Global Shapers: The Impact of Covid 19: The South African 🇿🇦 Global Shapers will be hosting weekly webinars on the impact of COVID-19 in the country, in addition focusing primarily on our different Impact Areas.

The CapeTown Hub invites you to a dialogue on

“The Impact of COVID-19 on African Businesses and the Economy”

And the event  will take place on: Date: ‪1 May 2020‬ Time: ‪18:00‬ – 19:00 (SAST) (GMT+2)

The webinar series will feature panel discussion with:

Matsi Modise: Vice President, SiMODiSA

Catherine Constantinides: Environmentalist, Social Entrepreneur, Activist, Businesswoman.

Emmanuel Agbeko Gamor: President & Founding CEO, Unpacking Africa 4.0 & Edu Kanea

MODERATOR: Aviwe Funani: Monitoring Manager at Waves For Change and Global Shapers Cape Town Hub Curator

Global Shapers Impact of Covid 19

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The Cape Town hub is a network of exceptional individuals who are a diverse group of change-makers with a balance of entrepreneurs and in-organization doers. Therefore, they are connected by a passion to develop the world from the city of Cape Town, South Africa.

Because of the shared vision; together these individuals use their diverse skillsets to run projects  on development and the measurement of their impact is in how they have developed the communities in the city, the country, the continent; additionally, the world through the initiatives they focus on.

As a result, Cape Town projects whilst centralized on a theme of development have a range of focus areas including gender equality, youth empowerment, entrepreneurship and technology for public good. And thus, the Cape Town hub is committed to creating a better world for all.

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Therefore, the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community is a network of young people driving conversations, action and change; and we believe in a world where young people are central to solution building, policy-making and lasting change.