September 17, 2016
West Africa: 7 Habits of Increasingly Profitable Nonprofits
Many nonprofits that seek additional funding navigate a complicated balancing act when providing fee-for-services. Julia Roig, president of PartnersGlobal, which supports local… Read more »
September 16, 2016
Mozambique: GE Mozambique's Departing Leader Shares A Few Valuable Business Insights
The saying “there is no substitute for experience” is one that is often used in the business world because managers with a thorough understanding of their… Read more »
September 14, 2016
Angola: In Angola, GE's Jack Ryan Shares Essential Tips On How To Succeed At Job Interviews
People who have jobs often forget just how difficult it might have been to secure that job, or what it was like to obtain their very first jobs. Read more »
September 08, 2016
Africa: GE's Graduate Engineering Training Programme Is Giving Women The Opportunity To Excel
GE’s offer of best-in-class training for young engineers, known as the Graduate Engineering Training Programme, is open to women and men alike. However, women in technical… Read more »
Algeria: Role Models and 3D Printers Inspire Algerian Teens to Tackle Tech
They may not be well-known sports or film superstars, but two US-based Algerian tech experts generated the same level of excitement among a group of 100 young Algerians. Read more »
Africa: Inside Africa's Floating Hospital
and the Operating Rooms Where the surgeon Dr. Leo Cheng is helping patients in need Read more »
September 06, 2016
Egypt: Calling Egyptian Youth: Let's Build Digital Solutions to Solve Industrial Challenges
The paradox of the Industrial Internet is that it's expected to have a much bigger impact on the economy than the consumer internet, all while doing things that aren't as… Read more »
Egypt: Ministry of Communications & IT and GE Form Strategic Partnership and Launch a Digital Innovation Challenge to Solve Egypt's Industrial Challenges
The challenge is held in cooperation with the Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) The challenge aims to find digital solutions for industrial challenges… Read more »
September 02, 2016
Africa: Africa's Got Engineering Talent
GE's engineering talent is a crucial ingredient in delivering infrastructure and solutions across the world. The Graduate Engineering Training Programme aims to create a top… Read more »
South Africa: In South Africa, Time For Women To Change The Script
In South Africa, August is celebrated as Women's Month, in recognition of over 20,000 women who marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria – the official seat of… Read more »
Africa: $20-Million Women's Health Initiative Kicks Off With Training In Nairobi
By the end of 2015, roughly 99% of the world's maternal deaths had occurred in developing regions with Sub-Saharan Africa accounting for two-thirds of that number. Added to this… Read more »
August 24, 2016
Kenya: Out of the Darkroom, Into the Light: Going Digital in Nairobi
Having clothes ruined by ink and inhaling chemicals for hours in the hospital darkroom used to bother Margaret Njuwe and other radiographers at East Africa's largest referral… Read more »
East Africa: Heading Deep Into Eastern Africa with a Pocket-sized Ultrasound
From its dynamic urban environment to its proximity to Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, Uganda's capital of Kampala has much to offer. Some might say its people are the most… Read more »
August 17, 2016
Africa: GE Celebrates 10 Years of Olympic Games Sponsorship and Surpasses $1.5 Billion in Infrastructure Sales to Host Cities since 2006
Over 1,000 infrastructure projects completed since 2006 with over 180 projects for Rio 2016 GE technology included in all Rio 2016 Olympic Games competition venues GE… Read more »
August 11, 2016
Africa: Benefits Beyond Borders: How ATAG is Furthering the Sustainable Growth of Aviation
Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) issued Aviation: Benefits Beyond Borders last month that focuses on the myriad of benefits that aviation brings to the world today… Read more »
August 06, 2016
Africa: Lights, Power, Passion - Illuminating the Rio Olympic Games
GE infrastructure lets 5 billion people participate in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Read more »
August 02, 2016
Africa: Powering Peak Performance For Rio 2016
Think of the preparation for the Olympic Games as running on twin tracks: one for the athletes and the other for the host city. Both will be subjected to extraordinary demands as… Read more »
August 03, 2016
Ghana: GE Builds Capabilities And Capacity In Ghana Ahead Of Oil And Gas Expansion
Ghana began pumping its first commercial oil in 2010, three years' after the discovery of the Jubilee Field. Now, GE Oil & Gas' new Takoradi services facility in Ghana is… Read more »
July 28, 2016
Africa: How Boeing Planes Helped GE's Aviation Business Take Off
When Bill Boeing opened his Seattle factory in 1916, his first product was a seaplane made from wood and canvas called Bluebill. That biplane could seat a pair of flyers and… Read more »
July 26, 2016
Africa: How the Digital Industrial Trend will Impact Africa
These days, the term “digital industrial” is becoming more and more ubiquitous, as digital technology continues to lead a sea-change throughout the economy,… Read more »
Egypt: GE Completes the First of its Kind Upgrade in the Middle East and Africa at the Nubaria Power Plant in Egypt, Decreasing Fuel Consumption by 3%
GE completed the first of its kind upgrade in the Middle East and Africa on two GE 9FA gas turbines at the Nubaria power plant The upgrade increased the plant's output by 6.7% and… Read more »
Egypt: A Truly Powerful Upgrade in Egypt: More Electricity, Less Fuel, Lower Cost
GE has completed an upgrade at the Nubaria power plant in Egypt that is being implemented for the first time in the Middle East and African, and the third time globally. Read more »
February 25, 2013
Algeria: The Remarkable Story of Fresh Water Access
Every day across the City of Algiers, families turn on their taps and out flows clean, fresh water for drinking, cooking, washing and bathing. This may seem unremarkable, but not… Read more »
July 20, 2016
Algeria: Hamma: Honored for Its Impact on Life in Algiers
To wash your hands, to prepare food for dinner, to quench your thirst … they all take clean water. These and other crucial uses of drinking water are why the Hamma Seawater… Read more »
July 19, 2016
Kenya: Our Generation will See Healthcare in Africa on Par with the Rest of the World
Packed securely inside the boxes in the picture above was a new mammography system, being ferried upstream from the Port of Lamu in Kenya, where I traveled last month, to a small… Read more »