Tag: Ghana

Game Changers: How Athletes’ Sports Skills Can Help Promote Economic Development in Ghana’s Oil Industry

This study explores how elite athletes’ transferable skills can support economic development in Ghana’s oil industry. With the sector facing a growing skills crisis, the research identifies how competencies gained through high-performance sports—such as teamwork, communication, leadership, strategic planning, decision-making, negotiation, creativity, and emotional intelligence—can help address human-capital shortages in the downstream oil sector. By mapping skill overlap using a visual assessment method and surveying former elite football players now working across major oil-industry roles, the findings show strong alignment between sports-developed abilities and industry requirements. Leveraging these undervalued skills offers a practical pathway to strengthen workforce capacity and advance sustainable economic growth in Ghana’s energy sector.

Caribou Digital Launches New Book, The Platform Livelihoods Project: Research Exploring the Workplaces of the Digital Age in Africa & Indonesia

This pioneering research, conducted in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation explores the pervasive digital workplace landscape in Africa and Indonesia. The research reveals the scale of dependency millions of Africans have on digital marketplaces for their livelihoods, where 27% of Kenyan farmers claim to use Meta (Facebook) to sell information and buy produce. In examining marginalised groups, people with disabilities shared in-depth accounts of challenges faced with their user experience, such as a lack of screen-reading technology for the visually impaired, inhibiting full participation. Caribou Digital calls for better governance and inclusivity for Africa’s digital marketplace to ensure it unlocks its projected reach of $72 billion by 2026.