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The curious question of scale and jobtech in Africa
By Chris Maclay When I joined Lynk in 2017, I was excited about embarking on our mission of connecting millions of informal workers in Kenya to jobs. Millions. I was so excited. This was tech-enabled scale. Or so I thought. Back then I used to work on the customer...
The Case for Portable Reputation
By Timothy AsiimweWe've previously sought to understand what the infrastructure for jobtech in Africa looks like (see here). This article dives into a critical part of the jobtech stack - portable reputation. The emergence of gig platforms has reshaped how millions...
Government and jobtech in Africa
By Jenn Otieno In this series, we’ll explore how different African jobtech initiatives have leveraged the powerful combination of technology and partnerships with government to generate exponential growth. In this article, we begin by looking at three models of...
Global inspirations: social commerce giant Meesho creating jobs at scale
Author: Tracy Mwaura In this article, we look to India for global inspiration in social commerce. We explore how this e-commerce platform has created income for over 1 million people in India. As a very timely note for this article, Ghanaian social commerce platform...