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OPPO Ep3: Tech Table of Opportunities
The Tech Table of OPPOrtunities is brought to you by @OppoSouthAfrica in partnership with 'I AM South African' & PABWA
In this week's episode Yavi Madurai & OPPO's Avashnee Moodley welcome South African Social Media Sensations, Youtuber Thato Fox & @ Tik Tok-ker Chane Grobler to 'The Table' to chat about is a career in being a Social Media Influencer, a behind the scenes look at the lives, and what âworkâ looks like for them
Join us next week, same time - for Ep4 of the Women's Month Tech table.
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Happy Womens Month
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OPPO brings you âThe TECH Table of OPPOrtunitiesâ
A Limited Series Podcast for Womenâs Month, in partnership with 'I AM South African' & PABWA.
Weâre talking "Mobile Tech: Changing the Way we do Business"
Join us at the OPPOrtunity Tech Table where OPPOâs Avashnee Moodley & I AM South African & PABWA's, Yavi Madurai bring entrepreneurs Sibu Mabena and Logan Coleman to chat about how mobile tech has changed the way we do business, & even how to start a business, just with your phone!
Join us next week for Ep3 of the Women's Month Tech table
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OPPO brings you âThe TECH Table of OPPOrtunitiesâ
A Limited Series Podcast for Womenâs Month, in partnership with 'I AM South African' & PABWA.
Weâre talking Women & Their Phones in this first episode.
Join us at the OPPOrtunity Tech Table where OPPOâs Avashnee Moodley & I AM South African & PABWA's, Yavi Madurai bring Digital Natives Deshnie Govender from #THATDESH, and Roseanna Hall from @the_goldenrose - to the table.
They discuss choosing phones over partners, having 2 sides to your phone to match the 2 sides of you â life & work, and even how you can use your phone as âtherapyâ in terms of mental health.
Join us next week for Ep2, Mobile: Changing the way we do business.
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Amb Mehreen Mia Cassimjee is a UN Goodwill Ambassador in Humanitarianism, based in Durban, South Africa.
She has been directly involved in the peace and social cohesion efforts during the unrest and violence plaguing South Africa at the moment.
Large-scale looting, destruction of infrastructure and development, extreme violence was prevalent over a week until the army was deployed.
Now racial tensions are bubbling to the surface as the looting has become violent based on race.
Amb Mehreen describes to us what is really happening on the ground, how the women are taking back the power, how racial cohesion is actually playing out on one end while we are seeing media reports of racial violence, and how the media are perceived to the community at the centre of it, in the conflict-ridden environment.
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Davisha L. Johnson is a dual resident of the US and Ghana as a serial entrepreneur with a passion for African economic development in respect of gender. She has a multifaceted career, as:
CEO of D.L. Johnson Consulting Agency, LLC a US-based political consulting and brand management firm Chief of Staff to Georgia State House Representative Sandra G. Scott Creator of the Ghana Investment Tour focused on SME's and international trade with the black diaspora Creator of the Global Black History Honours which is an annual event celebrating black people globally during black history month in Atlanta, Georgia Global Project Specialist for the Global African Business Association focused on women and rural black underserved communities in the United States and bringing African investment to the Diaspora Former National Director of Development for the National Women in Agriculture Association Founder and President of the Cooperative Executive Management Team, LLC which assists black Farmers globally in agribusiness and Hemp policy domestically and internationallyMs. Johnson studied something completely different to business - she studied architecture at Morris Brown college for two years and then at Southern Polytechnic State University for four years, and then went on to study construction management for four years at University of Houston and received her Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Georgia State University in 2016.
She has only been in politics for a very short time but has advised elected officials from 7 different African countries and has a major focus on women in agribusiness.
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The Generation Equality Forum
The Generation Equality Forum took place in Paris from 30 June â 2 July 2021, the 2nd leg after Mexico City in March earlier this year.
