How much do you take internet access for granted? If your internet was suddenly disconnected for a period of over a week, would you start to feel anxious and uncomfortable. Feel you were missing out on things? Maybe even start to lose your sense of humour? Would you feel your rights were being violated if someone turned off free internet …
The shock that drove me to empower women in Africa
The shock felt like a glacial dagger plunged into my heart. OMG. This could never, ever, ever be allowed to happen again. I looked at the newspaper story again – it was four short paragraphs describing a recent court case. But what had led to it, was simply horrifying. How desperate could you be to resort to killing your own …
Growing women-owned SMEs in Africa: a new approach
What if we innovated the traditional “women-owned” business certification process to leverage consumers, not quotas, to help women-owned small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) to grow? The traditional road to women’s economic empowerment is arduous: it takes decades of concerted efforts to reform policies, laws and statutes, not to mention generations of changing minds and prevailing cultural and social “norms.” But nowadays there …