20 Important African Startups to Watch

Kenya's huge success with mobile money and the M-Pesa platform has launched Africa into the startup spotlight.
Whether ecommerce in Nigera, price comparison in South Africa or mobile advertising in Tanzania, African startups are changing the continent.

Read more at: http://mashable.com/2013/06/06/african-startups/

Supply Chain Management Degree For A Rewarding Career

Supply chain management degree programs are ideal for people interested in obtaining supply chain management certification for enhancing their careers in business, government, nonprofit, or military settings.
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Supply Chain Management Degree For A Rewarding Career

Choosing an MBA Program Online or On Campus

A masters in business administration program (or MBA program) is one of the most popular degrees in higher education. This page has details of a range of programs, where they can be taken, what the prospects are, and more ...

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Choosing an MBA Program Online or On Campus

Humanitarian Issues: A new way to access information

One of the challenges faced by humanitarian workers is access to timely, relevant and accurate information.   New technology provides an opportunity for humanitarian workers to develop better ways to access and share this information, and get aid to those who need it more quickly and effectively.  OCHA has developed the Humanitarian Kiosk to address the diverse information needs of humanitarian agencies and workers. This app enables an office to share key, up-to-date humanitarian content that is readily available for download from a mobile device.  Users might be aid workers on the ground or senior UN managers attending high level meetings in New York, Nairobi or Bangkok.

More details at: http://www.unocha.org/top-stories/all-stories/humanitarian-issues-new-way-access-information

Executive Online MBA

Find out more about executive online MBA programs, which provide a self-paced, flexible, and convenient way for you to qualify for a prestigious career.

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Technology Management MBA

A technology management MBA will provide you with the skills and knowledge that you require to get ahead in this highly strategic field.  This page provides more details and has links to selected schools offering these programs.
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Oct 3 - Small Business MidWeek News is out

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An online newspaper that collects together news for small business owners, entrepreneurs and students, in this midweek edition of “Small Business News”.

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Financial Planning Degree

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Find out about Financial planning degree programs, what the courses are, what employers expect, what the prospects are, and much more …
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Sept 12 - Small Business MidWeek News

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Small Business Weekend News

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Business Degree Programs

Business degree programs can still lead to lucrative careers, even in today's challenging economic environment. There are many opportunities available for those who hold associates, bachelors, and master degrees in a business-related field, and of course, there is always the possibility of starting one's own small business.
This web page looks at where you can take suitable programs, what the trends are, and what you can earn after graduation.

Lead the Field with an MBA in International Business Degree

Online and Distance Learning: MBA in International Business: As companies enter the global market, it becomes necessary for them to include individuals with international business knowledge and expertise. Read more ...

Co-founder of Apple - Steve Jobs - has passed away

The co-founder and Chairman of Apple Steve Jobs died today.  He was 56.

This is a great loss to the IT industry and a great loss to all the users who have been touched by the changes that Steve was responsible - changes not only in technology but also in how it can best be used to serve the end user.  As Obama said: "Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

Steve's philosophy of the business of IT is summed up in his strategy and vision for Apple, i.e., "to start with: 'What incredible benefits can we give the customer?' not start with: 'Let's sit down with the engineers, and figure out what awesome technology we have and then figure out how to market that.'"

Here are some memorable videos that trace Steve's ideas over ten years ago.

"Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs (WWDC'97)

Steve Jobs Macworld 1998 Keynote (Part 2)

Looking back at these videos, one can trace the path that Apple took and how it improved the users' experience of computing.  And this was the impact of Steve Job's vision.  A truly visionary leader in the technology industry and in business.  He will be sorely missed.

Can you make a cellphone change the world?

Can you make a cellphone change the world?  This is the description for an innovative course at MIT.  The course - NextLab - is a hands-on year-long design course in which students research, develop and deploy mobile technologies for the next billion mobile users in developing economies.

For too many years, many universities have developed an image of being too distant from real life problems.  This course certainly changes that.   The students work on projects that seek to address real social challenges in areas such as health, microfinance, entrepreneurship, education, and civic activism.

Students addressing real challenges

Students work in multidisciplinary teams on the projects, closely collaborating with NGOs and communities at the local level, field practitioners, and experts in relevant fields.  Students with technically and socially viable prototypes may obtain funding for travel to their target communities, in order to obtain the first-hand feedback necessary to prepare their technologies for full fledged deployment into the real world.

This is a highly appropriate technological area to work in as it has such potential for bringing change to people's lives.  For example, as governments try to provide higher education to people previously without access, they require flexible delivery methods to enable students to learn from anywhere and at anytime. Online education provides the methodology but problems of convenient access still remained until mobile technology tackled the challenge.  This technology coupled with online distance education allows students to use readily available devices to learn without attending campus.  Thus, whilst studying, they can continue working or staying at home to care for their family members.  And the government doesn't have the expense of providing extra buildings for these additional students accessing by distance education.

And that just happens to be the topic of our forthcoming book in the series: Educational Design and Technology in the Knowledge Society edited by Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies and Wanjira Kinuthia, Georgia State University.

iDISC - the infoDev Incubator Support Center

The infoDev Incubator Support Center - iDISC - provides hands-on and practical information for incubators and other business development organizations using ICT to facilitate entrepreneurship and new business creation in the developing world. It is also a place where members of the Network can tell their stories and link up with similar organizations.



On iDISC you can find:

• A “How to” section with guidelines for starting an incubator, selecting clients, managing and financing an incubator, monitoring and evaluation, and engaging partners.
• An overview of our 5 regional networks and activities across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, and Middle East & Northern Africa.
• An iDisc Network Member Directory that allows you to search and locate incubators across the regions, and to search facts & figures within the global network.
• Network members' Success Stories and Tools that tell us about the impact of business incubation on business start-ups and tools that can be shared among network members to implement best practices.
• Presentations and documents from workshops and specific research themes.
• Information on upcoming events, such as infoDev regional workshops as well as local seminars and symposiums.

This virtual networking and knowledge-sharing platform has its origins in infoDev’s Incubator Initiative, which started in 2002 to support organizations promoting ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship in developing countries.

High bandwidth connectivity in developing countries?

Assistant Professor Vivek Pai and his research team at Princeton University have developed HashCache, a highly efficient method of storing frequently accessed Web content on a local hard drive instead of using precious bandwidth to retrieve the same information repeatedly. This reduces the cost of networking, and enables small computers such as those used for the One Laptop Per Child project to access high bandwidth content. It also enables classes of students who are likely to be accessing the same content to do this cheaply and quickly.

More details are given in the video:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1827871101?bctid=9866407001

In this video, Vivek Pai talks about the new technologies that could help make Internet access available to people in remote areas, especially in the developing world — where network access may be available only intermittently or with low reliability.