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Platform Economies have often been touted to be the saviours of the new world of work. Offering flexibility, ease of payment and so much more. 

The reality however, is a bit different from that. 

Researcher. Dr Budu and digital driver, Elizabeth, join me to discuss these issues and more. 

Sat with two of Ghana's pioneers of the podcasting space, Donald Aryee and Cyril Afeku, cofounders of @thegoldcoastreport to talk openly about podcasting in Ghana. 

We touched on financing, gear, revenue, platforms and more. 

Three guests from diverse backgrounds joined me to discuss value chains and how paying attention to them could propel your business to the next level. 

According to my guests, a lot of technology entrepreneurs do not pay attention to value chains as integral parts of their business. They see it as a function of procurement. 

Take a listen and let me know what you think.  

E-sports is a multi-million dollar industry globally. Over 300 million stream content around E-sports. But, why is it such a big deal? Why should Ghanaians pay attention to it. 

I sat with the leadership of the E-Sports Association of Ghana to talk through this. 

Enjoy. 

Automation of processes is so commonplace in our daily life that often, we tend to ignore it. 

In workplaces, a lot of people sometimes do not even know which part of their processes are automated. 

But is that all there is to it?

Just a swanky-new-digital-age-must-have?

Check out this week's show for more. 

Online platforms play an increasingly important role in today’s digital economy. One example of the growing relevance of the platform economy are online labour markets. These two-sided platform marketplaces allow buyers and sellers of online mediated work to connect around the globe and transact tasks in various occupations, such as graphic design, translation work, or software development.

Platform labour markets deliver value to customers and provide economic opportunities for suppliers. These digital markets also generate substantial economic benefits for the platforms themselves and they introduce novel and often precarious forms of work and economic interaction.

Two broad conversations were had in this episode:

1. How can marketable and sustainable skills be identified and tracked that allow online platform workers in local environments to participate and excel in the global online labour market?

2. How can online labour platforms be regulated and managed to improve worker protection and platform infrastructure to enable sustainable and decent work opportunities?

In the first of this series, we speak to founder of eCampus, a web and mobile based online teaching and learning (EdTech) platform, Cecil Nutakor as he opens shop in Dakar, Senegal. 

He shares lessons on what he learnt on the journey of expanding his business into new territories and some harsh realities he has had to deal with. 

Enjoy.

The global creator economy is said to be worth over $100 billion, and Africans are mostly shut out of it. 

How do we gain a foothold in that space?

Brian shares some thoughts on that in this week's episode of the show. 

Enjoy

Joe is such an unassuming guy. However, he knows his stuff and that is what we enjoyed when he joined the show this week. 

Such great insight from both a personal and professional level on what Marketing Technology as a field of study and work actually means.

Very practical knowledge shared and very open about the details of what a job role in MarkTech actually means. 

Enjoy.