The Forum launched a 5-year action journey to achieve irreversible progress towards gender equality, founded on a series of concrete, ambitious and transformative actions, including $40 Billion in financial commitments, announced by UN Women Executive Director, Africa's very own Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
Charlotte Lobe, South Africa's COO of the Department of International Relations and Co-Operation, joined us on the final day of the historical event, to give us insight into:
what the 3 days of the Forum were about What Generation Equality is and it's context and background (hint: 1995 Beijing Platform for Action - see: https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/csw59/feature-stories) The 4 Action Coalitions + 1 compact South Africa and Kenya's commitments: how do organisations, private sector, and civil society can take it and make it their own, realising the goals of the commitments made.PABWA has endorsed the commitments made by South Africa and Kenya, by putting forward our commitments highlighting specific programs and initiatives that are already in progress - making OUR commitments tangible, and therefore contributing to the goals of the commitments made.
Our challenge to other organisations: show us your commitments!
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The GENERATION EQUALITY FORUM: A ONCE IN A GENERATION OPPORTUNITY
#ActForEqual
The Generation Equality Forum is a global movement for gender equality, convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France.
The Forum brings together governments, corporations, NGOs, youth-led groups and Foundations to secure concrete, ambitious, and transformative commitments for gender equality. These are shaped by the Action Coalitions. They are the worldâs roadmap for gender equality.
COVID-19 has exposed and accelerated existing gender inequalities. The impact on women and girls has been severe and disproportionate. As we begin to recover from the pandemic, we must put gender equality at the heart of that process.
To make this happen, we all need to play our part
Act For Equal! Join Generation Equality and show people everywhere that, together, weâre standing up for gender equality.
The Generation Equality Forum is on from 30 June - 2 July 2021 in Paris
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In this excerpt from an interview with Melissa Fleming - Ma'm Phumzile answers the question on what keeps her up at night, and her call to simply "empower women".
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Being Special Advisor to the Nigerian Honourable Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment - means that Collins Osagie Omokaro is the man that drives the implementation of a range of initiatives within the Nigerian Industrial Revolution Plan to facilitate the implementation of key initiatives, aimed at accelerating the diversification of the Nigerian economy for:
economic growth
job creation
poverty alleviationSome of these initiatives include:
the implementation of the Nigerian Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP)
supporting the growth of MSMEs
accelerating investment in the Nigerian economy
and facilitating trade promotion & establishing 21st century trade/free trade agreementsHe has managed key projects which include:
the Nigeria Sugar Master Plan (SMP) in collaboration with the largest conglomerate companies in Nigeria
cost-differential analysis on Textile and Garment industry competitiveness â using China and Nigeria as case studies
the diversification plan created to boost the growth of revenue from the non-oil sector
and he is Advisor to the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC)In this episode and series we talk about Nigeria's readiness for operationalisation of the AfCFTA, what have been Nigeria's key challenges, but mainly what have been the things they have done and are doing to ensure they maximise benefit for Nigerians in this era of the AfCFTA.
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June 16th, is commemorated annually as the DAY of the AFRICAN CHILD (DAC).
The theme for 2021 is â30 years after the adoption of the Charter: accelerate the implementation of Agenda 2040 for an Africa fit for childrenâ.
The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (Committee), established under Articles 32 and 33 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (the Charter) selected this theme for the commemoration of the DAC in 2021.
Did you know about Agenda 2040?
Agenda 2040
Aspiration 1: The African Childrenâs Charter, as supervised by the African Childrenâs Committee, provides an effective continental framework for advancing childrenâs rights Aspiration 2: An effective child-friendly national legislative, policy and institutional framework is in place in all Member States Aspiration 3: Every childâs birth and other vital statistics are registered Aspiration 4: Every child survives and has a healthy childhood______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yavi Madurai speaks to her daughter Tanith Madurai, a young youth activist fighting for Gender Equality, Education that tells Africa's story from Africa's perspective, and Climate Change, through her organisation GenEqual, which she founded under another name at the age of just 8 years old - about the status of youth on the continent, the challenges, opportunities and what leaders of the current generation should be thinking about when leading and leaving a world for the next generation.
