In sharing their know-how, she added, "they encouraged us to undertake our own culinary adventures, and American kitchens have never been the same since.
What the World Bank describes as possibly the biggest challenge of the 21st century is also a giant business opportunity for those ready to share their know-how.
In return for the cash they receive, foreigners are expected to share their know-how by, for instance, coaching local entrepreneurs and speaking at events.
At Stephenson Railway Museum in North Tyneside, for example, a group of dedicated volunteers – mostly retired rail workers – can put their skills to good use and share their know-how with the public, while also having the opportunity to meet up regularly with people who share their interests.
But what if we could turn the migration around—just for a couple of months at a time and loan out talent who've built successful businesses here to share their know-how and work alongside their technologist peers in emerging markets?
I've seen how women in Silicon Valley, for example, are sharing their technology expertise with women in the Middle East; how top women in Fortune 500 companies are providing business training to women in the developing world; and how others have shared their know-how with women entrepreneurs in Latin America, the Caribbean and throughout Africa.
As part of the Food Africa program, they will work with UNDP and new partners like the Sahara Group and the Nigerian government to resolve issues linked to food insecurity and malnutrition and share their know-how in increasing crop life, and building more sustainable resilient and inclusive food systems.
On the platform of IIBM, the scientists share their know-how and research experiences on processing the complexity and volume of experimental data from next generation sequencing and mass spectrometry technologies.
Krisztina Tora: there is a need for global shared learning opportunities for social entrepreneurs – countries across the world are keen on sharing learning, know how, tools and methods, to "shorten their learning curves" and build stronger support ecosystems locally.
The companies sharing their data do not always know how much personal information can be inferred from the analysis of such large datasets, and this has led, so far in other cases than mobile phone data, to a few scandals in the recent years [187, 188].
They then told me to use their preferred name of Sam, which they hadn't shared because they "never know how people will react".
