Tag: Africans in technology

• Apply: 2016 W.TEC Girls Technology Camp

  W.TEC Girls Technology Camp is an initiative designed to inspire girls to become more confident in creating digital content as well as developing skills that uses information and communication technologies productively. The 2-week summer residential camp admits forty (40) Nigerian teenage girls in secondary schools across the nation between the ages of 13 and 17.…

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  July 11, 2016

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• 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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• 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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• African Girls in Technology: WITIN Forum Uncovers New Innovations

  

  by Olufemi Omotayo (Director – AWP Network)   Nigerian girls are techies too! Women in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN) provides networking, entrepreneurship, and professional development opportunities for women and girls. WITIN educates, inspires and equips women and girls to pursue and keep careers in STEM while embracing the emerging tech market as inventors and innovators.…

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  April 28, 2014

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• Language and Culture – How Genii Games is Using Technology to Spark Innovation

  

  Innovator and entrepreneur, Adebayo Adegbembo founded Genii Games shortly after participating in the tech-in-education hackathon organized by the Co-creation hub. Genii Games is the parent company of Asa – a growing collection of interactive mobile applications that teach Nigerian culture and languages.  Asa uses animation, voice, text, colorful graphics, and interactive games to capture the interest…

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  April 17, 2014

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• AWP Network working to uplift the next generation of African Innovators

  Struggles and challenges. Leaders and innovators are no strangers to them—and they’re not afraid to face them with persistence, tenacity, and determination. Mary Olushoga is one young woman who did not allow perceived barriers to stop her, but instead chose to turn them into motivation to start a movement. Olushoga, founder of the AWP Network, a…

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  May 9, 2013

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