Tag: AWP Network

• 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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

• Apply: WAAW Foundation She Hacks Africa Coding Bootcamp

  

  Learn how to create your own web and mobile apps using: HTML, CSS, BOOTSTRAP, JAVASCRIPT & JQUERY, PHP & MySQL, WordPress, GitHub, Node.JS, Ionic Framework for Mobile App Development. The workshop will give you the know-how to get started, boost your Employability, Entrepreneurship & Leadership skills and productivity by learning to Code and hosting your…

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  April 29, 2019

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  Africa, African girls, African girls in technology, African Women Power Network, African youths, applications, awards, AWELE Academy, AWP Network, AWP Network. change, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Engineering, 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, She Hacks Africa, SheHacksAfrica, small business, software engineering, solutions, South Africa, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, techbiz, technology, technology leadership, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Unoma Okorafor, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth

• Tony Elumelu Foundation Seeks Mentors for Its Business Program

  

  The Tony Elumelu Foundation seeks mentors for its entrepreneurship program. To achieve its goal of 1:2 mentor/mentee ratio at most, we would like to take advantage of your network to recruit additional mentors. Kindly share this link with those you deem fit to mentor and grow the selected African Entrepreneurs – Qualities of a TEF…

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  April 29, 2019

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  active mentoring, Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, business training, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Elumelu, empowerment, empowerment fund, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, GEEP, girls, growth, Hafsatu Hamza-Babaji, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investment, Kaduna, Lagos, leadership, LoftyInc Capital Management, LSETF, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mentoring, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Nigeria empowerment fund, program, progress, small biz, small business, SMEs, solutions, South Africa, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, Teen Tycoons, TEEP, TEEP program, The AWP Network, Tony Elemelu Entrepreneurial Program, Tony Elumelu, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment

• Apply: Canon’s New Cosmos of Photography Competition

  

  Canon will begin accepting entries for its New Cosmos of Photography 2019 photo competition. The competition is open to international entrants in the aim of discovering, nurturing, and supporting developing photographers who want to explore new and creative ways to engage with photography and video. The Excellence Award Selection Committee will meet in July to…

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  April 29, 2019

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  Africa, African youths, AWP Network, Canon, Excellent, international, Mary Olushoga, New Cosmos of Photography, Nigeria, Photographers, Photography, South Africa, The African Women Power Network, women and girls, women empowerment