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Digitization and Food Security, Part 2
It has become evident to global researchers over the last decade that digital technologies are the key factor of a good-jobs strategy for African countries.
Digitization and Food Security, Part 1
Digitalization is one of the greatest transformative opportunities of our time. It can redress intergenerational systems of poverty, make incremental and impactful alterations in how humans interact with climate, accelerate human capacity development where it never existed before ... to mention just a few of the immediately perceived benefits of digitalization.
Doing Good While Doing Well
The technocratic world raises moral issues for which past ethics, geared to dealings amongst people within narrow geographical and temporal ranges, are no longer adequate in the digital age. No previous society has had such powerful tools for good and ill.
Moja’s Systemic Agricultural Strategy: Tightening the Digital Loop in the African Circular Economy
In many parts of the world, including Africa, stagnant economies, rising inequality, widespread youth unemployment, increasing food insecurity, and sluggish regional growth have renewed interest in and experimentation with iterations of industrial policy.
Youth Unemployment and Food Insecurity: What Moja Plans to Do
Small-holder farmers need to learn climate smart agricultural practices, and they need to be able to trade in wider circles, even as they take simultaneous steps to become more resilient to climate shocks.
What Does Digital Disruption Mean for Education and Training? (Part 3)
Right now, three major challenges can be identified that innovators in digital education are seeking to surmount.
What Does Digital Disruption Mean for Education and Training? (Part 2)
The fundamental issue the African continent is struggling with now is educational quality. Lack of quality in education perpetuates the mismatch between the world of education and the world of work.
What Does Digital Disruption Mean for Education and Training? (Part 1)
According to technology expert Shankar Maruwada, educators need to prepare for a coming “education revolution” that will see learners breaking from traditional models to embrace shorter spurts of education throughout their lives.
Sub-Saharan Africa Is Poised to Lead the Global Digital Economy
With worldwide internet penetration at nearly 50 percent, the global digital economy has become a space of immense opportunity.