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#DOTYouth Driving Social Innovation from Grassroots to Global

In 2010, Sipho Mwanza was at home in the Zambian city of Choma when he saw an advertisement for a job collecting data for the census. He had just finished high school, and he was saving up money to attend university. The job seemed perfect, so he applied, and soon found himself bicycling through rural […]

Change Has a Ripple Effect

Over the next several years, the “Going Beyond – Partnering for a Youth-Led Future” project, a collaboration between Digital Opportunity Trust and the Mastercard Foundation, will equip 300,000 young Africans with the skills and mindset they need to thrive as entrepreneurs in a digital world.  But that kind of generation-altering transformation does not happen overnight. […]