Tag: Data
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Founder of AWP Network, Mary Olushoga at the UN

Mary Olushoga, Founder of AWP Network spoke at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Meeting in New York. The event titled ‘Equal Access to Education for all: Gender, Disabilities, Indigenous Peoples‘ took place at the United Nations Plaza, Church Center and was attended by members of the NGO committee on the status…
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Founder of AWP Network, Mary Olushoga to Serve as Advisor for cMapIt and Gatefield Media Group

Mary Olushoga, Founder of African Women Power (AWP) Network will serve as an Advisor for Gatefield Impact. Gatefield is a boutique public strategy and media group working to create change. The company provides strategic communications and public affairs services in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. The company stands out for its solid grasp of campaigning and…
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Millennial Youtuber, Florentina Agu Wants to Change How Restaurants Serve Nigerians

Florentina Agu is on a mission to improve restaurant service quality in Nigeria using her YouTube channel as a tool for change. Agu states, “I was inspired to start “Dining Out with Flo” after attending a YouTube masterclass organized by Google Nigeria on July 27, 2018. It was after this event that I decided to…
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Founder of AWP Network, Mary Olushoga to Speak at Georgetown University

Mary Olushoga, Founder of AWP Network will speak at Georgetown University on November 12, 2018. She will lead the workshop on “Leveraging Women’s Power for Economic Growth in Africa.” The Africa Forum (TAF) in collaboration with the African Studies Department and Young African Professionals (YAP DC) convenes thought leaders from different academic and professional backgrounds…
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Mary Olushoga, Founder of AWP Network to Speak about African Women Entrepreneurs During UN General Assembly Week

Mary Olushoga, Founder of AWP Network is set to speak about African Women Entrepreneurs during UN General Assembly Week. She will join the discussion on the challenges and successes facing African women entrepreneurs. You may register for the event here: UN Africa
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Research Project at Stanford Becomes Thriving Startup – Adia Sowho, Managing Director of Mines Nigeria Speaks to The AWP Network

Ekechi Nwokah and Kunle Olukotun founded Mines in 2014. At the time, they were living in Palo Alto where they met for the first time at a mutual friend’s house. Nwokah and Olukotun share similar backgrounds. They grew up in Nigeria and studied computer science while at university. Naturally they clicked and began to discuss…
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African Startup Winning! Mines Secures $13M Series A to Grow Digital Credit Platform for Emerging Markets

Mines started out as a research project on high performance artificial intelligence led by Kunle Olukotun, a professor of computer engineering at Stanford University. It came to life after a chance meeting with Ekechi Nwokah, a computer scientist working on big data projects at Amazon Web Services, after which they teamed up to direct the…
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“Innovation in Africa Will Thrive Whether People Support It Or Not,” Founder of cMapIT Nigeria Speaks to the AWP Network

Niyi Abiri is passionate about using open mobile mapping technology to capture citizen-related concerns about government and governance, infrastructure projects, and areas vulnerable to conflict in Nigeria. His company, cMapIT has received global recognition and awards from institutions like MongoDB and Open Data Institute. The AWP Network connects with Abiri to learn more about his…
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Enter the World Bank Data Science Competition and Win $15k

The World Bank competition will supply a set of training data with anonymized qualitative variables from household surveys in 3 countries, including the “poor” or “not poor” classification for each observation. The challenge is to build models which can accurately classify households from a different set of test data (with the poor/not poor classification removed!)…
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Apply: $500,000 for Investigative Projects
Africa’s first data-driven investigative journalism initiative launches today with $500,000 in grants and technical support for reportage that changes lives. The initiative grows out of a partnership between CfAfrica and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). A consortium of donors led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank and CFI Media Cooperation. The new impactAFRICA initiative…