Building fintech services at M-KOPA @WEF YGL @TutuFellows
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Mayur Patel retweeted
A couple ago, I left my BD & Strategy job at @GooglePay. The next morning, I was on a flight from New York to Kampala for a @twifintech meetup. – at Manhattan, NY
Many of my favourite ppl - great line-up 💪
So this is happening today! 🥳
Super excited to be joined by @tsakane_ng @Marcelloscherme @Justchichi and to be hosted by the incredible @julieverhage of @fintechtoday_ 🥳
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Mayur Patel retweeted
Let me say this, if Naomi Osaka, or Serena Williams acted in the way Novak Djokovic has acted in the past couple weeks- the tennis association would be sharpening their knives. They hung Osaka out to dry because she missed a couple pressers, meanwhile on Djokovic...(crickets).
Mayur Patel retweeted
If you’re acquiring customers in most emerging markets, the sooner you wake up to the reality that you need offline distribution, the better.
Meet Bankaya, a Mexican fintech that is going offline for customer acquisition | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2022/01/05/me…
Mayur Patel retweeted
We now need to leave Tutu’s moral compass in peace, lowering it with him, and build our own tools for the future—honoring him by taking seriously our generation’s moral and political agency.
foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/27… – at Sandton, South Africa
Mayur Patel retweeted
The @TutuFellows pay homage to their Patron, the late Archbishop @TheDesmondTutu. Hard to believe that he is no longer with us. May his dear soul rest in peace.
alinstitute.org/news/tutu-fe…
Who will own Africa's future unicorns? @kola_aina has been asking this before a single one existed. Congrats @vp_fund on this great news, and for all you've done to pioneer investments in our mission-driven founders long before it became obvious to others.
I am happy to announce the 1st close of our $40m Pan-African fund @vp_fund - to invest in Market Creating Innovations.
Africa tech coming of age. Trends from @kola_aina - 1) local companies crossing continental borders; 2) local engineering talent sought out globally 3) founders/operators reinvesting in others #ATSLDN
One chart that keeps us focused 👀 #ATSLDN @mkopakenya
@mayurhpatel on the realities of internet access in Africa - smartphone access is the exception rather than the rule…
Africa Tech Summit at the London Stock Exchange lnkd.in/ecwNqKZN
Before African startups needed external validation to get local investor interest. That model has now flipped 🙌🏽 - @OdunEweniyi sharing Piggyvest experiences #ATSLDN
Mayur Patel retweeted
So let me get this straight - South Africa has world-class genomics labs and scientists and as a result, they are the ones to discover these new variants.
And then after they do, everyone calls it the South African variant and bans travel from SA
Mayur Patel retweeted
When Black people, Brown people, queer people, poor people demand basic human rights, it is treated as a mortal threat to the nation and met with maximal police repression.
When armed white guys stage an actual fascist coup, the cops let them do it.
Mayur Patel retweeted
This is cowardice and rot. The simplest single-person news blog has exponentially higher standards and accountability for what is shared on their platform than the CEO of the most powerful media platforms in the world. I know some great people at fb. I’m bummed for them.
Mark Zuckerberg says social networks should not be fact-checking political speech: 'People should be able to see what politicians say.' cnb.cx/36GOQbl
Mayur Patel retweeted
Conservative government can form a protective ring around Dominic Cummings but not care homes
Mayur Patel retweeted
So, this morning @bbcworldservice gave us a shoutout for our work that asked 7,700 Somalis for their thoughts on COVID19 (analysing 18k SMS) to shape a national radio/social media campaign. Nice week-end! soundcloud.com/user-31961123… @CGHR_Cambridge @africas_voices @stability_fund
The number of people that have left the US job market since mid-March is greater than the UK’s entire workforce.
Excited that @RestofWorld is now live, covering how tech is reshaping societies across the global. Congrats Sophie, @tamerra_nikol and rest of team.
They are hiring journalism graduates for full-time paid reporting fellowships. Deadline this Fri.
restofworld.org/about/fellow…
“Actively encouraging” people that can’t work from home to go to work, but not use public transport is nonsensical.
Here’s what the challenge looks like for the UK’s 33m workers.
5.6m workers (17%) rely on public transport (trains, tube, buses etc) for their daily commute 1/7
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BAME worker commutes are on average 20% longer than white workers (TUC data).
These households will be disproportionately worse-off from reduced public transport capacity and increasing calls to get back to work 6/7
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