Tag: Innovation

• How do I market my business on a limited budget?

  There are many ways to market your business on a limited budget. Social Media is one of the effective ways to do this. Once you choose to establish your social media presence, you will need to create time because you have to respond to your clients-not responding to potential clients or customers in a timely…

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  July 30, 2013

  Business, Education

  AWP Network, Budget, Cost, development, education, growth, Innovation, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Price, small business, Social Media Marketing, Youths

• Apply for the $100,000 ONE Africa Award

  The ONE Africa Award aims to recognize, reward, and advance the exceptional work of organizations founded by Africans, based in Africa, and dedicated to helping Africa achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The $100,000 award will bring recognition to innovative African efforts to fight poverty and will incentivize more of such efforts. (The award may…

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  July 25, 2013

  Events

  AWP Network, change, development, Innovation, Mary Olushoga, Millennium Development Goals, ONE Africa Award, poverty, progress, sustainability

• The AWP Photo Competition – Meet the Judges

  

  1. Mametja Moshe, (Johannesburg, South Africa) is Executive Director at Identity Mineral Resources (Pty) Ltd., an African mining investment company. Before joining the Identity group of companies, Mametja worked as an Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley covering the South African, Zambian, and Nigerian Mergers & Acquisitions and Equity capital markets for the mining industry. Mametja…

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  July 22, 2013

  Business, Education, Events, Interviews

  advocacy, AWP Network, Calabarboy, challenge, Chamese Bennett, change, collaboration, competition, development, Entrepreneurs, girls, Ijeoma Genevieve Mbamalu, Innovation, John Ajah, Kola Osinowo, Mametja Moshe, Mara van den Bold, Mary Olushoga, MUI-The PR Company, MUIPR, partnerships, Photo competition, Photography Competition, Photos, Reginald Bassey, Ruky Okotcha, women, Youths

• Why Most Businesses Fail in the First Six Months

  

  By James Jorner When you decide to start a business, you have two goals in mind: to solve a problem and to make profit. But these two things are not as easy as they usually sound. If they were, every building you pass by each day would be a successful business. There are stages businesses…

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  July 18, 2013

  Business, Education, Events

  Africa, AWP Network, business, development, failure, growth, information, Innovation, Mary Olushoga, next steps, Nigeria, progress, risk, small business, strategy, Youths

• The AWP Network Photo Competition

  What is the AWP Network Photo Competition? The AWP Network believes that any African anywhere in the world can make a difference and an impact in their local community. Our goal is to engage young Africans anywhere in the world and under the age of 30. You don’t have to wait until you go back…

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  July 8, 2013

  Business, Education, Events

  Africa, AWP Network, collaboration, emerging, Entrepreneurs, Innovation, making a difference, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, Photo competition, pictures, women and girls, Youths

• 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

• Stay Tuned: The AWP Network Photo Competition

  

                           

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  June 6, 2013

  Events

  Africa, AWP Network, business, change, competition, Entrepreneurs, Innovation, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, Photography, progress, sustainability, YourVoiceMatters, Youths

• Apply to the 2013 World Summit Youth Award

  

  The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) selects and promotes best practices in e-content and new media. The award shows young people’s potential to create outstanding digital content and serves as a platform for people from all UN member states to work together in the efforts to put UN Millennium Development Goals into action. The best projects…

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  May 16, 2013

  Education, Events

  Africa, AWP Network, change, development, education, Innovation, Nigeria, progress, sustainability, UN MDGs, women and girls, World Summit Youth Award, Youths

• African Techpreneur Wins the Etisalat Prize for Innovation

  

  Nkem Uwaje is Managing Director of Future Software Resources Nigeria Limited and winner of the 2012 Etisalat Nigeria Prize for Innovation. Her company created the iConnect project, focused on making ICT and education more accessible to youths in Nigeria. In this interview, Uwaje talks about how she got started and gives advice to young people interested in starting a business.…

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  April 24, 2013

  Business, Education, Interviews

  Africa, AWP Network, change, development, Etisalat prize for Innovation, Futuresoft, ICT, Innovation, Inspiration, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, Nkem Uwaje, sustainability, techpreneur, women, Youths

• Young Innovators Competition – $10,000

  This competition is open to entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 26 with an original tech idea or developed solution to one of its six listed global challenges. The ITU launched the Young Innovators Competition in a move to foster innovation among the next generation of social entrepreneurs working to change the world through…

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  April 9, 2013

  Events

  Africa, AWP Network, change, competition, development, Innovation, sustainability, Youths