The Exchange: Covid-19 & beyond: Recent Episodes
The Exchange: COVID-19 & Beyond
In light of the current pandemic ravaging the globe, the American Business Council and African Venture Philanthropy Alliance will be sharing their perspectives on COVID-19. The interviews on the Podcast Show called: The Exchange: COVID-19 and Beyond will feature guest speakers representing various sectors being impacted and specific emphasis on experts within the Healthcare Sector across Africa. The goals are to foster relationships between public, private and social sectors across Africa; promote Social Impact Investing via innovative solutions being developed, which are scalable and replicable during and post-COVID-19 and share inspirational stories.
This podcast is brought to you by the American Business Council and the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance.
In this episode, a consortium made up of 4 impact investors share their goals for the Covid-19 impact consortium. It is intended to establish a coordinated mechanism for a rapid response in crisis management, and strengthen the capacity of impact enterprises, Nigerian impact investors, philanthropy and others in emergency management. The guests include, Innocent Chukwuma of Ford Foundation, Christian Jahn of iBAN, Ana Vinambres of GIZ-NICOP and Maria Glover of Impact Investors Foundations.
In this 6th episode, Ibrahim Mohammed, General Manager Machines at Mantrac Nigeria shares how mechanization has changed over the years, how they have adjusted to the to the new tools (AI, IoT), and how mechanization will drive economic growth. Guest Co-Host, Vince Onyejeli, the West African Lead Director on Infrastructure at KPMG, a multinational Professional Services firm, gives his perspective on the future of work and how businesses in Africa will adapt especially in the age of the fourth industrial revolution. This session was recorded on the 18th of July, 2020.
In this episode, Juliet Anammah the Chairwoman, Nigeria & Head of Institutional Affairs, Jumia Group, a Pan African E-commerce platform operating in 11 countries in Africa shares insights on the future of e-commerce in Africa and the opportunities it portends from the AfCFTA -an African Intra trade platform to improve trade within Africa. This episode is powered by Mantrac Nigeria.
Here our guests Terry Akagha, a Nigerian based in the Uk, Hadeeqa Guli Raza from Pakistan, Charles Aborisade and Nadia Colbert from the United States of America share their stories and perspectives of the pandemic - how they are shaping their societies and what they see changing globally post COVID-19.
This is produced by Paul Olele and Joseph Ishie and, Scripted by Joseph Abiagom This session was recorded on the 23rd of May, 2020.
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Our guest, Fola Laoye of Health Markets Africa discusses with the Co-hosts on how to attract investors into the healthcare sector, Universal health coverage and the need to have more COVID-19 tests done.