Tag: idea
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Apply: Andela Software Developer Bootcamp for Women

Are you a young woman in Nigeria? Would you like to become a software developer? If yes, then you should apply. Andela will offer a free 2-week training program where instructors with years of software development experience teach the basics of front-end web development and guide participants to collaboratively build their first web development project. When…
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Apply: Vodafone Mobile App Competition
This competition is only open to citizens of, or those permanently residing in Ghana, India, Kenya, or South Africa and have developed (or can you develop) an app in one of iOS, Android, J2ME, or WP8. appStar is an annual developer contest organized by Vodafone, for developers across several countries on the African and Asian continent, to promote…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Apply: NITDA Software Development Challenge

The NITDA e-SOLVE is organizing its 1st software development challenge. The core objective of this challenge is to empower Nigerian software developers. Entries are invited from all the (6) geopolitical zones. Individual entries will be reviewed by an experienced and unbiased panel of judges. The best entry from each zone will be invited for the finals. Finalists are then…