The East Africa’s Community’s future plan focuses on the establishment of a single market in the financial services among its partner states, so as to enhance the availability of financial products and services to all.
Jack Ma Foundation has invited doctors to write down this Handbook for COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment.
We are willing to share this handbook to doctors all over the world in supporting their fight against the pandemic. Please feel free to share, download, print and distribute them to the doctors and nurses close to you. Thank you!
Handbook English version 英文版: https://www.alibabacloud.com/zh/universal-service/pdf_reader?pdf=Handbook_of_COVID_19_Prevention_en_Mobile.pdf
The African Development Bank through its Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy Is launching the #AfricaVsVirus Challenge, an opportunity to create tech and non-tech solutions to tackle some of the most pressing challenges created by the corona virus pandemic.
We are calling on socially committed citizens worldwide, problem solvers, creative minds, health experts, programmers, graphic and web-designers to come together in a 72-hour digital collaborative process to bring about ground-breaking solutions addressing some of the social and economic challenges posed by the corona virus. Following the #AfricaVsVirus Challenge the best solutions will be selected and will be fully implemented with partners and donors in Africa and worldwide.
Date/Time
The #AfricaVsVirus Challenge will take place from April 17th-19th, 2020 online. Participants will have 72 hours to collaborate in teams and build solutions to specific challenges. We will start with a kick-off session on Thursday 16th at 18:30 GMT+1 and end on Sunday 19th at 18:30 GMT+1.
You can register for this here:
https://africavsvirus.com/
In Kenya, Eneza Education has partnered with Safaricom to deliver free learning materials by even the simplest of mobile phones.
And in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where schools closed for months during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, there has been a swift return to radio
Rising Academies have also put their scripts online under a creative commons license. In just a week, they have had interest in the materials from across 10 different countries, mostly in Africa but some in South Asia.
According to Village Capital, 90% of the funding in East Africa’s VC market goes to foreign nationals. Access to funding networks is considered the largest challenge for local entrepreneurs and promising startups
Pangea Building the Team @ SuperReturn International 2020