The African Digital Workforce “Innovation needs to be part of your culture. Consumers are transforming faster than we are, and if we dont catch up, we’re in trouble.” Ian Schafer When I was young m…
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The African Digital Workforce
“Innovation needs to be part of your culture. Consumers are transforming faster than we are, and if we dont catch up, we’re in trouble.”
Ian Schafer
When I was young my father asked me, in hind sight what must be one of the most useless questions adults ask children – “What are you going to be when you grow up? (now my father was one of those no nonsense type of father who passionately believed in the power of stjambok to “straighten out crookedness in a boy” so when a question is asked, it must be answered straight or) and so my well-considered answer “lawyer”, in sounded impressive, but to my utmost shock my father said “no! not my child, lawyers are lies and I will not have a lie in my house” Now at that time I didn’t really know what lawyers actually did, but I knew I didn’t want to be a doctor or a teacher, so the next best thing those days – lawyer.
Ever heard this one?
“what do you call a thousand lawyers tied together at the bottom of the sea?”
“A good start”
Oops!
Well I was never going to be a lawyer after that, and yes we have no lawyers in my family, a shame really given how much they charge.
The issue really is, should he have bothered, now that the job market has changed drastically from his time. I asked a young person recently what she wanted to do when she grows up and the reply a fashion blogger. I can just imagine the look on his face if I said that. Yet today, fashion blogging is big. Now I am working as a change consultant, if I said that to him, he would really have taken me off school on the account of madness. In turns out, GoodStarter that in the future we won’t recognize some to the jobs that will be on offer, most of them have not even been invented yet.
Chloe Della Costa in her column 10 New Jobs People Will Have by the Year 2030, writes “In a speech at The American Enterprise Institute, Bill Gates predicted that within just 20 years, many current jobs will be replaced by software automation. Gates emphasized the danger for low-skilled positions in particular, but added “labour demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower.”
Where does that leave us?
Well GoodStarter, check out this out AOL Jobs where they partnered with the agency to determine the high-paying positions we have to look forward to in the future. We will take only the top 5 you can start considering going forward, that either don’t exist yet or will soon see great expansion, compiled by AOL Jobs and Sparks & Honey.
“What are you gonna be when you grow up?”
A bot lobbiest will create fake social media accounts to aid in promoting a client’s business and marketing efforts.
Advertising spend is moving away from TV to the Web, people spend more time on-line then they do watching TV, so as advertising will follow people. GoodStarter if you are interested in advertising, here is an opportunity to start with, I don’t know many bot lobbiests, do you?
The growing virtual currency market will certainly need experts, one of which will be the future currency speculator.
Speculation is the purchase of a good with the hope that it will become more valuable at a future date. Here are currencies already available, it will be awesome to see GoodStarters beginning to play this market. Which of these currencies is going up or down in value?
| Name | Market Cap | Price |
| Bitcoin | 4,754,296,898 | 349.81 |
| Litecoin | 121,860,749 | 3.53 |
| Dogecoin | 20,112,825 | 0.00 |
| Peercoin | 14,882,010 | 0.68 |
| Darkcoin | 11,066,538 | 2.24 |
| Primecoin | 961,543 | 0.12 |
3.Productivity counselors
These counselors will give advice on everything from wellness to time management, in order to enable workers to prove their value to employers.
These days to have a personal trainer or life coach is an “in thing”, so in the future where workers might not be belonging to any particular company or organisation, workers will probably be working for many different companies and providing different services, it would make sense to be surrounded by counsellors for various services or pieces of work you provide.
With the popularity of crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, there’s a growing need for expert advisers to help fundraisers promote their causes.
Have you ever gone to the bank to ask for a start-up business loan? If you have then you will know how it can be daunting. First just getting the banker to understand your concept, and then as if they know all the markets, they tell you it will betoo risky or it won’t work. Hello crowdfunding, the market decides if the product is worth getting to the market, if the market likes it, they will fund it and probably be the first to use it. The entrepreneur doesn’t have to pay the money back, just the promised rewards. So why go to any bank with your business idea?
