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Government of Japan and the Austrian Government to Fund Fashionomics Africa Digital Marketplace and Entrepreneurship & Innovation Lab (eLab) Programs

FAPA, of which the Government of Japan is a major donor, along with the Austrian Government and the African Development Bank, will contribute $923,570 and $988,202 to finance the Bank’s Fashionomics Africa Digital Marketplace and Entrepreneurship & Innovation Lab (eLab) programs, respectively. Both programs form key components of the Bank’s Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy, which invests in high-growth sectors…

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September 25, 2018

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Africa, African youths, agribusiness, Agribusiness partnership, agriculture, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Côte d’Ivoire, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, FAPA, Farmers, fertilizer, Fund for African Private Sector Assistance, Ghana, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investments, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, Mozambique, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Sustainable agriculture, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, unemployed youths, value chains, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young farmers, young voices, youth, Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition, Youths
Meet Finalists of the 2018 AWIEF Awards

The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has officially announced the finalists for AWIEF Awards 2018. The aim of the AWIEF Awards is to promote excellence in entrepreneurship and innovation amongst women-owned businesses in all sectors and across the 54 African countries. Forty (40) women founders and entrepreneurs have been selected as finalists, from twelve…

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September 24, 2018

Events

women and girls
Meet the Nominees of the 2018 International Children’s Peace Prize

The prestigious prize is awarded annually to a child who fights courageously to promote the rights of the child. The International Children’s Peace Prize has become a global phenomenon. In 2018, children from no fewer than 45 countries were put forward as nominees. Out of the 121 children nominated, most hail from Kenya (12) and…

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September 24, 2018

Events

Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, award, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, change agent, children’s rights, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, International Children’s Peace Prize, KidsRights Youngsters, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mary Olusoga, my voice matters, Nigeria, Peace Prize, prize winner, program, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths
Research Project at Stanford Becomes Thriving Startup – Adia Sowho, Managing Director of Mines Nigeria Speaks to The AWP Network

Ekechi Nwokah and Kunle Olukotun founded Mines in 2014. At the time, they were living in Palo Alto where they met for the first time at a mutual friend’s house. Nwokah and Olukotun share similar backgrounds. They grew up in Nigeria and studied computer science while at university. Naturally they clicked and began to discuss…

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September 17, 2018

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

access, Adia Sowho, Afghanistan, Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, artificial intelligence, awards, AWP Network, Bank of Industry, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, computer science, credit, credit risk, culture, customers, Data, datasets, development, education, Ekechi Nwokah, Emerging Markets, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, financial access, financials, fintech startup, First Ally Capital, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kunle Olukotun, Lagos, leadership, Machine Learning, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mines, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, NYCA partners, Persistent Capital, program, progress, research project, Sahara Investments, Singularity Investments, small business, solutions, South Africa, South America, SouthEast Asia, Stanford, strategy, support, sustainability, talent acquisition, technology, technology leadership, The AWP Network, The Rise Fund, TPG Growth, United States, Velocity Capital, Western technology Investments, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, women executives, X/Seed Capital, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths
Attend: Africa Fintech Summit

The Africa Fintech Summit gathers innovators, investors, policy makers and other key stakeholders in the Fintech sector to discuss technologies transforming finance on the continent, debate regulatory policies, compare best practices, and forge new ventures. The two-day event will feature investor missions from the US, UK, and UAE, an Alpha Expo featuring the most exciting startups…

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September 17, 2018

Business

Africa, Africa Fintech, African fintech entrepreneurs, African startup, African startup ecosystem, African youths, Awamo, awards, AWP Network, Benin, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, conference, Developers, development, EcoBank, Ecobank Africa Fintech Prize, Ecobank fintech challenge, Ecobank Fintech Fellow, Ecobank Fintech Fellowship, Ecobank Group, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Eversend, FinTech, fintech solutions, France, Germany, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Innovators, Inspiration, InvestED, Investors, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, Litee, Lome, Lypa, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, MojiPay, my voice matters, Nala, Nigeria, pan-African, policymakers, prizes, program, progress, Secapay, SESO Global, Sierra Leone, small business, software developers, solutions, South Africa, startups, strategy, support, sustainability, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, Togo, ventures, Virtual Identity, Wallet.ng, women, women and girls, women developers, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths
Introducing the 15 Companies Accepted into Facebook’s Accelerator Program in Lagos

