ENTREPRENEUR: Gavin Weale, founder and CEO of Digify Africa
Transformation award winner focuses on matching young people who lack opportunities with industries that need digital skills
In 2011, Londoner Gavin Weale arrived in Cape Town with a dream, funding, "and a heady dose of saviour complex" to launch the SA edition of the UK youth-run print publication Live Mag. A decade later, he is married to a South African, has a young daughter and is at the helm of Digify Africa, an award-winning digital marketing skills training nonprofit organisation.
You would be hard pressed to find a pan-African free digital skills training organisation that has had an impact on as many young people, across the continent. It has had well over 100,000 trainees — many of whom went from unemployment to positions at agencies or blue chip companies in just a few short months. The balance is highly entrepreneurial, with graduates consulting to a varied list of clients — including Digify Africa itself — who use their skilled alumni network to train other young people in search engine optimisation, social media, content marketing, AdWords and other areas of digital marketing — or to s...
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