5.Dis organizer/corporate disruptor
A corporate disruptor will be called upon to shake things up at businesses whose systems and processes have gone stale.
Recently I attended presentation by Sense 2 Solve on Digital Disruption and I observed an interesting conversation between an IT Manager and a Millennial.
This went on for a while, the point is, in the future clients will want to be serviced how they want. And if an IT manager can fail to understand the needs of the future, how much more other managers. Someone will be needed to disrupt legacy processes and “we have always done it like this” mentality of most managers. Could that be you GoodStarter?
Our republic’s economy is still largely driven by mining, with the recent strikes in the sector, much speculation has been branded about replacing miners with robots, they work harder, none stop and they don’t toyi toyi.
This future speculation of course has been to frighten government and unions to curb their demands on wages, better working conditions, etc. So GoodStarter, I thought that this would be a great idea, since I don’t think anyone would necessary choose to work in such conditions given a better choice, so robots would be a swell idea. Provided of course that they are manufactured, programmed and serviced here. All government will need to do is increase mining taxes to look after displaced workers. The threats of robots replacing people are usually from people who in their minds an African will always be disadvantaged. To them Africans will be perpetual labourers and if labourity is taken away from them then it will be all doom and gloom. Really?
You can come to imagine
GoodStarter, depending on your age, if you merely 30 years ago had made this presentation for funding your start-up.
The concept is simple really it is that of a telephone, only you will be able to put in your pocket, it will have a camera, diary, the list of your contacts, music and play videos, a map and you will be to connect to the internet.
Imagine how many people would have looked at you crazy let alone fund you for such a fantasy product. Yet now…..
So what do you thing will be the biggest job in 2030 besides these and how can we start preparing our children to take advantage of it?
Do you have a great idea or perhaps know somebody with a great idea that needs funding to be implemented? Let’s take it to the on-line crowd, visit at www.GoodStarter.co.za to start good as a game changer where you are by submitting and contributing to projects. Let start some digital disruption. Let’s start good you and I!
Let’s start some digital disruption.
Let’s start good you and I!
Mr. Tham
sanqa Mngoma is the Founder and CE of The Good Start Agency (Pty) LTD, home of the crowdfunding website, WWW.GoodStarter.co.za. Thami (for short) is formerly a Change Management Consultant and a Digital Disruption enthusiast and Motivational Content creator and provider. One of his main passions is servant leadership, a topic for his motivational talks. He is inspired by all things people beneficial and believes in individual self-empowerment towards self-efficacy with being of service to others as the most viable option for African economic progress. Mngoma’s 25 year people focused career span includes the “whose who” of the South African financial services carriers, Liberty Life, Standard Bank, Old Mutual’s Short Term Insurer Mutual & Federal. His career history also includes consulting work for business’s such as The Hay Group (now P3 Consulting); Achieve Global, Waymark IT and MF Info Tech among others.
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I have my very own highest potential and I now choose to express and experience it.
Embodying my true abilities and potentials to be all of what I came here to Earth to be is the solution to the crisis I am currently living in.
This is my personal evolution.
I do this by waking up!
I do this by educating myself and becoming ever more discerning in my cho Continue reading
Yes! Now I am Self-UN-limiting My Behaviors
I clearly see the obstacles ahead, and I’m addressing them with open eyes. I’m accountable for my life and my career, and I have what it takes to navigate through this successfully. If I fail, I’ll still wake up tomorrow exactly who I am, the person I absolutely adore, and will have learned something critical.
I am pursuing outcomes that flow organically from my current actions. It’s critical to take bold action toward my visions, in order to create success.
I have developed huge goals and now willing to crush them down into smaller, digestible (but courageous) action steps that I now build on, which leads naturally to the end goal I’m pursuing.
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I’m defining “success” here as achieving what matters most to me, individually and authentically
I’m worth this
Knowing what matters most to me – my priorities, values, concerns, and my mission and purpose.
I know and embrace specifically how I want to use my talents and passions in the world and am committed to living out my visions and now, these visions are about being of service to others.
