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Jobtech Alliance: Gender Strategy
By: Manan Sharma Gender and Jobtech in Africa Women’s involvement and success on jobtech platforms presents a pathway to economic empowerment and better quality of life across sub-Saharan Africa. Globally, women are more actively engaged in online platform work than...
The Impact of AI on Jobtech Platforms: views of the founders
This is a crowdsourced article from Jobtech Alliance Platform Members, who offer on-the-ground insights into the future of work. For this edition of Community Lessons, we asked them “what is the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on your jobtech business” While AI...
What is ‘a job’? Pt 2: Lessons from the data
By Jared Adema and Chris Maclay Summary of Part 1 In our first blog on this topic, we explained how we measure job creation on jobtech platforms in Africa. If you want the summary, read the box below; if not, feel free to jump over: We explained how we chose to ‘count...
Landscape Scan on Digital tools for Worker Enablement
By Manan Sharma Digital Tools for Worker Enablement have emerged in the global jobtech landscape, but - with exceptions - are yet to truly arrive on the African continent. They address critical infrastructure gaps for workers in the platform economy, arising partly...