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Conversation: Jobs and the Future of Work Beyond Covid-19

On May 14, the Institute held the first of a four-part series conversation on jobs and the future of work in a post-COVID world, featuring Angelo Izama, Brenda Katwesigye and Raymond Mujuni.

COVID-19 has blown away the myth about ‘First’ and ‘Third’ world competence

The “First World” is still far richer than the rest of the planet and may well remain so. But the COVID-19 experience may just trigger new thinking in the “Third World”.

A New Normal?

Before one asks questions about where future jobs will come from, we must ask how efficiently we were executing the jobs that needed to have been done yesterday.

When it comes to Jobs and Work, COVID-19 presents a New Normal

What sets small agile companies apart is how easily they adapt to change, innovate and pivot to support new market conditions. It is no surprise that we have seen digital startups rise as some of the biggest winners during the COVID pandemic.

Heavy

In “Heavy” Rushongoza addresses our fears and anxieties as we stare deep down into the abyss of life in the middle of a corona virus pandemic

Taming Viruses (Is Taming People)

To track truck drivers or capitalize on the crisis to capitalize the political elite’s bank accounts, which way, asks Begumya Rushongoza

Everything is Nothing

While everyone is sulking at the temporary pause to life the corona virus has brought, Rushongoza suggests that in fact “everything” is nothing

Masks and Gloves

In “Masks and Gloves,” Rushongoza asks important questions about Uganda’s response to the corona virus pandemic

Covid-19: How Prepared Are We?

As the world reels from the Covid-19 pandemic, our 2018 YELP Fellow Dr. Prosper Ahimbisibwe asks whether Africa is ready to tackle the flu head-on