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“Build the new, don’t just fight the old” Sairee Chahal Sheroes There is in the world today what I call the big Global Digital Disruption game going on and my holy discontent is that once again Afr…
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“Build the new, don’t just fight the old” Sairee Chahal Sheroes
There is in the world today what I call the big Global Digital Disruption game going on and my holy discontent is that once again Africans will be left behind by missing out on the advancement opportunities it presents.
“How you gonna break a man’s leg and laugh he can’t run fast like you?”
Almost in all major modern human developments from the printing press in the 1430’s to the now world digital technology advancements, Africans have been notable by their absence, unless as consumers. No doubt crippled by centuries of slavery, colonization and subjugation the African input into contemporary human advancements has been minimal, but this can change, notwithstanding the past, we can change how we think of ourselves and how we look and approach the world.
“Change the internal script (internal dialogue), change the game”
This post is about challenging ourselves, Africans to change the game and harness the power of this digital disruption otherwise; once again we will remain consumers and miss the real opportunities inherent in technological progress.
Every Great Story Has a beginning
When I was in SUB A (grade 1) generation Millennials (lol), there was a schools sport day, my first ever having entered school at the age of 6 (I passed the arm over the head to the other ear test my mother made me practice over and over again before, school interviewing was easy back then). Each kid was forced to run to see who was talented in running. I wasn’t interested, but the teacher forced me, I ran and to more ultimate humiliation came second last, in front of the entire school. (And the last kid was the obese boy called Ben (no hurt intended)), never had so many people all at once laughed and mocked me. It would have been better if I was number last, no, second from last, I could only beat the fattest kid in school. As you might imagine, this single event would mark me for my entire life, till today. It meant I would grow up to fear being ahead because that day I convinced myself that I couldn’t run, why bother I will lose any way and I will never get ahead. Even when I was older and at high school, I was always the kid that shouts out answers to the rest of the exam room as soon as the invigilator left the room for a while. Why? I had the fear of finishing ahead of the class, you see GoodStarter I had convinced myself that I can’t finish ahead.
I believe this to be one of the biggest challenges we Africans grapple with as a people and a continent. The innate core and fundamental belief that we can finish ahead in human progress, instead of going back to the glory days of Egypt and Maphungubwe, great as they were.
The challenge is what can we do now in the individual corners of our worlds to start re-shaping the human progress narrative, at least some parts to include Africans ahead and thus standing up tall in the affairs of the world and shaping human progress to reflect us?
Technology is the great equalizer, the more things gets better the better things get. How can we make it for us too? This blog is about exploring ideas, inspiring the game changer at heart to start good and start impacting positivity in his/her corner of the world by extracting maximum value from this on-going digital disruption game. We propose that there is more value to be extracted from the internet in general and social media than just as consumers, so consider how much your social media accounts are really worth.
What do we do about starting and getting into the robotics game? (e.g. making and industry of the drone market)
In our next post we explore the digital disruptors and what we can be inspired to do to start doing good and changing this game.
Digital Dare, you can just imagine
I dare say, can we be serious contenders for the first human piloted landing on Mars? (Why not? Why can’t it be captained by Ayanda Mkhize, piloted by Tebogo Mohale, and perhaps your grandchild handling mission communications that night? Imagine the tears in your eyes, If I can see it, so can you, why not?
On that note, let me ask you GoodStarter, after your considered evaluation which African country do you think is most likely to be the first to send its own human spacecraft into orbit and why?
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Let’s start some digital disruption.
Let’s start good you and I!
Mr. Tham
sanqa Mngoma is the Founder and CE of The Good Start Agency (Pty) LTD, home of the crowdfunding website, WWW.GoodStarter.co.za. Thami (for short) is formerly a Change Management Consultant and a Digital Disruption enthusiast and Motivational Content creator and provider. One of his main passions is servant leadership, a topic for his motivational talks. He is inspired by all things people beneficial and believes in individual self-empowerment towards self-efficacy with being of service to others as the most viable option for African economic progress. Mngoma’s 25 year people focused career span includes the “whose who” of the South African financial services carriers, Liberty Life, Standard Bank, Old Mutual’s Short Term Insurer Mutual & Federal. His career history also includes consulting work for business’s such as The Hay Group (now P3 Consulting); Achieve Global, Waymark IT and MF Info Tech among others.
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In the movie The Godfather III, at the meeting of the bosses, Michael Corleone, head of the Mafia commission distributes cheques as “returns” from business operations. All the bosses are mightily pleased with the generous size of the profits as whistles are heard when they open their envelops and then Michael Corleone tells everyone that this concludes their business relations all together. But one of the bosses turns around and says something ‘wow Michael this is very generous indeed but what about the politicians and judges you pay off, we want access to them as well”. Obviously the boss of bosses refuses this request. I suspect this is at the bottom of all this negative news and the threat of a credit rating downgrade. I contend that if Mr. Zuma is as corrupt as he is alleged to be, then he and his alleged corruptors, the Guptas are like small pick pocket tsotsis on the street corner in most townships. Focusing on them is useful so that you do not see the real Mafia that wears expensive suits, chauffeur driven and speaks sophisticated elitist language.
I believe that the economy of the Republic is under attack, mainly from the International Banking Cartel, hence the constant threat of credit rating agencies and we are falling for it like other countries like Jamaica. In fact the similarities between what is happening to the Republic and what happened in Jamaica are so similar one cannot help but be alarmed if not downright scared.
I was having a conversation with one of my pastor friends recently and talking about general things and he mentioned a term I find interesting, you know that verse that says “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you…” Hosea 4:6. What I find was funny for me was him calling this lack of knowledge ‘dedicated ignorance’. I have seen people literally fight you just to stay ignorant. While researching for this blog I came across this gem of a statement
“THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES …”
We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.” Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, “The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book.” We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes &Noble, and Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all. EDOFOLKS.Com
I think that to subscribe this to Africans is grossly inaccurate let alone racist, because it is my observation that even other racial groups are not very good at this, my proof are the sound bite news mainstream media pushes out to the public every single day. I think the general public is deliberately made to be ignorant. Who has the time to read the truth if the news headline is about corrupt politicians and then we quickly move to the latest celebrity bedroom scandal and or the latest sports news. Ilia Xypolia, writing in the London Progressive Journal states in “More than just a game, football as the modern opium of the masses” (no doubt paraphrasing Karl Marx’s religion is the opium of the masses quote, Karl Marx famously argued that religion plays the role of the opium of the masses. It makes them forget the inequality between classes. It acts as a major distraction to their suffering.) articulates this view point very well. We spend more time discussing the latest games of our soccer teams then who and why our government is corrupt beyond the sound bites. We become oblivious to the death of nation states, when I go to a Bafana Bafana game with a South African flag, in full squad regalia and singing the national anthem, I feel I belong to something unique that actually exist. But does it really? The real power lies in brands, more specifically huge corporation who bear no allegiance to no nation and respect no one but capital accumulation by any means necessary.
So while we are focused on small time tsotsis the Mafia guys are ‘eating the real cheese’, thanks to their chief priests, the economists scaring with doom and gloom. This is not just a South African phenomenon nor is it new. Interesting articles that Tony Leon penned out today on Business Day, I suspect he knows more than he lets on, in his opinion piece, titled Gordhan has his work cut out saving SA from the credit junkyard, (by Tony Leon, 01 March 2016, 05:47), he writes “It was both striking and apt that Business Day reserved initial comments on Gordhan’s effort for neither an economist, nor a politician. Instead, the top of the fold honour was given to a rating agency executive, Moody’s senior vice-president Kristen Lindow.” James Carville, political strategist to former US president Bill Clinton, offered an acute observation on the limits of even the most powerful political office relative to the might of outside forces. ” he further states, “When I come back, I want to come back as the bond market because then you can intimidate everyone,” the unorthodox Carville observed in 1993.” The question is, who is the bond market, well let me tell, it’s the name most economist brand about every single day “the international investor” that boogie man we must be all petrified of, reminds of the “swart gevaar”, remember that? These people are so powerful it is laughable to think our government can do much about them, read what else Mr Leon say about the credit rating agencies:
“Twenty years later, in September 2013, economics writer John Kay explored this phenomenon anew in the Financial Times. Writing of past electoral contests in Britain and France, he found the terror of sovereign credit ratings to be as alive then in London and Paris as it had once been in Washington, DC. “There is little doubt,” he wrote, “of the reality of such intimidation.”
