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	Podcast:		TED Talks Daily
	Episode:		The age-old sharing economies of Africa -- and why we should scale them \| Robert Neuwirth
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:09:14
	Publish Date:		2018-05-17 09:38:55
	Description:		From rides to homes and beyond, we're sharing everything these days, with the help of digital tools. But as modern and high-tech as the sharing economy seems, it's been alive in Africa for centuries, according to author Robert Neuwirth. He shares fascinating examples -- like apprenticeships that work like locally generated venture capital and systems for allocating scarce water -- and says that if we can propagate and scale these models, they could help communities thrive from the bottom up.
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