As Africa awakes to its enormous promises and confronts the challenges that it must surmount, the recent World Economic Forum Africa Summit in 2013 reflected on how Africa’s entrepreneurs can be transformed into global champions.
The key points that emerged were that, though entrepreneurship is growing rapidly in Africa, there are significant difficulties and barriers that entrepreneurs must confront. Lack of access
Energy, environment, food production, and healthcare are some of the top challenges in the world that are being confronted by the faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and other campuses of the UW system as part of a study abroad class on social entrepreneurship being taught at Oxford University this August
The road to Mosiro is long, uncertain and difficult to navigate in many ways. Sometimes you will cross rifts in the road that could have been called valleys; some places the track is washed out and you must detour through the savanna.
Life is also hard on the savannas of Kenya for the Maasai people. Life was made many
May 2013
It is amazing how much change can be caused by one person’s idea and the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is a result of Jorn Lyseggen’s idea that with guidance and support people can achieve remarkable results. Established by the non-profit Meltwater Foundation in Accra, Ghana in 2008 as an effort to create jobs and wealth locally
“With power comes responsibility – it is as simple as that” said Professor Peter Tufano as he welcomed visitors to a discussion about business leadership and responsibility to celebrate the creation of the Kim B. Clark Fellowship in Responsible Leadership at Saїd Business School at Oxford University on September 7th. “Business organisations have power. How should
While there has been much written about the terrible events that took place at the Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, there has been less said about the progress made in Kenya to overcome home-grown political violence. On Dec. 27, 2007, Kenya’s incumbent President Mwai Kibaki claimed victory in an election amid cries of scandal and
This is a tale of two development models used by northern Mexican cities. Both of them are located in the state of Chihuahua; one of them can be considered a success and the other, although it had a recent turnaround, has seen a bitter and brutal chapter of its history unfold during the last decade.
We find the opinion section in newspapers and online publications a valuable forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas. For those of you interested in joining the conversation, but unsure how to get started, we would like to lay out a few observations and guidelines that we have gleaned from experience
Salt Lake City and Mexico City are places that have faced large air pollution issues in recent years. Although the two cities are very different, they have the same interest in controlling this malady, and despite the fact that the cities are not comparable, it doesn’t hurt to see what each one has done. Both
