Africa’s Potential Is In Its’ Youth and Teen Entrepreneurs
William Jackson, M.Ed. My Quest to Teach
https://myquesttoteach.com/
KidsCamp Lagos
The changes in African agriculture, industry and commerce has expanded beyond the traditional history that has sustained the continent for hundreds of years. The development of infrastructures based on digital foundations of information is moving Africa to a place of world influence on levels not seen before. Agriculture is still valuable, but the management of information
is handled better with technological assistance.
The abundance of natural and sustainable resources helps to lift Africa to higher levels of global influence because there is so much to share with the world and support a comfortable and sustainable living in developing cities and communities. Technology is changing the paradigm of business growth
and management on the African continent.
The decades have brought in an age of digital integration, information technology, research implementation and the adage that the mother of necessity breeds innovation. This encourages creativity through thought leadership, critical and higher order thinking research and collaboration
across the continent.
The men and women of Africa that have dreams of change to the betterment of all Africans, they can apply their knowledge as developing business owners, artists, entrepreneurs, solo-preneurs, inventors, dreamers and educators. “Africa does not need leaders who are 75 or 65 years old. We need leaders who are young‚ vibrant‚ innovative and who the continent’s
youth can relate to.” Former first lady Graca Machel
The building of digital infrastructures is happening across the continent and is birthing new careers that are benefiting the youngest entrepreneurs and solo-preneurs that are growing across the African continent. Their works
are being felt in their communities not from aging governmental leaders.
Infrastructure is a catalyst that supports collaboration not competition and the focus is not just monetary, the focus is on innovative discoveries, creative concepts that help Africans to live better lives free from struggles of poverty, lack of educational equality and equability for boys and girls. Both genders
have equal access learning systems.
Groups like JAWmazing Kids @JAWmazingKids are showing the way to improving the lives of youth, teens and young adults, teaching them skills needed to be future leaders and innovators. African students in higher educational institutions can access information to build learning communities that allow for increased Professional Leaning Communities and building Professional Learning Networks.
Collaboration is key !!!
By 2025, 97 percent of worldwide growth will occur in the world’s emerging markets in Africa. Africa isn’t just driving technology change for Africa, but for the world at large. By 2025, the population of Africa will exceed that of India and of China. Shortly after that, about 40% of the world’s working-age
population will be in Africa, a continent of 54 countries.
Digital Innovation
Information taken from Africa young technology leaders innovating in Africa.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/africa-young-tech-leaders-innovating/ The access to information helps learning leaders like Great Anthony @AnthonyMcGreat Organizer of WordCamp PortHarcourt and Mary Job @maryojob Organizer for WordCamp Lagos to grow, inspire and mentor youth locally, nationally and even on an international level in WordCamp and
KidsCamp conferences.
There are learning programs that teach African children to code JAWmazing Kids @JAWmazingKids engage in STEAM Science Technology Engineering Arts events. The improvement in reading and comprehension and even involvement are being performed by educators like Victor Owuor @victoravikobits helping to teach
children the foundations of technology through reading.
Jacob Sule @SuleJacobs, he has developed the iReadInitative @iReadInitiative to help develop increased reading, comprehension, critical and higher order thinking of African children. The Ghana CEO Summit
(http://www.ghanaceosummit.net/) helps to define the challenges to
educational and economic growth, promoting increased global commerce
and trade.
There is great value in teaching African youth, teens and young adults that entrepreneurship as a career is obtainable and supportable. The creation of personal income, wealth and generational prosperity from the creation of businesses that satisfy the needs of local communities is increasingly possible because of the development of technologies that Africans
have access to and are developing themselves.
Even education is influenced by the growing EdCamps that allow teachers to collaborate to better implement educational best practices for learning and engagement.
https://www.africaontheblog.org/bring-edcamps-to-africa-to-build-collaboration-and-connectedness/
African Entrepreneurs pump needed monies back into their communities and cities that allow for a stronger tax base and infusion of monies that build schools, support building roads and infrastructures for better living in
cities. They are all connected and transparent when working together.
Providing services and products that strengthen communities, cities and nations. Africa’s youth need more than just the access to technology, Cathy Smith, Managing Director at SAP Africa they need to be taught and mentored to perform better.
https://www.africa.com/africas-youth-needs-more-than-just-technology/
As a teacher of 31 years African children like American children need mentors, role models and access to people that look like them, sound like them, but
who have grown and moved away from poverty.
African children like American need to see the representation that inspires each generation to take the necessary steps to grow beyond where they are. Growth is creating change and this change is creating sustainable careers, educational access and helping to change the narrative from agriculture to digital integration of technology that benefits everyone in Africa. Any nation that wants to have influence on a global scale must teach, mentor, guide, encourage and empower it’s younger generations.
Africa’s Potential Is In Its’ Youth and Teen Entrepreneurs
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William is the digital innovator for his brand My Quest To Teach using the hashtag #MyQuestToTeach sharing his journey teaching, mentoring,
community activism and community collaborations.