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Magatte Wade is a Senegalese entrepreneur who was raised in France. She gained initial fame for a TEDTalk she made in 2017 about what she argues is an excessive regulatory environment in Africa , which forces young Africans to emigrate for economic reasons. [ 1 ]
The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is an Africa-wide technology entrepreneur training program, seed fund, and incubator headquartered in Accra, Ghana. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The three-phased institution was founded in 2008 to provide training, investment, and mentoring for aspiring technology entrepreneurs with the goal of creating ...
In collaboration with the MTN Foundation, Women in Tech Africa organized the MTN Girl Code project in 2017. [4] This project sought to increase the number of women participating in the MTN App Challenge (an MTN initiative run annually), [5] improve the number of ladies in the coding ecosystem in Ghana and encourage the number of female in the African Startup eco-system.
The Uganda National Entrepreneurship Development Institute (UNEDI) is a privately owned national resource development institution in Uganda whose focus area is entrepreneurship education, training and research. The institute provides training techniques, faculty support, consultancy, research as well as teaching and development of ...
Gender stereotyping in the VCs' decision making was also emphasised in a different study that showed that men and women get asked different questions during their pitches. The questions targeted towards the women entrepreneurs are focused on prevention and loss, while their male counterparts receive questions focused on potential gains.
10,000 Women Logo. 10,000 Women is a program organized by Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation with the goal of helping to grow local economies by providing business education, mentoring and networking, and access to capital to underserved women entrepreneurs globally. [1] [2] The program was announced on March 5, 2008, at Columbia ...
Furthermore, aside being the Vice Dean of the Faculty Social Studies, [3] Abena Oduro is also the Director of the Centre for Social Policy Studies in the University of Ghana [6] and the Co-Director for the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) [7] which is an organization setup to create a platform for scholars within the ...
Edith Kahbang Walla (born February 28, 1965), [1] popularly known as Kah Walla, is a Cameroonian politician, [2] entrepreneur and social activist. [3] She went into politics in 2007 with the Social Democratic Front (SDF), [4] the then main Cameroonian opposition party and was then elected into the municipal council of Douala I. [5] In 2010, she resigned from SDF following a divergence over ...