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Prof. Bitange Ndemo on Africa's AI Moment: Can Technology Fix the Systems Holding Us Back?

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Prof. Bitange Ndemo was the Permanent Secretary who signed off on M-Pesa without a regulation in sight, the man who said Kenya needed 5,000 megawatts and got called drunk for it, and the one who predicted international calls would fall from 60 shillings to 3 when the undersea cable landed. They did.

Topics: A guest who needs no introduction · When disorder masquerades as development: the junction in Uganda · Four steps forward, two back, and why this moment matters · AI in education: mother tongue and the average-student problem · TB diagnosis on a phone · One acre in Kisii, 5,000 chickens, 3.5 million shillings

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All They Need Is a Job | Lillian Madeje on Africa's Broken Path to Work

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Lillian Madeje has spent fifteen years working on the question she was given in her first job in 2011: how do you get the right young people to the employers who need them? The question is still open, and she is still working on it.

Topics: Crossing borders: welcome, Lillian · A spiderweb of human connection · Fifteen years, the same hiring problem · A plaster on the wound, and the salon test she failed · What Niajiri actually does · Technical skills and the polytechnic stigma

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All They Need Is a Job | Lillian Madeje on Africa's Broken Path to Work

12K views · 1mo ago · 1:12:05

Lillian Madeje has spent fifteen years working on the question she was given in her first job in 2011: how do you get the right young people to the employers who need them? The question is still open, and she is still working on it.

Topics: Crossing borders: welcome, Lillian · A spiderweb of human connection · Fifteen years, the same hiring problem · A plaster on the wound, and the salon test she failed · What Niajiri actually does · Technical skills and the polytechnic stigma

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Prof. Bitange Ndemo on Africa's AI Moment: Can Technology Fix the Systems Holding Us Back?

All They Need Is a Job | Lillian Madeje on Africa's Broken Path to Work

All They Need Is a Job | Lillian Madeje on Africa's Broken Path to Work

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