Tag: education

• WorldRemit Launches New Service for SMEs

  

  WorldRemit has launched WorldRemit for Business, a new service that enables small and medium-sized business owners to quickly pay employees and contractors in 140 countries worldwide, including fast-growing markets such as Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. The platform will first be available to U.K.-registered businesses. WorldRemit’s low fees and exchange rates are shown up-front and customers can send money easily via the…

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  June 14, 2019

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  AdGeek, Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Cape Town, Côte d’Ivoire, challenge, change, Claimsync, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ghana, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mary Olusoga, Meltwater Foundation, MEST, MEST Africa, MEST Africa Summit, MEST Incubator, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, RetailTower, Saya, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• Startups Win $50,000 at the MEST Africa Pan-African Tech Summit in Nairobi

  

  This year’s Summit was held in partnership with Microsoft. Additional sponsors included Liquid Telecom, Africa’s Talking, Oracle, Intel, Lori Systems, Flutterwave, Stratlink, Ethiopian Airlines and a number of ecosystem partners. The Summit was held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Nairobi on Conference Day, and the Nairobi Garage, home of MEST Africa’s Nairobi Incubator, on…

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  June 14, 2019

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  AdGeek, Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Cape Town, Côte d’Ivoire, challenge, change, Claimsync, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ghana, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mary Olusoga, Meltwater Foundation, MEST, MEST Africa, MEST Africa Summit, MEST Incubator, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, RetailTower, Saya, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths, YouthsAfrica

• Andela launches The Power of “X” campaign as it scales engineering teams across the continent

  

  Andela, the company building distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software engineers, is recruiting mid and senior level developers in 2019, as part of a new Power of ‘X’ campaign, as it looks to scale its operations and meet growing demand. This comes as more companies seek to enhance their technology teams via distributed workforces.…

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  May 24, 2019

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  Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, Andela, Andela Fellowship, AWP, AWP Network, business, business support, change, coding, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, tech education, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• MainOne to commit NGN25billion to digitization of Lagos State

  

  West Africa’s leading connectivity and data centre solutions provider, MainOne launches its “Digital Lagos: Broadband for All” campaign initiative to enable the digital transformation of Lagos state through deployment of ubiquitous broadband infrastructure across the state. At the campaign launch organized in Lagos to announce its plans on Tuesday, Funke Opeke, Chief Executive Officer, MainOne,…

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  May 24, 2019

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

• Wari enables customers to request its financial services on WhatsApp

  

  The introduction of MyWari on WhatsApp provides customers the convenience to transact and communicate directly as well as easily carry out all their operations. This Wari service on WhatsApp is currently available in the following languages: (French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese) with Russian and Arabic coming soon. Wari caters to a broader customer base with the aim of enhancing…

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  May 24, 2019

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

• CoinCola – Person-to-Person (P2P) Bitcoin platform now in Nigeria

  

  Blockchain Technology is rapidly growing in different continents and many more people beginning to see the importance and relevance of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in their different fields of life. Nations and companies are gradually adopting cryptocurrency in exchange for goods and services instead of fiat. However, the African continent seems to be lagging behind…

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  May 24, 2019

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  Africa, African girls, African girls in technology, African Women Power Network, African youths, applications, awards, AWP Network, AWP Network. change, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, 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, small business, solutions, South Africa, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, techbiz, technology, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Unoma Okorafor, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs

• Opportunity: Cellulant Nigeria Hiring for Head of Marketing

  

  Cellulant, a well established digital payments provider and one of the 7 companies that make up the underlying e-Payment infrastructure in Nigeria is currently hiring for the role of Head of Marketing. The company is looking for someone with 10 years of experience in the market. Cellulant is tasked with increasing the uptake of e-Commerce,…

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  May 15, 2019

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

• Opportunity: WAAW Foundation is Recruiting for a Business Development Manager

  

  This position is to manage WAAW Foundation fundraising and partnership growth strategies, including business development, sales, and program management for software development projects and STEM training, project planning, management, administrative support to WAAW foundation programs. The Business Development Manager is responsible for the organization’s consistent achievement of its mission and objectives in program development and…

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  May 15, 2019

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

• Opportunity: WAAW Foundation Seeks Executive Director

  

  The WAAW Foundation is a 501(c) non-profit organization whose mission is to empower girls throughout Africa by increasing the pipeline of girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. The WAAW Foundation does the following: provides college scholarships to African girls, organizes STEM Robotics camps and operates STEM outreach and mentoring programs in University campuses across Africa to…

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  May 15, 2019

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

• 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