The teams went through an intensive 1-week bootcamp between the 27th and 31st of August 2018 and have now kicked off their six-month journey to build, modify and optimize their value-driven products. The selected teams will receive up to $20K in equity free-funding, partner credits, mentorship, technical and business support from Facebook and CcHUB. RoadPreppers: Lara.ng is a…

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September 16, 2018

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Africa, Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, African Engineers, African Innovation, African Innovation Foundation, African youths, AI Commons, apps, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, Chiniki Guard, civil and computing to biomedical, collaboration, competition, Cycles, development, economic empowerment, education, electronic engineering., Engineering, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Gricd Agroservices, growth, idea, Innovation, Innovation Prize for Africa, Innovators, Inspiration, Insyt, Internet.org Innovation Challenge in Africa, Lagos, leadership, making a difference, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mechanical, Mining, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, oil and gas, online services, Plant Doctor, Prize, program, progress, Project Move, Quadron Studios, RoadPreppers, SayPeace, small business, Smart Electricity, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Team Kanji, technology, The AWP Network, Treplabs, Up NEPA;, Vetsark, website, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth
African Innovation Foundation (AIF) Announces the 10 Finalists for the Innovation Prize for Africa

The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) has announced the top 10 finalists for its prestigious 2018 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA). This year’s call for applications with its theme “African innovation: Investing in Inclusive Innovation Ecosystems” attracted more than 3 000 applications from 52 African countries. Building on the AIF mandate, submissions this year demonstrate significant breakthroughs in ICT,…

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September 14, 2018

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Africa, Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, African Engineers, African Innovation, African Innovation Foundation, African youths, apps, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, civil and computing to biomedical, collaboration, competition, development, economic empowerment, education, electronic engineering., Engineering, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Innovation Prize for Africa, Innovators, Inspiration, Internet.org Innovation Challenge in Africa, Lagos, leadership, making a difference, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mechanical, Mining, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, oil and gas, online services, Prize, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, website, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths
25 Emerging Women-Owned Companies Accepted for the AWIEF Growth Accelerator Program

25 early-growth-stage South African women entrepreneurs, from a variety of sectors have been selected to jump-start their growth with this year’s AWIEF Growth Accelerator program sponsored by Nedbank. The 2018 AWIEF Growth Accelerator, with its first 25 participants, is implemented as a build-up program that will culminate at the 2018 AWIEF Conference, Exhibition and Awards event set to…

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September 12, 2018

Events
Apply for Pitched Nigeria and Win a $10,000 Grant

Are you creating a business or running an early-stage company? Pitched addresses two gaps in emerging markets: access to capital and startup quality. While Pitched supplies prize money to its winners, the organization develops startup quality so that founders are more likely to thrive on their own. At the same time, increasing startup quality helps make…

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September 12, 2018

Events

Africa, African girls in technology, African tech, African Women in Technology, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Casablanca, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Demo Africa, development, early-stage, education, Emerging Markets, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investment, investments, Investors, Job creation, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, Morocco, my voice matters, Nigeria, partners, Pitch day, Pitched, program, progress, quality, small business, solutions, South Africa, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths
Attend: DEMO Africa 2018 in Morocco

Over the last six years, the DEMO Africa conference has traveled through Eastern, Western, and Southern Africa, and launched leading African technologies while showcasing the continent’s evolving entrepreneurial ecosystems and startups. DEMO Africa alumni have built successful Pan-African and global businesses, exported the African entrepreneurial culture and raised significant investments for their ventures. The 7th…

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September 10, 2018

Events

Africa, African girls in technology, African tech, African Women in Technology, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Casablanca, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Demo Africa, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investment, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, Morocco, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths