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For leadership of jobtech platforms in Africa, to join a network of leading entrepreneurs creating jobs across the continent. You’ll join a peer network of like-minded entrepreneurs, gain access to resources and funding opportunities, and play a role in setting the agenda for jobtech in Africa.
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For operators in jobtech platforms, investors/funders, entrepreneur support organizations, researchers, policymakers, support organizations, and anyone interested in jobtech. You’ll get a monthly newsletter, invites to events and access to resources and opportunities.
Impact
We Care About Making Jobtech
Viable & Scalable
Build strong platform businesses that create more jobs for young people.
Inclusive
Platforms reach more vulnerable & excluded groups, particularly women.
Impactful
Platforms enable users to do quality work that offers enhanced incomes, work security, learning, and meaningfulness.
Learn more about support available to jobtech platforms through our acceleration activities and apply
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What Is Jobtech?
‘Jobtech’ refers to digital platforms which connect people to work opportunities that build livelihoods. You can get more detail here.
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Our News & Announcements
The latest news and insights on jobtech in Africa. If you’re interested in writing a blog, please contact us.
Afriwork’s intuitive job board: Riding Ethiopia’s digital wave to bridge information gaps, increasing job opportunities
By Wairimu Gitahi The success rate of job boards in Sub-Saharan Africa varies, but they often struggle to effectively connect job seekers to opportunities at scale, or to achieve business model viability. This is largely because job boards typically operate within...
Jobtech Alliance: Gender Strategy
By: Manan Sharma Gender and Jobtech in Africa Women’s involvement and success on jobtech platforms presents a pathway to economic empowerment and better quality of life across sub-Saharan Africa. Globally, women are more actively engaged in online platform work than...
What is ‘a job’? Pt 2: Lessons from the data
By Jared Adema and Chris Maclay We explained how we chose to ‘count jobs’ based on:* Inclusion criteria: the minimum standards for a platform to consider a job as ‘created’ or ‘improved’.* Exclusion criteria: While the above helps us to define what is ‘in’, we...