Tanith was recently chosen from 750 applications to be one of 100 Volunteers for AfricaYouthHub Volunteer Program, and she also starts her Harvard Undergraduate International Relations Foreign Policy program, coincidently today - on 'Youth Day'.
In looking forward to starting the program with some of the world's most prolific international leaders, she had this to say,
"In the future thereâs going to be the African continent that will run the world from a workforce perspective. I think the main reason why Iâm doing this, is when Iâm older, to be able to understand and learn how I can position Africa from a foreign policy point of view, understanding that today we are seen as 'less', however by the time I am part of the workforce, technically, the world will be Africanised!" ~ Tanith Madurai
We couldn't have said it better.
Leaders are already here ... waiting their turn to lead and impact.
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Special Advisor to the Nigerian Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, means that Collins Osagie Omokaro is the man that drives the implementation of a range of initiatives within the Nigerian Industrial Revolution Plan to facilitate the implementation of key initiatives, aimed at accelerating the diversification of the Nigerian economy for:
economic growth job creation poverty alleviationSome of these initiatives include:
the implementation of the Nigerian Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP) supporting the growth of MSMEs accelerating investment in the Nigerian economy and facilitating trade promotion & establishing 21st century trade/free trade agreementsHe has managed key projects which include:
the Nigeria Sugar Master Plan (SMP) in collaboration with the largest conglomerate companies in Nigeria cost-differential analysis on Textile and Garment industry competitiveness â using China and Nigeria as case studies the diversification plan created to boost the growth of revenue from the non-oil sector and he is Advisor to the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC)In this episode and series we talk about Nigeria's readiness for operationalisation of the AfCFTA, what have been Nigeria's key challenges, but mainly what have been the things they have done and are doing to ensure they maximise benefit for Nigerians in this era of the AfCFTA.
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Matthew Wilson, Chief Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre - from his offices at the ITC in Geneva speaks to PABWA ED Yavi Madurai - somewhere on the continent "they call it Africa, we call it home'.
*Season 4 has a new format of an on-demand miniseries with volumes: we invite you to the Matthew Wilson miniseries.
Let's listen in as Yavi and Matthew chat though trade, intra-Africa trade, global trade and Africa's diaspora, discussing how to translate what we feel is Africa's time NOW, more than it has ever been before, but how this translates into action and leadership requirements to make it a reality. It's time for the world to feel 'Afrofinity' ... don't you agree?
From Africa, to the World, we're CHANGING the narrative of Africa one podcast at a time, showcasing "African Excellence, African Leadership, and African Inspiration" - from Africa and it's diaspora.
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Matthew Wilson has been the Chief Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre since 2013. He is responsible for providing strategic advice to the Head of the ITC and ensuring the effective outreach, coordination and running of the Office of the Executive Director. Prior to this he served in the Cabinet of Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation where he was responsible for Development issues, Aid for Trade, trade facilitation, trade finance and the relations with the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
Mr. Wilson had previously served as Deputy Aid for Trade Coordinator at the WTO and was a trade negotiator and diplomat for the Government of Barbados for 8 years at the Permanent Mission of Geneva to the United Nations. In this role he was a lead negotiator on trade, labour and human rights matters. He was the inaugural âfriend of the chair â for the Trade Facilitation special and differential negotiations, the Chair of the ACP working group on EPAs and Vice Chair of the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Duties, Vice Chair of the Safeguards Committee and Vice Chair of the Anti-Dumping Committee. He started his career as a Foreign Service Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.
He has a MSC degree in International Development, MSC Post-Graduate degree in International Relations and a Bachelor degree in Psychology and Sociology. He is a Chevening Scholar and an alumni of the University of the West Indies and the University of Bath.
Season 4* started on 26 May 2021
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Matthew Wilson, Chief Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre - from his offices at the ITC in Geneva speaks to PABWA ED Yavi Madurai - somewhere on the continent "they call it Africa, we call it home'.
