With youth unemployment above 60 percent, South Africa is betting on digital skills to drive inclusive growth. Here is how MICT SETA is positioning the next generation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
African tech innovators: Our Uber moment is coming
We all know that we face some unique challenges in Africa, driven by the lack of access to market and the relatively small skills pool to draw from. If we look at the four types of innovation (thanks to The Innovator’s Dilemma for the foundation) they are:
- True Innovation: creating something new that has not been done before
- Incremental Innovation: improving something that exists
- Sector Innovation: taking bits of tech from other sectors to disrupt another sector
- Market Innovation: figuring out new ways to get to market and scale
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