The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Emerging and Frontier markets such as Moldova, Palestine, Madagascar and Timor Leste. Technology such as the internet, social media, smart phones and even smart watches are enabling left-behind countries to leapfrog past traditional models of development and learn anything to build their human and physical capacity for growth. And digital nomads are helping. Al Mina challenges organizations to think outside the box and join visionaries who use these new platforms to create networks of influence and bypass barriers. 

Highlights:

{03:00} Al’s background

{06:25} Examples of frontier economics

{09:30} Early internet and the impact on frontier economics

{13:00} Examples of products or concepts that are promoted on social platforms

{24:00} Cultural issues that become barriers 

Al Mina bio:

Al Mina has collaborated with the IMF, World Bank Group, UNDP, USAID, US embassies , and various diplomatic missions worldwide, as a market entry and economic development consultant. He has consulted with presidents of countries to senior diplomats based in Washington DC, working in economic development in frontier and emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe. He has also been a GS-12 civil servant in the US Federal government, managing ARRA funds initiated by the White House.

A former Peace Corps volunteer in Romania, Al has also authored books on the 4th Industrial revolution and the utilization of social media platforms in global economic development. Currently, he is leading a humanitarian campaign to help emerging and frontier markets build capacity through his Faceconomics concept, a new world market strategy utilizing social media in economic development worldwide.

Connect with Al:

Aldous Mina, faceconomics media

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=faceconomics

E-Mail [email protected]

Website www.PGCgroup.us