Client Projects: Practical Learning Application

2017 WEEK 4

During our time in Dar es Salaam, we worked on two client projects with our colleagues in the Tanzanian Student Consulting Group. These projects were undertaken for SomaApps and ClickPesa, two of the city’s exciting start-ups. It was interesting for us in ISCG to work on diverse projects with such a local flavour.

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Arrival: First Steps

2017 WEEK 1 

‘Business in Africa’ was the title of a conference I attended in UCD a few months ago. Writing from Tanzania’s largest city, the bustling Dar-es-Salaam, I can’t help but feel that I should have scribbled down a few more notes…

I entered final year last September completely ignorant of Project Seed, ISCG’s effort to establish self-sustaining peer consulting groups around the globe. In the months since, I was captured by the initiative but it is only this week, midway through our first workshop with bright, passionate and ambitious local students that I really understood what an extraordinary initiative it is.

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Activating Students Skills Abroad

Every summer, many students around the world struggle with the conflict of using their break to complete internships and developing their professional skillsets, or travelling abroad and enjoying their time off.  Tara O'Carroll, with the help of some brotherly advice, has figured out how to do both...

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