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Digital opportunity and their enablers


Digital opportunity and their enablers

Overview

We identify, quantify and enable economic and social opportunities in the digital economy to connect people to sources of income and service delivery. We work across the enablers required to scale these opportunities inclusively: digital and financial inclusion, digital upskilling and reskilling, inclusive tech-enabled business models, and policy and regulation.

Creating income-generating opportunities at scale is the greatest development imperative of our time, given the wave of young Africans who are entering the labour market across the continent. This process needs to be supported by access to critical services, such as education and healthcare, to build the human capital of the continent and convert this demographic transition into a demographic dividend.

Technology innovation is at the heart of this process, both because it is reshaping the global economy (with significant risks to traditional sources of work and service delivery) and because it is giving rise to new and transformative approaches to delivering work opportunities and critical services.

We are reshaping the traditional arena of economic opportunity by placing digital technology at the centre of the agenda. We specialise in identifying and designing digital work and service delivery opportunities, and working with our partners to implement the enablers required to make them scale inclusively. We take an ecosystemic approach to enabling these opportunities, solving for a range of factors including (1) digital and financial inclusion, (2) building human capital, (3) inclusive tech applications and (4) an enabling policy and regulatory environment, including national strategy formulation and government capacity building.

SADA PLAN TO CREATE 500,000 NEW JOBS IN 10 YEARS

South Africa in the Digital Age (SADA) was an urgent, multi-sectoral, economic strategy development process to charter South African pathways for inclusive growth in the digital age. The process was a joint venture between the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), Genesis Analytics and the Pathways for Prosperity Commission. Read more

Projects

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    Plan for 500,000 new jobs in SA global business sector

    Genesis was contracted by the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) to develop the country’s global business services (GBS) masterplan to would create 500,000 jobs by 2030.

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    Seeking new financial products to target gig workers

    Genesis was commissioned to conduct a market sizing of the gig economy in Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to review the challenges faced by gig workers in these three markets and to propose recommendations on financial products to target this segment.

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    Reimagining higher education in South Africa

    Genesis convened the Reimagining Higher Education initiative with the Motsepe Foundation and BSG to identify concrete EdTech solutions to overcome critical constraints in South Africa’s higher education.

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    Developing a fundraising strategy for a coding-for-kids start-up

    Genesis Analytics’ Centre of Digital Excellence (C0DE) and Financial Services Strategy (FSS) teams partnered with CodeNgwana, an NGO initiative that provides foundational coding lessons to African children, to support its growth objectives over the next three years.

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    Realising Tanzania's growth through digital economy

    Genesis Analytics partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide clear recommendations on the development of Tanzania’s digital and blue economies.

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    Strategy to support Indonesia's digital skills development

    Genesis Analytics’ Centre of Digital Excellence (C0DE) team partnered with Digital Pathways at Oxford University and the SMERU Research Institute to develop a strategy focusing on accelerating digital skills development in Indonesia.

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    Formulating Lesotho’s National Digital Transformation Strategy

    Genesis partnered with Digital Pathways at Oxford University to support the Government of Lesotho to develop a national digital transformation strategy for the country.

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    How does Airbnb support inclusive growth of tourism in South Africa

    Airbnb commissioned Genesis Analytics measure the digital platform's impact on inclusive growth in South Africa.

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    Opportunity to transform public healthcare service delivery in Ghana

    Genesis Analytics partnered with a private foundation, and key stakeholders in the public, private and NGO sectors in Ghana to develop a transformational vision for the use of digital technologies, especially in the north of the country, which suffers serious backlogs in terms of healthcare services and health indicators.

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