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Africa

Africa, humanity's beautiful cradle, a "Take Two" on China's billion person rise. Not merely a developing economy, but a re-emergent civilization. Reshaping the world again, though faster: Africa will soon surpass China in total population, and within one generation have three times its youth population. Zoom.

Just as China's youth spearheaded its transformation from techno backwater to Cyber power house, so will Africa's young techpreuers lead the transformation of Africa.

China’s rise was spearheaded by young “techpreneurs” transforming their country from an informatics wasteland of a few miles of copper wire linking old analogue devices, to a burgeoning Internet powerhouse.

Today, Africa's youth have at there disposal even more transformative and accessible technologies than did the Chinese in the early days of dot com. Cloud, IoT, Big Data, the open source revolution. Applying these tools in innovative new models that meet real pain points, as MPesa has helped "bank the the unbanked", will make possible opportunities that can shapeshift Africa and the world.

This potential will not be realized without much effort. Yang Brothers looks to catalyse this process through applying the Yang Brothers vision of Connect, Create, Change.

Mission

Africa clearly has enormous untapped potential. Africa also faces a range of political, economic and social challenges to realizing that potential. Above all the private sector needs to lead the way in promoting African entrepreneurship as the only effective means of overcoming the systemic barriers to progress that other regional initiatives based on more traditional relationships and organizational models, have hitherto relied upon. These are, on their own, not going to enable Africa to break through. To achieve this breakthrough in promoting Entrepreneurship, the private sector needs to play the leading role.

Our mission is to promote the development of African entrepreneurship to power the re-emergence of Africa as a leading global economy.

Pan African Entrepreneurship Program (PEP)

PEP will be the focal point of Entrepreneurship Promotion in Africa. It will bring together public, academic, media, and private sector initiatives. It will foster PPPs, Public Private Partnerships, that all work towards the common goal of achieving the Africa Leap Frog and economic breakthrough, through the realization of a Pan African consciousness and approach to entrepreneurship.

PEP partnerships and initiatives will include top down (Government initiated/supported) and bottom up (Private and education sector). The PEP will act as the hub and flash point, bringing together leaders across sectors to share experiences and experiment and create new approaches, to shed positive attention both from government as well as media and market analysts, recognize and reward achievements, and finally provide new modalities for the funding and acceleration of development of African companies. PEP initiatives, PEP talks, PEP awards, and ultimately PEP Fund and PEP Enterprises. The partnerships would be drawn from four areas (with some further description attached below this note) Government, Industry, Finance, Education. A PEP Advisory board with leaders from each of these domains would guide us.

Four Categories of PEP Partners

1. PEP Government Patrons
First and foremost to most effectively leverage the support of Government leaders in leading African economies, with initial focus on East African synergies (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia), as well as key players/innovation flash points in other regions (Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Egypt). This could include collaborations with regional and sub regional bodies, as well as national ICT and Industry development agencies.

2. PEP Co-promotion Partners
These include primarily Existing Tech Zones, Incubators and African Entrepreneurship Programs. Some existing initiatives that we can partner with, or at least could learn from include:

3. PEP Financial partners
This includes the range of funds and promotion programs for entrepreneurs:

4. PEP Education and Training Partners
Training/Capacity building in both the business and technology skill aspects vital to entrepreneurship

Yang Brothers International

As a “Change Agent” bridging West, East and Africa , Yang Brothers International will combine the Technology Development, Advisory and Investment resources of Yang Brothers, with a select group of strategic investors from Asia, Africa and America, to realize our vision and fulfil our mission in Africa, and develop a leading platform to catalyse change and accelerate business in these areas:

With its root in technology innovation, Yang Brothers International are engaging in the following activities in Africa:

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