AWP Network

Making a Difference in the Lives of African Entrepreneurs

Opportunity: Cellulant Nigeria Hiring for Head of Marketing

Cellulant, a well established digital payments provider and one of the 7 companies that make up the underlying e-Payment infrastructure in Nigeria is currently hiring for the role of Head of Marketing. The company is looking for someone with 10 years of experience in the market. Cellulant is tasked with increasing the uptake of e-Commerce,…

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May 15, 2019

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Africa, African girls, African girls in technology, African Women Power Network, African youths, applications, awards, AWP Network, AWP Network. change, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Girls education, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nairobi, Nigeria, program, progress, science, small business, solutions, South Africa, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, techbiz, technology, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Unoma Okorafor, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices
Opportunity: WAAW Foundation is Recruiting for a Business Development Manager

This position is to manage WAAW Foundation fundraising and partnership growth strategies, including business development, sales, and program management for software development projects and STEM training, project planning, management, administrative support to WAAW foundation programs. The Business Development Manager is responsible for the organization’s consistent achievement of its mission and objectives in program development and…

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May 15, 2019

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Africa, African girls, African girls in technology, African Women Power Network, African youths, applications, awards, AWP Network, AWP Network. change, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Girls education, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nairobi, Nigeria, program, progress, science, small business, solutions, South Africa, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, techbiz, technology, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Unoma Okorafor, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices
Opportunity: WAAW Foundation Seeks Executive Director

The WAAW Foundation is a 501(c) non-profit organization whose mission is to empower girls throughout Africa by increasing the pipeline of girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. The WAAW Foundation does the following: provides college scholarships to African girls, organizes STEM Robotics camps and operates STEM outreach and mentoring programs in University campuses across Africa to…

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May 15, 2019

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Africa, African girls, African girls in technology, African Women Power Network, African youths, applications, awards, AWP Network, AWP Network. change, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Girls education, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nairobi, Nigeria, program, progress, science, small business, solutions, South Africa, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, techbiz, technology, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Unoma Okorafor, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth
New marketplace seeks to expand Africa’s financial ecosystem – Introducing Pocket Money

Pocket Money is a digital lending marketplace determined to transform the financial fortunes of borrowers in Africa by pioneering a ‘cyclic’ lending system that will provide a breath of fresh air even to potential borrowers who had previously been ‘rejected’ by lenders within Pocket Money’s ecosystem. To address this challenge, Pocket Money has come up…

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May 15, 2019

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

access, Africa, AWP, AWP Network, borrowers, change, ecosystem, financial ecosystem, financial inclusion, lenders, lending platform, lending sector, loans, marketplace, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, payment system, Pocket Money, progress, South Africa, Stefano Virgili, women, women entrepreneurs, Zambia
Global partners announce $61.8 million allocation to boost African Development Bank initiative for women entrepreneurs

The Governing Committee of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) has approved a funding allocation of $61.8 million for the African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) program. We-Fi is a partnership among 14 donor governments, eight multilateral development banks, and other public and private sector stakeholders, established in October 2017…

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May 15, 2019

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

African Development Bank, African women power, AWP Network, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, change, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, development, Ethiopia, Finance, Global powers, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, progress, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Apply: Wennovation Hub Campus2Market Business Program

Campus2Market 2.0 is aimed at availing young techpreneurs who are undergraduates in tertiary institutions the opportunity to present, discuss, review and evaluate their business ideas with some of the brightest minds in Nigeria’s tech ecosystem. The selection of top ideas will be conducted in house after which the top ten participants will proceed to a week…

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May 15, 2019

Events

AWP Network, Campus2Market, girls, Lagos, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, Techpreneurs, The AWP Network, Wennovation Hub, women, Youths
Apply: €100,000 Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Award

The 2019 Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards Program, in partnership with The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership is now open. The awards will celebrate inspirational young people from all over the world with existing initiatives, products or services that are tackling some of the world’s social and environmental issues. This year’s entries will focus…

