Tag: African youths

• Apply: FARA Africa Student Essay Competition

  FARA Africa is introducing an essay competition for full-time students of agriculture programs throughout African tertiary institutions to include universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education. Do you have an idea for improving innovation in agriculture? then you should apply. Please note that this competition is not open to students of African origin studying outside the African…

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  October 14, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, agriculture, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, FARA, FARA Africa, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, growth, idea, Innovation, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Apply: Coder4Africa Training Program in Nigeria

  

    Coders4Africa provides African programmers and developers a gateway to high-quality training and certifications in new technologies and platforms that currently dominate the software development industry. Apply for their upcoming training program here: Coder4Africa      

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  October 13, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, Coders4Africa, collaboration, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, growth, idea, Innovation, Nigeria, progress, solutions, strategy, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs

• Apply: Vodafone Mobile App Competition

  This competition is only open to citizens of, or those permanently residing in Ghana, India, Kenya, or South Africa and have developed (or can you develop) an app in one of iOS, Android, J2ME, or WP8. appStar is an annual developer contest organized by Vodafone, for developers across several countries on the African and Asian continent, to promote…

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  October 13, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, appStar, Asia, AWP Network, business, business support, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ghana, growth, idea, India, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, program, progress, small business, smallbiz, solutions, South Africa, strategy, sustainability, techbiz, technology, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Innovation and Health: Grand Challenge to Help Health Care Workers Fight Ebola

  The Grand Challenge for Development aims to generate pioneering solutions to help healthcare workers provide better care in the midst of the Ebola epidemic. This challenge will unite the global community in the quest for ingenious ideas that deliver practical and cost-effective innovations in a matter of months. USAID needs new ideas to help ensure that…

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  October 7, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, AWP, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, Ebola, Ebola Grand Challenge, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, growth, Guinea, healthcare, idea, ideas, Innovation, leadership, Liberia, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, small business, solutions, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, USAID, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, Youths

• Attend the Campaign2Insights Summit

  In a bid to help entrepreneurs better understand the importance of data to business growth, RainyLemon Nigeria – a strategy and analytics company is organizing the Campaign2Insights Summit (C2ILagos). The goal of the summit is to share new ways data can impact businesses. When: October 23 – 24,  2014 Where: NSPRI Guest House (32/38 Barikisu Iyede Street, Yaba, Lagos) To…

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  October 7, 2014

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  Abiodun Thorpe, Africa, African youths, AWP, AWP Network, business, business support, Campaign2Insights, challenge, change, collaboration, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, growth, idea, Innovation, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, RainyLemon, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women entrepreneurs, Yinka Awosanya, Young Entrepreneurs, Youths

• Join the AWP Network at the ‎2014 Young African Leadership Symposium

  

  A new generation of women and young people throughout Africa are emerging and developing innovative strategies to overcome daily problems at the local and national level. Unfortunately, their combined capacities have not been fully harnessed nor realized. Questions to think about:  Where are the pioneering efforts being made in education, training, and skills development for…

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  October 6, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Fadumo Dayib, Funke Bucknor-Obruthe, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Karen Waweru, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mobolaji Akiode, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Apply: United Nations PEACEApp Competition

  PEACEapp is a global competition organized by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the United Nations Development Program in collaboration with Build Up to promote digital games and gamified apps as venues for cultural dialogue and conflict management. Additional partners of PEACEapp include GamesForChange and the Institute for Economics and Peace. The competition is…

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  October 6, 2014

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

• Join She Leads Africa in Washington D.C.

  

  Diaspora Demo Day is a start-up showcase spotlighting emerging companies and social enterprises focused on Africa and the African diaspora in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The event is a collaboration between tiphub, the African Technology Foundation, and She Leads Africa. She Leads Africa will take (7) start-ups to the showcase and facilitate introductions to…

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  October 5, 2014

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  Africa, African Technology Foundation, African youths, Afua Osei, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, Diaspora Demo Day, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, growth, idea, Innovation, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, program, progress, She Leads Africa, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, tiphub, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Yasmin Belo-Osagie, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Apply: NITDA Software Development Challenge

  

  The NITDA e-SOLVE is organizing its 1st software development challenge. The core objective of this challenge is to empower Nigerian software developers. Entries are invited from all the (6) geopolitical zones. Individual entries will be reviewed by an experienced and unbiased panel of judges. The best entry from each zone will be invited for the finals. Finalists are then…

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  September 24, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, NITDA, progress, small business, Software competition, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• She Leads Africa: Empowering the Next Generation of Women Entrepreneurs

  

  What happens when a University of Chicago – Booth School of Business graduate meets the daughter of one of Africa’s richest men? They start a company.  The AWP Network meet with founders of She Leads Africa to learn more about the organization, the services they provide, and what they are doing to support women entrepreneurs. There…

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  September 22, 2014

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  Africa, African women power, African youths, Afua Osei, AWP Network, Belo-Osagie, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Dangote, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, Olushoga, program, progress, She Leads Africa, small business, solutions, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Tony Elumelu, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, women leadership, Yasmin Belo-Osagie, Young Entrepreneurs, Youths