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Microsoft’s game plan: Help today’s youth prepare for tomorrow’s jobs

Event recap: An evolving job market and outdated education system has left millions of youth around the world without the skills or opportunities to get a decent job after graduation. Microsoft wants to change that.

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Gaza Sky Geeks: Supporting tech entrepreneurs in the Gaza Strip

In the isolated Gaza Strip, economic instability is a constant. But Gaza Sky Geeks Laboratory is helping the region capitalize on one of its biggest assets: its technical graduates. We interview its co-founder, Reem Omran.

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As the developing world booms, old multinationals quake

In the next 15 years, the number of people in the consuming class will double and, for the first time ever, emerging markets will have more purchasing power than developed economies combined.

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Modernizing education: You can't find a job in your textbook

New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Tom Friedman talks with Tony Wagner, Harvard education specialist, about the problems associated with throwing graduates from an outdated education system into an evolved job market.

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Rwanda's plan for digital dominance gets a Microsoft boost

Rwanda has the ambitious goal of becoming Africa's digital center. Microsoft4Afrika's expansion into the country is a significant step in that direction.

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Why financial inclusion for youth will raise all economic boats

Groups fighting for financial inclusion and youth employment united in Morocco. Will their findings promote progress?

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Largely Peaceful Kenyan Vote Bolstered by Youth, Technology

The U.S. Institute for Peace interviews a youth peace-activist in Kenya.

Financial Inclusion

Fiji students are about to become the world's savviest savers

Fiji is leading the world in money management education, by exposing almost 200,000 students to savings and budgeting skills starting next month.

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With new envoy, UN turns its eyes to youth issues

Ahmad Alhendawi is a newly appointed envoy, the first of his position, assigned to represent the most critical demographic of our time: youth.

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Tweetable insights on entrepreneurship from Google's Cairo confab

The Giza sun elicited hot topics last Saturday as emerging entrepreneurs and experienced experts shared challenges and strategies for new business in the Middle East and North Africa.