Tag: women entrepreneurs

• Leadership and Entrepreneurship Training for African Women In Business

  

  Are you an aspiring or experienced African business woman living in Africa or the Diaspora? Can you dedicate 2 to 3 hours a week to business and leadership training over the course of the next year? Would you relish the opportunity to grow your network within and outside Africa, expand your skills, strengthen your brand, and be mentored…

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  January 22, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Center for Global Enterprise, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• UNICEF Innovation Fund – Up to $90k in Equity-Free Funding

  

  The Innovation Fund allows UNICEF to quickly assess, fund and grow open-source solutions that can improve children’s lives. Financial and technological support is available for companies that are using technology in innovative ways to improve the world. The UNICEF Innovation Fund – will provide selected startups with between $50,000 and $90,000 in equity-free funding.  The…

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  January 22, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Innovation Fund, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, UNICEF, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• $100,000 Available: Off-Grid Energy Challenge in Nigeria

  

  The U.S. African Development Foundation and All On invites proposals for innovative off-grid solutions to “power up” underserved areas of Nigeria. Applicants should be developing, scaling up or extending energy technologies to off-grid areas of Nigeria. DEADLINE: March 1, 2018 The Off-Grid Energy Challenge is led by the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) to develop, scale-up or…

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  January 18, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, All On, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Department of Energy, development, education, Energy Challenge, engineers, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ethiopia, Ghana, girls, Global LEAP Awards, Global LEAP Off-Grid Refrigeration Competition, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, Liberia, manufacturers, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Off-Grid Energy Challenge, Power Africa, program, progress, Refrigeration, Scaling Off-Grid Energy Grand Challenge, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, students, Sub-Saharan Africa, support, sustainability, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, U.S. African Development Foundation, USADF, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Partech Africa Fund to Invest $70M in Early Stage African Startups

  

  Partech Ventures announced today the launch of its Partech Africa fund, which has secured above €57M (US$70M) commitments toward its target size of €100M ($120M), making it the first technology fund of such size from a top-tier international VC to be exclusively dedicated to the fast-growing tech ecosystem in Africa. Partech Africa intends to focus…

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  January 18, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business impact, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, ecosystem, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Partech Ventures, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, tech fund, technology, technology fund, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Attend: She Hacks Africa Free Coding Workshop

  

  Want to learn how to create your own apps, websites or even learn about cutting edge data analysis? The She Hacks Africa training workshop will give you the know-how to get started, boost your employability skills and productivity. The training program will be split between fun, hands-on, result-oriented workshops that deliver practical, creative, software programming skills, and…

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  January 17, 2018

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

• Investors: Opportunity To Acquire Majority Stake in Carthage Cement S.A

  

  The purpose of this Call for Expression of Interest is (i) to inform investors about this Transaction, (ii) to describe the sale process, and (iii) to guide the interested investors on the pre-qualification document’s withdrawal. This Call for Expression of Interest is open to Tunisian or foreign legal entities. Interested Investors may act alone or form a…

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  January 16, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Carthage Cement, cement, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, concrete, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Investors, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, transaction, Tunisia, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• 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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  January 16, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Data, data science, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, poverty, program, progress, qualitative, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, training, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, World Bank, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• Call for Entrepreneurs in Nigeria’s North East and Niger Delta Regions

  

  Selected entrepreneurs from these two regions (North East and Niger Delta Nigeria) will each receive: funding of up to $5000 from a separate endowment of $1,000,000 as non-returnable seed capital to implement their business ideas, after undergoing business training and mentoring. The beneficiaries of this program will be announced alongside the successful 1000 entrepreneurs in…

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  January 15, 2018

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  active mentoring, Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, business training, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Elumelu, empowerment, empowerment fund, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, GEEP, girls, growth, Hafsatu Hamza-Babaji, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investment, Kaduna, Lagos, leadership, LoftyInc Capital Management, LSETF, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mentoring, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Nigeria empowerment fund, program, progress, small biz, small business, SMEs, solutions, South Africa, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, Teen Tycoons, TEEP, TEEP program, The AWP Network, Tony Elemelu Entrepreneurial Program, Tony Elumelu, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• Apply: Google Launchpad for African Startups

  

  Google Launchpad Africa is an acceleration program that matches top African startups with the best of Google – its people, network, and advanced technologies – to help build great products. If you are building a great business or product in Africa, for Africa we should work together! The program is accepting applications from startups located in:…

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  January 15, 2018

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  accountability, Africa, Africa. Nigeria, African startups, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Creativity, Developers, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Europe, Firebase, Ghana, girls, Google, Google Launchpad Africa, growth, ICT, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, investments, JC Common Award, Kenya, Lagos, Launch, Launchpad Build, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, Royal Academy of Engineering, small business, smallbiz, software development, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Tanzania, techbiz, Techlaunchpad, technology, The AWP Network, Uganda, UK, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Apply: 2018 TechWomen Program

  

  TechWomen empowers, connects and supports the next generation of women leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from Africa and the Middle East by providing them with the access and opportunity needed to advance their careers, pursue their dreams, and inspire women and girls in their communities. Through mentorship and exchange, TechWomen strengthens participants’ professional…

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  January 15, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, Algeria, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Cameroon, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Egypt, Engineering, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lagos, leadership, Lebanon, Libya, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Math, Mathematics, mentoring, Middle East, mobile technology, Mombasa Girls in STEM, Morocco, my voice matters, Nigeria, Pakistan, program, progress, Rwanda, science, Sierra Leone, small business, solutions, South Africa, STEM, strategy, support, sustainability, Tajikistan, tech women, techbiz, technology, TechWomen, Techwomen Kenya, The AWP Network, the Palestinian Territories, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, US Embassy Kenya, Uzbekistan, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Yemen, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths, Zimbabwe