Businessman Andile Ngcaba calls on African continent to build, nurture tech skills if it is to compete with global counterparts. innovations TechSkills EmergingTech
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On what Africa can learn from Silicon Valley, he said: “My view is that there is a lot that is happening on the continent. We need to uplift talent and expose Africa’s talent to the global tech ecosystems.” “This is because when you build something and put it on the internet or on a global platform, it doesn’t matter where you are because that product can be consumed by people anywhere in the world.”
“Even for myself, for the things that I do, it’s something that I have been involved in for many years. It’s not something that I stumbled upon yesterday. I’ve been in this industry from the late 1970s, but I still have a lot to learn from other people. “People in Silicon Valley live and breathe tech in the true sense of the words. In Silicon Valley, innovation is almost like a religion. There, people come from all over the world, and they will be looking to innovate something – they are passionate about it and they know they will meet somebody from, for example, Bangalore or from Lagos.
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