An interview with Katharina Hartwig of StArfrica
I met Katharina Hartwig through linkedin. What i was interested in is to find possible partners in a project that we might be doing in Rwanda. We had a need for local talent especially in Software Development and i thought that the group she works with would be a great place to find the young people with skills. From what i gathered having looked at her profile, she was in a unique position to help find and locate people with thw skills necessary for jobs in tech and other fields for the foreign market. When writing for this and other projects, i tried to pay special attention to the Technology and Innovation Ecosystems of several countries (the big four-Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt). To this we added Rwanda and Uganda by default because this is where we are currently headquartered. Rwanda was interesting because of the involvement of Norrsken and Impact Hub Kigali which we covered after a visit to Rwanda in early January. We see the rise of Rwan...