Tag: Children

• $100,000 Investment for YOUR Startup

  UNICEF is looking to provide up to $100,000 investment-style funding to early-stage tech startups working on open-source technology solutions for children. The purpose of the UNICEF Innovation Fund is to invest in open source technologies for children. The Fund has raised $9 million so far and offers innovators in developing countries a pooled funding mechanism…

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  February 19, 2016

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, Children, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Funding, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, open-source technology, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, UNICEF, UNICEF Innovation Fund, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Founder of Genii Games Launches New App

  

  Innovator and entrepreneur, Adebayo Adegbembo founded Genii Games the parent company of Asa – a growing collection of interactive mobile applications that teaches Nigerian culture and languages. Read his interview with the AWP Network here. The new app, Adventures of the Tortoise, is a collection of African folktales. The audience follows the Tortoise on his adventures through…

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  August 13, 2014

  Business, Events

  Adebayo Adegbembo, Adventures of the Tortoise, Africa, African folktales, AWP Network, business, business support, Children, collaboration, culture, Entrepreneurs, Genii Games, language, Mary Olushoga, mobile apps, progress, small business, Startup, tech, The AWP Network

• Innovation and Animation – Changing the Face of Children’s Cartoons in Nigeria

  

  Adamu Waziri sat down with the AWP Network to discuss what inspired him to start his animation company, which produces the ‘Bino and Fino’ show. The ‘Bino and Fino’ show is an African educational and cultural cartoon series about a brother and sister, ‘Bino and Fino,’ who live with their grandparents ‘Mama and Papa,’ in…

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  July 2, 2013

  Business, Education, Interviews

  Adamu Waziri, Africa, Animation, AWP Network, Bino and Fino, business, Cartoon, change, Children, culture, education, impact, Innovation, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, sustainability, women and girls