If anyone had hinted about remote learning and virtual mentorship forums in Kenya before COVID-19, I would have thought that they were dreaming or just building castles in the air. It is not that this is impossible; rather, it is just that governments in Africa have not invested sufficiently in
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Why must African scholars participate? FORCE11 — The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship. The FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) will this year hold a virtual event from August 3–13, 2020. The focus this year is of key interest to Kenya and Africa: FAIR
Spotlight on the African Youth Globalising the job market and garnering a borderless talent pool COVID-19 has not introduced the centrality of digital transformation in shaping the future of work and workers any more than the Fourth Industrial Revolution has introduced the centrality of
Topics of Interest Mentorship & Funding Sources | Data-Driven Careers & Transferable Skills | Productivity Tools Impact Borderless Digital (IBD) invites you to the 2nd International IBD Zoom Forum on 12th June 2020, 11:00 – 12:30 East Africa Time (EAT). The global forum will be
Model scenarios, public perspectives, and implications for reopening in Kenya Pondering pathways for coping with a pandemic which is determined to be endemic is ultimately a marathon exercise in managing complexity. Short-termism has no chance. Routine tools of tactical combat must give way to
The Topical Issues On May 29, 2020, Impact Borderless Digital (IBD) conducted an international Zoom Forum on the topic: Education 4.0: Talents, Skills Development and Resilience During and After COVID-19. The topics covered included borderless learning resources, digital fluency, digital economy,
Impact Borderless Digital invites you to the Inaugural Zoom Forum on 29th May 2020 from 1100H EAT. “COVID-19 has been a disruptive, distractive, destructive, and distancing disease. Riding the wave of the Digital Transformation, we can together disrupt business as usual to turn the crisis
Redefining priorities for thriving as regional blocs with examples from East Africa The number 4 has been associated with wisdom, honesty, justice, loyalty, trust, passion, perseverance, strength, and creation. Houses rest on foundations with four corners as a basic requirement. Four, not three,
Public perspectives on exposure risks and implications for the education sector The imperative for adaptive resilience In Africa, Lesotho has now joined the list of countries with confirmed COVID-19 cases. As at May 16, Kenya had confirmed 830 cases with a recovery rate of 36% and a case fatality
Lessons towards a renewed public policy resolve for adaptive resilience in Africa beyond flattening the Covid-19 curve Recently, the world has come to know disease and disaster governance as a serious matter of public policy with borderless geopolitical implications. Despite the small number of