*Season 4 has a new format of an on-demand miniseries with volumes: we invite you to the Matthew Wilson miniseries.
Let's listen in as Yavi and Matthew chat though trade, intra-Africa trade, global trade and Africa's diaspora, discussing how to translate what we feel is Africa's time NOW, more than it has ever been before, but how this translates into action and leadership requirements to make it a reality. It's time for the world to feel 'Afrofinity' ... don't you agree?
From Africa, to the World, we're CHANGING the narrative of Africa one podcast at a time, showcasing "African Excellence, African Leadership, and African Inspiration" - from Africa and it's diaspora.
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Matthew Wilson has been the Chief Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre since 2013. He is responsible for providing strategic advice to the Head of the ITC and ensuring the effective outreach, coordination and running of the Office of the Executive Director. Prior to this he served in the Cabinet of Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation where he was responsible for Development issues, Aid for Trade, trade facilitation, trade finance and the relations with the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
Mr. Wilson had previously served as Deputy Aid for Trade Coordinator at the WTO and was a trade negotiator and diplomat for the Government of Barbados for 8 years at the Permanent Mission of Geneva to the United Nations. In this role he was a lead negotiator on trade, labour and human rights matters. He was the inaugural âfriend of the chair â for the Trade Facilitation special and differential negotiations, the Chair of the ACP working group on EPAs and Vice Chair of the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Duties, Vice Chair of the Safeguards Committee and Vice Chair of the Anti-Dumping Committee. He started his career as a Foreign Service Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.
He has a MSC degree in International Development, MSC Post-Graduate degree in International Relations and a Bachelor degree in Psychology and Sociology. He is a Chevening Scholar and an alumni of the University of the West Indies and the University of Bath.
Season 4* started on 26 May 2021
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Matthew Wilson, Chief Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre - from his offices at the ITC in Geneva speaks to PABWA ED Yavi Madurai - somewhere on the continent "they call it Africa, we call it home'.
*Season 4 has a new format of an on-demand miniseries with volumes: we invite you to the Matthew Wilson miniseries.
Let's listen in as Yavi and Matthew chat though trade, intra-Africa trade, global trade and Africa's diaspora, discussing how to translate what we feel is Africa's time NOW, more than it has ever been before, but how this translates into action and leadership requirements to make it a reality. It's time for the world to feel 'Afrofinity' ... don't you agree?
From Africa, to the World, we're CHANGING the narrative of Africa one podcast at a time, showcasing "African Excellence, African Leadership, and African Inspiration" - from Africa and it's diaspora.
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Matthew Wilson has been the Chief Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre since 2013. He is responsible for providing strategic advice to the Head of the ITC and ensuring the effective outreach, coordination and running of the Office of the Executive Director. Prior to this he served in the Cabinet of Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation where he was responsible for Development issues, Aid for Trade, trade facilitation, trade finance and the relations with the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
Mr. Wilson had previously served as Deputy Aid for Trade Coordinator at the WTO and was a trade negotiator and diplomat for the Government of Barbados for 8 years at the Permanent Mission of Geneva to the United Nations. In this role he was a lead negotiator on trade, labour and human rights matters. He was the inaugural âfriend of the chair â for the Trade Facilitation special and differential negotiations, the Chair of the ACP working group on EPAs and Vice Chair of the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Duties, Vice Chair of the Safeguards Committee and Vice Chair of the Anti-Dumping Committee. He started his career as a Foreign Service Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.
He has a MSC degree in International Development, MSC Post-Graduate degree in International Relations and a Bachelor degree in Psychology and Sociology. He is a Chevening Scholar and an alumni of the University of the West Indies and the University of Bath.
Season 4* started on 26 May 2021
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Inspired and Dedicated to the Youth of Africa
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I AM Africa Rising.
We are born IN Africa. Nay we are born OF Africa, a soil & hearts so great, Africa is born IN us.