The British Conservative Party, in its 2010 election manifesto, listed a series of “economic benchmarks” for the country. Top of the list was its “guarantee to safeguard” the country’s credit rating. In 2011, Kay reported, across in France, the president, Nicolas Sarkozy, told his aides “If France loses its triple A rating, I’m dead”. A few days later, France lost that coveted status, and true to his prediction, a few months later, Sarkozy lost the presidency.”
So if they can force a French president, Nicolas Sarkozy out, how about a so called “third world” president. Mr. Leon knows who the real enemy of the republic is, but like most, he can’t help himself, he ends by putting the blame of economic woes on the restless native none the less.
“If children’s stories like that of Goldilocks hold little appeal to our local power elite, they might prefer to dip into the Bible and reread Matthew 12:25. Its ancient wisdom reminds us anew that “the house divided against itself shall not stand”. I am not by any means absolving them of any responsibility, but am I am saying, if not these ones in government then they will find someone else.
You might think this is a joke, read our former President Mr. Thabo Mbeki’s latest letter and you find a clue as to what could happen if anyone refuses to play ball, even he does not say it directly he writes “Hammarskjold died in a plane crash which has still not been explained. Boutros-Ghali is the only UN Secretary General who served only one term, having been pushed out by the US Government.”
Why? “Thus, according to Dr Kissinger, the issue of “human rights” was used by the Reagan Administration not because these rights were important in themselves but because their projection was “a tool for overthrowing communism…(and) undermin(ing) the Soviet system”.”
You know I envy our kids these days, you know you can’t lie to them anymore, with the advent of smartphone, my 14 year old daughter when I say something to her she does not get, she will be like “dad wait, let me google it” so M’ Southern, do yourself a favour and google the “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” by John Perkins, 2005 and tell me how much choice does our government or any government for that matter has, but to be corrupt.
So the issue is not whether our government or our president is corrupt, the issue is who is doing the corrupting, a foot note on the budget speech “suspension of possible Nuclear deal with Russia”.
This in no way refutes the pervasive corruption in our country, and yet the tsotsi guys with three star okapps are dangerous, but the real thugs wage wars, ask the Syrians and Afghanistanies, (a topic for another time.) So my issue is this, our country is being forced to become what Donald J. Harris, says is debt propelled economy like Jamaica. “ Jamaica’s Debt-Propelled Economy: A Failed Economic Strategy and Its Aftermath.” (Donald J. Harris; Professor Emeritus of Economics’ Stanford University)
We are being systematically made debt slaves, personally I know how this feels like, once you are one, it becomes virtually impossible to get out without a considerable fight. Consider this “About 60 chief executive officers representing industries ranging from banking to mining met with Gordhan for two-and-a-half hours at Nedbank’s offices in Johannesburg” (SA economy: Gordhan holds talks with CEOs business/news / 02 February 2016 at 04:30am), now maybe this is just me being a Zulu man (under Udakwa’kusutha regiment), a State Minister of a Sovereign Republic is called to the offices of a private company “mameshane” really, wait for it, what is agreed “Business has said some tax increases would be palatable, while the government has agreed to look into the sale of state assets as part of an eight-point plan aimed at holding off a rating downgrade in the short term and resuscitating the economy in the long term.”; Gordhan and CEOs talk about economy; by Phakamisa Ndzamela, 16 February 2016, 05:55.
One is left with no doubt who is calling the shorts now. “bye bye democracy, welcome perpetual debt.”
M’Southern, credit rating downgrade crises or not, we are resilient people, we will find a way forward, we don’t need to sell our state assets and our souls in order to line the pockets of international “mashonisas” (loan sharks) in fancy suits and leave debts for our children. The so called international investor will invest in any country even it is run but a cat, as long as they maximize profits or what they fondly call shareholder value. We are smart people we outclassed, outwitted and outplayed the National Party, we can acquire knowledge, we can create our own export led economy.
Themba Wuwe M’Southern
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