Scheme to train young entrepreneurs to extend across Africa and Middle East

Simon Harding
3rd July 2009

A programme for young entrepreneurs run by the technology company HP in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) is being extended across Africa and the Middle East, according to businessintelligence.com. The Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT programme (GET-IT) teaches young graduates and unemployed youths the skills they need to set up and run their own businesses. GET-IT will now dispense lessons in IT, finance, management and marketing in 18 new centres across Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Morocco, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, bringing the total number of African and Middle Eastern GET-IT centres to 33.

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