Startup Culture from North to South and back - and why I do what I do
If it's still there, alive and kicking after you've left, you might have been a part of creating something sustainable.
That's what I thought when I was beaming with pride earlier this week attending Investing and partnering with African Innovators in Helsinki, Finland. I saw my previous colleagues implement an event idea I had been a part of conceptualizing and it went brilliantly.
Ordinary women, extraordinary resilience
Yesterday I attended an event at the Southbank Centre during which Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton discussed their newly released book, The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience, interviewed by Mary Beard. My interest in the book piqued since I had recently worked on a project where we at SAIS Programme together with Hivos Southern Africa aimed to understand the female experience in technology entrepreneurship in Southern Africa. I was curious to learn who the 100 women Rodham Clinton and Clinton had selected for their work were and if any African women had made the cut – but to be honest I was looking for some personal inspiration, too.