Tag: challenge

• Apply: MTN Ghana Mobile App Challenge

  

  The 2014 MTN Apps Challenge will award the most innovative and locally relevant mobile apps. This is only open to citizens of, and those permanently residing in Ghana. Entries of apps shall be accepted in the following categories: Education Lifestyle Games and Entertainment Additional Information: Participants can enter the competition with one or more apps.…

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  October 14, 2014

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

• 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: WEPs CEO Leadership Award 2015

  

  The Leadership Award of the Women’s Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business (WEPs) is a partnership initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact, which seeks to recognize business leaders for their exceptional championship of gender equality and support for the 7 Principles. Nominations are now open for the prestigious 2015 WEPs CEO Leadership…

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  October 1, 2014

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  Africa, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, gender equality, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, leadership, Leadership awards, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, The AWP Network, UN Women, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Women’s Empowerment Principles, Young Entrepreneurs

• Apply: Women in Business Mentoring Program

  

  The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women selects and matches women entrepreneurs and mentors from around the world to join their prestigious year-long mentoring program. Mentors are men and women from diverse sectors who give 2 hours a month to support a woman entrepreneur. Mentees are women from developing or emerging economies who have a passion for…

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  September 26, 2014

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  AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, Cherie Blair, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, collaboration, competition, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, growth, idea, 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