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May 8, 2019

Events

accessibility, Africa, African youths, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ashoka, award, awards, AWP Network, Bilikiss Adebiyi, Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, Bilikiss Kola-Abiola, business, Business Solutions, business support, Case Foundation, CChub, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, creators, designers, developing countries, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Environment, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Innovators, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Pitch For Lagos competition, product design, program, progress, Renewable Energy, small business, solutions, South Africa, Steve Case, strategy, support, sustainability, Sustainia Award, technology, The AWP Network, Unilever, Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, waste, WeCyclers, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth
Apply: Andza Investment and Acceleration Program for South African Entrepreneurs

The SA Innovation Summit, Africa’s largest start-up event, has launched ANDZA, a competition which will offer South Africa’s top entrepreneurs the chance to be considered for R10 million in investment funding and acceleration. ANDZA is launched in collaboration with the SA SME Fund which is committed to developing South African entrepreneurs as an integral part…

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May 7, 2019

Events

Accelerator program, Africa, African youths, Angola, awards, AWP Network, bioscience, Botswana, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, FemBioBiz, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, Lesotho, Malawi, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mauritius, mobile technology, Mozambique, my voice matters, Namibia, Nigeria, program, progress, senior managers, Seychelles, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Swaziland, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths, Zambia
Amy Jadesimi, CEO of LADOL to Speak at the Africa Shared Value Summit

Shared Value thinking – the ability to see the business opportunity in driving the creation of a better world through the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals – is key to Africa becoming the economic powerhouse of the twenty-first century. Amy Jadesimi, CEO of LADOL, an oil and gas fabrication and multi-logistics service based…

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May 7, 2019

Events

Africa, Africa Shared Value Summit, AWP Network, change, education, girls, global economy, leadership, Mary Olushoga, Nairobi, Power Women, progress, strategic infrastructure, training, WimBiz, women
Mary Olushoga, Founder of AWP Network hosts the African Women in Technology Event in Lagos

Founded by Anie Akpe, AWIT has become a platform for technological advancement in Africa and beyond. The AWIT conference took place at Zone Tech Park in Lagos and was sponsored by Google Africa and Flutterwave. The African Women In Technology platform serves as a vehicle to push forward innovative ideas and encourage African women to step…

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April 29, 2019

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Adekanle Adegoke, Afghanistan, Africa, African Women in Tech, African Women Power Network, African youths, AfriStack, Anie Akpe, Ann Inc., ANNpower, ANNpower Vital Voices Initiative, awards, AWP Network, Ayo Mairo-Ese, Berlin, BHOGIP, Blogging, branding, Bunmi George, business, business support, challenge, change, Charles Busari, Charly Buxx Media, China Mouka, Cities Controlling App, cMapIT, collaboration, competition, Crowd mapping, crowdmapping, Data, data visualization, Dayo Oluwole, development, Edu-Cell, education, EDUPAY, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Campus, Entrepreneurship Summit, Ethiopia, Fellowship, GadaaUniverse, Germany, Ghana, girls, growth, Hansatu Adegbite, idea, Infrastructure, Innov8tive.com, Innovation, Inspiration, J.J Omojuwa, Japheth Omojuwa, Lagos, Lead Nigeria, leadership, mapping, mapping technology, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mary Olusoga, Merck, Merck Africa, Merck foundation, mobile mapping, mobile technology, MongoDB, my voice matters, Ngozi Adebiyi, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niyi Abiri, NovFeed, Okenfe Lebarty, Olori Boye-Ajayi, Omojuwa, Open Data Institute, open technology, program, progress, Robert Bernstein, SheWorksInTech, small business, social media, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, Tanzania, technology, The African Women Power Network, The AWP Network, The AWP Network Event, Ton Poenou, Toyin Onigbanjo, UNESCO, United Kingdom, United Nations, vital voices, women, women and girls, women empowerment, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition, youth unemployment, Youths, Youths Africa