We are born of a continent where wars, (neo) colonialism, & propaganda are plotted to keep us small, because they fear the power if we are to know who we truly are.
We are born in a time of possibility, a time of Ubuntu, a time of "Africa Rising" - beyond all that is against us, but only if we choose the path of 'rising'.
We are Giants in talent & innovation - we need to know this, remember this, feel this, tell our children this - THIS is who we are, so we can rise to who we can become.
We are the youngest people in the world - women, children & men of Africa, with the brightest future, resilient & proud, standing tall, wanting to rise into the Titans we actually are.
WE can be Africa Rising.
Born under the glory of the African sun.
A sun so strong & beautiful, it makes our skin glow with shades of golden brown & bronze, but we let narratives of black and white define who we are & what we become.
We are a generation who have let the seeds of conflict, violence, corruption, treason, & greed grow in our minds & actions. We have let the evil of money, distrust, & selling our children's future be our guiding light, destroying hope & wealth - making us weak, just what they want.
We ARE Africa Rising.
We are called upon today to be warriors to fight this scourge. To fight against the seeds of greed and inhumanity, planted by others & ourselves.
We are called to fight for our children, our morality, the financial inclusion of our women & youth, the development & economic self-sustainability of our people.
We are called to fight today for our unity, our growth in Trade not aid, we are called to fight for our legacy to be warriors of change & prosperity, not thieves of our children's future.
WE must be the ones we were waiting for, the ones our children are waiting for.
WE must ask with truth in our hearts and minds - what do we bring to the title of AFRICAN?
Rise Africa, so we can say we were here!
Rise, so we can say, we raised the bar, we raised the power & the meaning of saying "WE ARE AFRICAN"
WE are Africa Rising
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Iâm a Simon Sinek âstart with whyâ advocate, so... âWHY this book?â
Did we really need another book about leadership or Africa?
Yes, we did.
Because, quite simply, the more people âgetâ the key messaging about African excellence, leadership and inspiration â the better it is for Africa. The more we draw attention to the narrative that has indeed started to change, the more it needs to be harnessed into the essence of the continent, to normalise being proudly African in our views, opinions, perceptions and culture.
This book is a labour of love for so many reasons, but mostly because these are real conversations with real impact.
These unprecedented times have catalysed a need to take a step back to consider who we are, and what it is we desire the most for humanityâs future, as we plot a way forward.
I have noticed something over the last year and a bit: one of the psychological impacts of living in the midst of a global pandemic is similar to living with a life-threatening disease â as a Cancer survivor it feels now that âeveryoneâ around me wants to âleave a legacyâ.
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You'll have to buy the book to find out more!
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This book is not about me â itâs about the conversations I have had, and the take-aways from those conversations.
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If there is one thing that I am constantly annoyed about - it is the lack of recognition and affirmation for the excellence, leadership, and sources of inspiration that come out of the African continent.
There are many organisations working towards changing the narrative of Africa, and the more we have, the more we will still need, in my humble opinion. The media fraternity in Africa is acutely aware of the dynamics of what needs to be corrected, and they fight the good fight on a daily basis. My respect and admiration for these front-line soldiers of the written and spoken word, knows no bounds â a reflection of my belief in the 1839 quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, âThe pen IS mightier than the swordâ.
As the Executive Director of PABWA, I wanted to add my voice to this struggle - inspired and challenged by the icon of feminism and the struggle-stalwart for gender equality: former South African Deputy President, and current UN Women Executive Director, Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, but in a way that I knew how - that meant that I defaulted to technology â and so my podcast âFrom AfRICA To The Worldâ was born.
As we were a new organisation, I truly and honestly wanted advice from these legends, these power-players, the new and bold voices, the game-changers, and the change-makers ⊠so a question to them became an unplanned habit â âwhat advice would you give me?â
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You'll have to buy the book to find out what the advice was ;)
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The podcast audio excerpt of the prologue of the book - based on the podcast ;)
What is "Africa Rising"?
What does it mean?
Why name a book after it?
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