Social entrepreneurship and impact investing
Egypt's edtech scene tends to grow in fits and starts, and structured accelerators have become one of the more reliable ways to push it along. The latest example is the third cohort of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship in Egypt, which has just kicked off with 13 selected growth stage startups.
Saudi Arabia's main agency for small businesses is back with another themed week, and the focus sits at an interesting intersection. Monsha'at is leading Social Entrepreneurship Week from 14 to 18 June, drawing more than 44 entities from the public, private and non profit sectors into a single coordinated push.
YouTube raising prices on Premium and Music is the kind of move that looks straightforward in a press release and feels considerably more complicated when the billing notification lands, and for subscribers across MENA where the value case for paid streaming was already a harder sell, the timing raises questions that go beyond what the new monthly rate actually is.
X is reducing payments to clickbait accounts, but the more important question is whether a platform built on engagement-driven revenue can genuinely reward quality content without rethinking the structural incentives that made clickbait the most rational strategy in the first place.
FII Institute launches the Blueprint for Healthy Humanity to promote prevention, screening, and equitable healthcare worldwide amid rising chronic diseases.