The world bank estimates we need about 600 million new jobs to maintain the current global employment rate in the next ten years. The only feasible way of achieving this and more is to embrace youth entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is be a powerful tool to help fight youth unemployment. G-CITI continue to foster an entrepreneurial spirit; we believe it’s vital to develop entrepreneurs whose success will create opportunity for economic participation for more South Africans. Any society with massive youth involvement in entrepreneurship benefits, because, there is employment generation, product innovation, revenue generation, and community rejuvenation.
Therefore G-CITI has embarked on delivering digital services for youth entrepreneurs and empowering entrepreneurs with digital skills and with design thinking skills for the future.