Scaling Digital Skills

Impact Amplifier (IA) has been appointed by the World Bank and the Youth Employment Service (YES) to explore new ideas, innovations, and business models in “impact sourcing” – which will deliver scaled digital skills-based jobs for disadvantaged youth in South Africa.

• ‍Crowdsourcing – Impact Amplifier has been conducting a national crowdsourcing campaign across our own and partner networks. Some activities as part of the campaign have included setting up an online survey form, conducting interviews with key stakeholders and thinkers in the digital skills landscape to further explore market gaps, trends, and opportunities.
• ‍Innovation Development – Impact Amplifier is developing the idea sourcing tool and involved in various research and exploratory efforts to compile business cases for scalable mass employment opportunities for youth. The aim is to work toward providing strong business cases for acceleration.
  

August 2023

The project was concluded in early 2022, with investment cases developed for the top 5 innovative businesses that were identified and selected. IA performed a jobs and impact analysis across the innovations, and developed a report for both YES and the World Bank, which was presented to the Presidency of South Africa.  IA's next steps will be to gather progress updates from each business as well as sharing the final outputs from the research conducted.