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Linking Zambia (ICDL Zambia)
Interesting News off the Zambian Economist website. Take a look
International Computer Driving Licence Zambia, the world’s largest end-user computer skills certification programme, with eight million candidates in 150 countries.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Zambia Needs Enterprise Development Model—Expert
A MALAYSIAN enterprise development expert has said that Zambia needs to come up with a model of enterprise development that combines capitalist and cooperative models in order to promote balanced development.
Daing Ibrahim said in Lusaka last week that Zambia had a chance to develop entrepreneurs and balance the development industry between rural and urban areas.
He said Zambia and Malaysia have a similar socio-economic history and the latter had dedicated to the development of entrepreneurs through a balanced model that incorporated capitalist and cooperative models.
The expert, who coined the model for the Malaysian government said the earlier capitalist model that his government had implemented had not yielded desired results, because it did not promote a balanced development of a cadre of entrepreneurs.
“For quite some time we spent a lot of money to develop entrepreneurs. But we had a problem of sustainability of the entrepreneurs.
“Another problem that we had was that we were developing entrepreneurs individually, and to sustain the existence of the entrepreneurs in the market was problematic, because we had a problem of monitoring them,” he said.
The cooperative model is focused on developing graduate entrepreneurs to feed into operations of identified lead entrepreneurs, who could have the market but were unable to satisfy it.
And University of Zambia (UNZA) senior economics lecturer, Chiselebwe Ng’andwe, said enterprise development in Zambia had been failing because of the lack of commercial support to the cause.
Dr Ng’andwe said financial institutions in Zambia had not been supportive of the development of entrepreneurs because there was little credit going to entrepreneurship development programmes.
He also said there was a strong correlation between education and entrepreneurship development, and hoped the Enterprise Development Centre that UNZA and the University of Malaysia plan to establish could assist in the development of entrepreneurs to feed the industry in Zambia.
WEforum Highlights Day 1 Morning Session
The 19th World Economic Forum on Africa kicked off with highly interactive sessions where leaders are engaged in brain storming discussions in examining the major challenges posed by the global economic crisis.
President Banda’s programme begun with a session entitled ‘Investing in Africa.’
He was accompanied in the session by Commerce Minister, Felix Mutati, Finance Minister, Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane, Bank of Zambia Governor, Dr Caleb Fundanga and the President’s Economic Advisor, Dr Richard Chembe.
Faced with the prospect of a prolonged economic slowdown, leaders in this particular session, among other issues, reassessed the future of their respective economies with the view to defining a new approach to sustainable economic development.
In between the session, President Banda also held a closed door meeting with Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga.
This evening, at a dinner on Zambia, President Banda and his team will present in greater detail the prospects, opportunities and challenges facing Zambia in her developmental process.
The President will lead his ministers, namely Mr. Mutati, Dr Musokotwane, Dr Chituwo, Mr. Mwale and Mr. Konga, in answering questions and clarifying issues from industrialists and investors from around world on what Zambia has to offer in terms of investment.
The Zambian panel will also include BOZ Governor, Dr Fundanga, and the President’s Special Assistant for Economic Affairs, Dr Chembe and other experts.
World Economic Forum on Africa Opens in Cape Town
World Economic Forum on Africa
Cape Town, South Africa, 10-12 June 2009
Implications of the Global Economic Crisis for Africa
Five African leaders, including President Rupiah Banda, will take part in the 19th World Economic Forum on Africa, which starts today in Cape Town, South Africa.
They include South Africa’s new President, Jacob Zuma, who will host the three-day meeting at Cape Town International Conference Centre, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and his Kenyan counterpart, Raila Odinga.
More than 800 participants from 50 countries will participate in the 19th World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town from 10 to 12 June 2009. Jacob Zuma, the new President of South Africa, will host the meeting, where participants will gather to deliberate under the theme Implications of the Global Economic Crisis for Africa. The meeting provides an important platform for world leaders to address the global and regional implications of the crisis and develop a new roadmap for Africa’s future.
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