Tag: The AWP Network

• 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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  October 5, 2014

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  Africa, African Technology Foundation, African youths, Afua Osei, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, Diaspora Demo Day, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, growth, idea, Innovation, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, program, progress, She Leads Africa, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, tiphub, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Yasmin Belo-Osagie, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• 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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  October 1, 2014

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  Africa, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, gender equality, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, leadership, Leadership awards, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, The AWP Network, UN Women, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Women’s Empowerment Principles, Young Entrepreneurs

• 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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  September 26, 2014

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  AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, Cherie Blair, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, collaboration, competition, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, growth, idea, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs

• 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…

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  September 24, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, NITDA, progress, small business, Software competition, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• What We Don’t Know About Women in Technology

  

                 

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  September 23, 2014

  Education, Interviews

  AFK Insider, AWP Network, Mary Olushoga, The AWP Network, Women in Technology

• She Leads Africa: Empowering the Next Generation of Women Entrepreneurs

  

  What happens when a University of Chicago – Booth School of Business graduate meets the daughter of one of Africa’s richest men? They start a company.  The AWP Network meet with founders of She Leads Africa to learn more about the organization, the services they provide, and what they are doing to support women entrepreneurs. There…

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  September 22, 2014

  Business, Education, Interviews

  Africa, African women power, African youths, Afua Osei, AWP Network, Belo-Osagie, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Dangote, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, Olushoga, program, progress, She Leads Africa, small business, solutions, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Tony Elumelu, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, women leadership, Yasmin Belo-Osagie, Young Entrepreneurs, Youths

• Apply: $100,000 ONE Africa Award

  

  Does your organization work to advance the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) in Africa? Can its results be an example of what the Post 2015 MDGs should achieve at scale? If answers to both questions are yes, then the ONE Award is looking for you. The ONE Africa Award aims to recognize, reward, and advance the…

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  September 21, 2014

  Events

  Africa, AWP Network, business, business support, collaboration, development, education, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, growth, idea, Innovation, marketing, Mary Olushoga, ONE Africa Award, program, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs

• Join Dee Poku and the WIE Network in New York

  

  WIE is an innovative global conference that connects established trailblazers with emerging leaders. WIE, which stands for Women, Inspiration and Enterprise launched its first symposium in New York City in 2010. Its dynamic symposiums and salons provide a toolkit for success for tomorrow’s CEOs. At the symposium, you’ll meet with executives, entrepreneurs, potential collaborators and…

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  September 17, 2014

  Events

  Africa, AWP Network, business, business support, change, collaboration, Dee Poku, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, leaders, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, New York, program, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, WIE Network, WIE Symposium, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices

• Apply: West African Clean Energy Business Plan Competition

  

  The African Development Bank (AfDB) through its Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa  (SEFA), the Climate Technology Initiative – Private Financing Advisory Network (CTIPFAN) and the Regional Clean Energy Investment Initiative (RCEII) of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), together with their West Africa CTI PFAN partners are inviting West African entrepreneurs with promising clean…

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  September 17, 2014

  Events

  Africa, African Development Bank, AWP Network, business, business plan competition, clean energy, development, education, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, green business, growth, idea, Innovation, marketing, Mary Olushoga, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, The AWP Network, West Africa Forum for Clean Energy, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, Youths

• Apply: The Green Pioneer Accelerator Program

  

  The 2015 Green Pioneer Accelerator program just launched in Kenya and South Africa. This acceleration program targets green entrepreneurs looking to take their innovations to scale in Africa. Are you an entrepreneur working on a highly scalable product or services that mitigates the effects of climate change? Does your business introduce renewable energy sources to market…

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  September 16, 2014

  Events

  AWP Network, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Green Entrepreneurs, Green Pioneer Accelerator Program, growth, idea, Innovation, Kenya, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, South Africa, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, Youths