Category: Events

• The AWP Network at the Harvard IDEASpHERE Forum

  

  IDEASpHERE was a two-day celebration of powerful ideas. The event featured innovative talks, presentations, simulations, and interactive discussions delivered by inspirational members of the HKS community. Learn more about the event here: Harvard Ideasphere      

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  July 23, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Forum, girls, growth, Harvard, HKS, idea, Ideasphere, Innovation, Innovative Ideas, Inspiration, leadership, Mary Olushoga, President Sirleaf Johnson, progress, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• W.TEC Girls Technology Camp

  

  W.TEC Girls Technology Camp is a two-week technology education and mentoring program organized by W.TEC, with the objective to help girls develop an early interest in computers and other information technology. For the camp duration, girls will participate in technology workshops. The long-term goal is to increase the numbers of Nigerian women using technology productively…

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  July 18, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, Africans in technology, applications, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, digital solutions, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Girls education, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Oreoluwa Somolu, program, progress, science, small business, solutions, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, tech camp, tech camp for girls in Nigeria, technology, technology camp, The AWP Network, W-TEC, women, women and girls, women and girls technology camp, women entrepreneurs, WTEC, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Global Awards for Outstanding Work in Technology for Gender Equality

  

  The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UN Women are partnering to launch a new global technology award that recognizes outstanding contributions from women and men in leveraging the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote gender equality. The annual GEM-TECH Awards will be conferred on seven winners from government, the private sector, academia…

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  July 16, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, content, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, equality, GEM Tech, Gender, girls, growth, ICT, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile applications, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, tech, technology, The AWP Network, UN Women, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Apply: Young Innovators Competition

  

  The young innovators competition seeks gifted young entrepreneurs with ideas for innovative social enterprises. The Young Innovators Competition is looking for 18-30 year old entrepreneurs from around the world with social start-ups which use open source technologies for disaster management. This could include disaster preparedness, early warning, emergency communication and response, and recovery from natural disasters.We urgently…

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  July 14, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, disaster management, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, financing, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, innovative social enterprises, Innovators, Inspiration, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, my voice matters, program, progress, seed funding, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, young, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Women Building Communities

  The Women and Youth Empowerment Network, a UK based non-governmental organization, in collaboration with the Network for Development, will host an African Women capacity building program titled: ‘Women Building Communities‘ in November. This program is geared at enhancing the capacity building skills and participation of African women in community development projects. Activities planned for the event…

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  July 11, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, Women and Youth Empowerment Network, Women Building Communities, women entrepreneurs, Woyen, Young Entrepreneurs, Youths

• The AWP Network Congratulates 2014 Winners of the Women4Africa Awards

  

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  July 10, 2014

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• Apply: Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards

  Building on the success of the 2013 Awards, Unilever is inviting young people to come up with practical and innovative solutions to some of the world’s biggest sustainability challenges and enter them in the Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards. Young entrepreneurs (aged 30 or under) are invited to submit inspiring initiatives that tackle the…

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  July 8, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, award, AWP Network, business, Business Solutions, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Unilever, women, women and girls, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Apply: Etisalat Pan-African Prize for Innovation

  

  Mobile Broadband in Africa Broadband is primarily mobile across the African continent and critical to our economic development. A rise of ten mobile phones per 100 people boosts GDP growth by 0.6%, resulting in improved market information flow and assisting SME’s and Entrepreneurs to grow business and improve links. Entries will need to show demonstrable…

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  July 7, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, Africans in technology, awards, AWP Network, business, business development, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Etisalat, Etisalat Pan-African Prize for Innovation, Etisalat prize for Innovation, girls, growth, idea, Innovate, Innovation, Inspiration, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mentoring, mobile, mobile technology, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, smart phone, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, tech, technology, telecommunications, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, Youths

• Working to Advance STEM Education for African Girls

  

  The STEM camp for African girls will hold July 27th – August 2nd, 2014 at the Global International School, plot 12, Block 26, Admiralty way, Lekki, Lagos. The camp is aimed at African girls between the ages of 13 and 17 and who are currently enrolled in Senior Secondary School SS1 – SS3. Girls from…

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  July 3, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, applications, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Girls education, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, science, small business, solutions, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Sharefair 2014: Inspiring Change for Rural Women

  

  The Sharefair 2014 on Rural Women’s Technologies to Improve Food Security, Nutrition and Productive Family Farming invites submissions of technologies and innovations that support rural female smallholder farmers. Eligible Countries: Burundi, D.R. of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. The objectives expected to…

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  July 1, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, agribusiness, agriculture, AWP Network, Burundi, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, D.R. of Congo, development, Djibouti, education, employment, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Farmers, Gender, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Inspiring Change, Kenya, leadership, Malawi, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, Mozambique, Nigeria, program, progress, Rural Women, Rwanda, small business, solutions, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, strategy, Sudan, support, sustainability, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, Uganda, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, youth unemployment, Youths, Zambia, Zimbabwe