and do it for yourself. Africa has the resources,
the land, the people, and hence the possibility to get it right. Entrepreneurship, along with the pre-requisite education
and skills levels needed, is going to be the glue that holds it all together. 9:29 am edt
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 1:55 pm edt
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 Ed
Board of The new harvest
Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project Project Director and Lead Author Calestous Juma, Harvard Kennedy
School, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA International Advisory Panel and Contributing Authors John Adeoti,
Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Ibadan, Nigeria Aggrey Ambali, NEPAD Planning and Coordinating
Agency, Tshwane, South Africa N’Dri Assié-Lumumba, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Zhangliang
Chen, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, People’s Republic of China Mateja Dermastia, Anteja ECG,
Ljubljana, Slovenia Anil Gupta, Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions,
and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India Daniel Kammen, University of California, Berkeley, USA Margaret
Kilo, African Development Bank, Tunis, Tunisia Hiroyuki Kubota, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo Francis
Mangeni, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, Lusaka, Zambia Magdy Madkour, Ain Shams University, Cairo,
Egypt Venkatesh Narayanamurti, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA Robert Paarlberg,
Wellesley College and Harvard University, USA Maria Jose Sampaio, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Brasilia,
Brazil Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network, Tshwane, South Africa Greet Smets, Biotechnology and Regulatory Specialist, Essen, Belgium Botlhale Tema, African Creative Connections, Johannesburg, South Africa Jeff Waage, London International Development Centre, London Judi Wakhungu, African Centre for Technology
Studies, Nairobi, Kenya Project Coordinator Greg Durham, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge,
USA 3:13 pm est
Friday, December 24, 2010 jamii bora google zeitgist• Z2010 From Philipinnes journalists http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/261607/the-story-jamii-bora-beggars-and-thieves-entrepreneurs In an internet report dated July 16, 2009 submitted by Danielle Dumm, he said: “Armed with hand-held POS
(Point of Service) devices, Jamii Bora’s staff can connect clients to services at branch locations and in the field.
Each member of Jamii Bora is issued an identity card embedded with a biometric reading of their fingerprint. To deposit or
withdraw funds, Jamii Bora staff simply swipe the biometric card on the POS, open the member’s account and record the
transaction. To confirm and authorize the transaction, the Jamii Bora member must press their thumb to the POS machine and
a receipt is printed for the member’s records. All POS transactions are logged by a central server and reconciliation
takes place at the close of each and every business day. This system is more high-tech than that of many commercial
banks around the world, and yet, it is brilliantly simple and perfectly suited to the needs of Jamii Bora and its members.
There is no need to remember pin numbers or be fully literate. The POS model also allows for real-time transaction processing
and overall cost-savings, both of which are pivotal to the organization achieving financial sustainability and growth.
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