NetZealous LLC has plans for offering major professional trainings in Africa

FREMONT, USA, 2016-Jun-27 — /EPR Network/ — For far too long a time in its history, Africa had remained shrouded. The age-old stereotype of Africa being home to primitive tribes gave way to colonial exploitation and slavery. Many historians considered Africa the “Dark Continent”, a position that had been taken by its chief exploiter, Europe, during the Middle Ages. Unfortunately, even as colonialism and imperialism made way for independent nation states, Africa was largely seen as being plagued by endemic corruption and swamped by greedy despots and army men who committed genocide of the worst kind on their own people and stripped their countries’ wealth to fill their own coffers.

Africa is not what it is projected as:
All these, however, are gross generalizations for a continent that comprises over 50 nations of varying sizes, resources, languages, ethnicities, tribes and populations. There certainly is more to Africa than internecine tribes and tin pot dictators. Africa has traditionally been, and continues to be a continent whose natural resources are the world’s envy. Perhaps no other continent can match Africa in this respect. If this was the cause for subjugation and enslavement of many of the continent’s countries in the colonial era; there is much that Africa can offer today in terms of another resource: Its people. Of course, the difference lies in one crucial aspect: This current age interaction is not subjugation, but empowerment.

Africa is today moving away from being the continent that it once was to being a region with huge potential for a number of economic activities with abundant investment opportunities. Among the most talked about investments in Africa may be the ones being made by the Chinese in its infrastructure, telecommunications, agriculture and industries sector and on credit and aid, but one major investment that many others can consider is education. A look at this sector offers mouth-watering prospects.

Africa is today one of the world’s largest markets for smartphones. Millions of young men and women buy up smartphones at a rate that could give those in the more advanced economies a run for their money. Today, there is a huge presence of the Net and smartphones in the continent, and many of its youths are using these technologies to learn many of the things they could not while attending traditional schooling.

Bypassing the route taken earlier:
This is a peculiar situation, but is one that comes with enormous promise: Africa, like many other developing regions of the world, was cut off from the dramatic Europe-triggered changes that swept the world. The defining moments that laid the foundations for the world we are in today –the various political, scientific and cultural revolutions that completely changed the world in more dramatic ways than could be imagined – were completely absent in Africa. All these movements, which culminated in the West’s hallmark for a civilized polity –the Rule of Law –was nowhere to be seen in this continent.

Africa was not alone in being isolated from these game-changing movements in Europe and the regions it came into contact with. India, China and most of Asia were, too. As in the case of India and China, the “stages” of material and scientific revolutions, starting with the industrial revolution and graduating to the electronic and then to the Internet revolutions, were amiss for Africa. Yet, the last of these revolutions, the one brought about by the Net, has presented a level playing field for the developing economies to catch up with the rest of the world at a pace that was almost unthinkable earlier.

Like India, China and a few other economies and societies that continue to be labeled as “developing”; Africa too, missed the bus, so to speak, of the earlier stages of the development story. Instead, the Internet has brought about a spike in development to such an extent that economies that missed the earlier stages of development could easily bypass them and still catch up with the leaders and pioneers!

This is the magic of the Internet. One of the foremost reasons for which the Internet continues to be the most powerful invention ever is that it enables education on a grand, assembly line-like mass scale, evening and levelling out the inherent lopsidedness in many of the economies that are catching up with it. Consider the case of India. India’s deeply ingrained caste system prevented many people of the lower social strata from growing to higher levels with every change in the system. But the Internet is so prevalent in its reach that it can neutralize all these differences. It makes no distinction between castes and communities, the groups that were at the forefront of cornering resources earlier. Today, a person of the lower caste can access the Net as easily as one from the highest social class.

Africa and the Internet:
The same goes for Africa. A person can belong to any tribe. He can be from the mainland or the hinterland, but nothing stops his pursuit of education using the Net. This is where the old inequalities are being slowly blurred on account of the advent of an extremely powerful tool that is easily accessible to everyone. When such a tool brings with it the value of education, its impact can only be imagined.

Africa is seen as a mass of land that has millions of people with access to the Net. With the innumerable wonders the Net can do; using it to bring vast populations under its influence is unimaginably easier than earlier, when for something to come from the West, a lot of effort and manipulation was needed, as history has shown.

Huge differences but enough reason for optimism:
So, where does that leave Africa today with relation to the opportunities it offers the rest of the world in terms of just one of the benefits it brings, namely education, seen as the most powerful reliever of Africa’s poverty? The picture it presents has to be seen in context. In the field of professional training, Africa is still way below in the scales: The difference between Africa and North America, the smallest and biggest markets for professional trainings, is too huge to be imagined. It spends 2.5% of what North America does on professional education. If North America takes up close to half the world’s market for professional trainings, Africa makes up one percent.

But these figures are superficial. The spending power and the difference in the value of currencies are enough reasons to make this comparison arbitrary and unreasonable. The fact is that Africa is growing, and it makes sense to invest in a growing economy. Like mentioned earlier, all the factors that could spur growth are present in Africa now, with the advent of the Net. This of course, is not to suggest that investment on professional education in Africa is going to be a cakewalk.

For one, there are still many challenges associated with the bandwidth of the Net. This is very low compared to what is seen in the West or even China and India. Secondly, there is still a lot of resistance from governments that are hesitant to let players invest in professional trainings, or generally on education for that matter. Yet, these challenges can be overcome with time.

Eagerness to start professional trainings in Africa:
As a very seasoned provider of professional trainings in many parts of the world, NetZealous LLC is a very ideally placed organization for making inroads into the professional trainings sector in Africa. Satisha Naraharimurthy, Founder and CEO of NetZealous LLC, believes that the time is ripe for investment in professional education in this continent. The reason, he says is that “while there are bigger challenges of infrastructure and other issues with relation to basic education, the same does not apply to professional education. Lower education has deep social, governmental and emotional connections, while professional trainings can be offered leveraging existing technologies. This is enough reason for optimism. We will be offering lots more to come in the future, as Africa will be a major market for us in the future”.

One seminar coming up, lots more to come:
NetZealous LLC has already concretized plans for organizing a series of seminars in Africa. The first of these will be in Cape Town, South Africa. To be held in July 2016, this seminar will be on the topic, “Why is FDA at my Facility, and What do I do During an Inspection”, and will be presided over by David Dills, a Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Consultant.

“NetZealous LLC started business in 2008, and has earned a reputation of being a premier provider of professional trainings in the regulatory compliance, human resources, healthcare and IT fields. All these have been offered in many parts of the world, such as North America, Asia and South America. With the growth being seen in the African continent, it is all the easier to establish our connections there”, believes Shahanshah Manzoor, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at NetZealous LLC.

The rich experience of having helped a million professionals with very apt trainings and education for their needs and having helped them upgrade themselves in their careers is enough reason to believe that NetZealous LLC can deliver in Africa, as well. It understands that no two markets are alike, especially those that are as varied as the ones it has been serving till now and Africa, but is confident that it can understand the ropes of this continent well soon.

Liju Mathew, Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer at NetZealous LLC believes that Africa has a potential that is yet to be tapped. Its enormous potential for professional trainings makes it a hot spot for NetZealous LLC in the future. While its focus on the present markets will not dilute, the one on Africa is something that it is taking a lot of interest in, he says.

About NetZealous:
NetZealous, a Fremont, CA-registered organization, offers a broad range of high quality regulatory and compliance-related professional trainings and services relating to medical devices, pharmaceutical, FDA, clinical trials, laboratory compliance, biologicals, drugs, food and biotechnology.