Lagos Startup Week 2022 will be held at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria Olumide Olayinka, conference Organizer of LSW revealed this today.
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November 10, 2017
Instead of finishing his degree in IT engineering at Damascus University, 25-year-old Ayham fled Syria with his family to Lebanon in 2012. At first, he worked on a banana plantation, then as a graphic designer. With the help of a scholarship that covered half his tuition, he finally finished a degree in computer science at the Lebanese International University. But rather than pay for a printed diploma, Ayham is using his income as a software developer to launch an artificial-intelligence coding platform.
Examples like Ayham’s are rarely discussed in Lebanon, where Syrian refugees are often depicted as a burden on the country’s infrastructure and labor market. But the reality is more complex. High unemployment rates had been a feature of labor markets in the region even before the start of the Syrian Civil War, and recent data suggests that the resulting refugee crisis has had a positive impact on job creation. An IRC report l