Facebook Chief Product Officer takes ideas from West Africa home to California: Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer at Facebook (www.Facebook.com), will be taking feedback and inspiration from the developer and content creator communities back to California following his visits to Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal this week. Cox was in West Africa to find out how the region’s … [Read more...] about Facebook Chief Product Officer takes ideas from West Africa home to California
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Transformation in Africa Requires a Convergence of Ideas, Initiatives and Vision
Transformation in Africa Requires a Convergence of Ideas, Initiatives and Vision: The Convergence of Nations is now available in English, French and Portuguese Thirty contributions from some of the worlds most intellectual thinkers on Africa African Entrepreneur, Investor and Innovation Influencer Jean – Claude Bastos de Morais (www.JeanClaudeBastosDeMorais.com) … [Read more...] about Transformation in Africa Requires a Convergence of Ideas, Initiatives and Vision
Incubating ideas on how southern Africa can manage the Anthropocene | The Conversation
Incubating ideas on how southern Africa can manage the Anthropocene: A market in Zambia. The Anthropocene in this case looks at the world positively and how to overcome challenges. ShutterstockThe Anthropocene, or the “Age of Man”, is the name given to the current geological epoch. This is an acknowledgement that humanity has become a dominant global force reshaping the … [Read more...] about Incubating ideas on how southern Africa can manage the Anthropocene | The Conversation
The Silicon Valley way: Ideas, failure, persistence, and resilience
The Silicon Valley way: Ideas, failure, persistence, and resilience: The San Francisco Bay area in the US is home to Silicon Valley, an engine of technological innovation that produces more revenue in a single year than South Africa’s entire GDP output. Kevin Lourens, chief growth officer at NATIVE VML, recently spent five days in Silicon Valley, where he learned that … [Read more...] about The Silicon Valley way: Ideas, failure, persistence, and resilience
The right support can help scientists turn their best ideas into businesses | The Conversation
The right support can help scientists turn their best ideas into businesses: Scientists can find it tough to turn a great idea or innovation into a successful business. ShutterstockScience can – and frequently does – change the world. But it’s one thing to come up with a brilliant idea and an entirely different thing to bring it to life. Scientists aren’t necessarily business … [Read more...] about The right support can help scientists turn their best ideas into businesses | The Conversation
