Transformify
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation. Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 3, 2012
In two years she has hired eight full-time employees, secured lucrative government contracts, and is able to support seven households besides her own in Amman. The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks. Joyce Wafukho, Kenya.
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The Next Web
OCTOBER 15, 2012
The internet has no barriers when it comes to reaching an international user base and these startups are capitalizing on being able to have a global reach. kenya’s winner Sematime makes it easy for people to send bills and invoices to large groups of contacts via SMS. Governments supportive of technology.
thebarefootvc
DECEMBER 16, 2011
2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.
Transformify
JULY 21, 2019
In 2006, I volunteered in an orphanage in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya. In December 2011, I was presented with an International Honorary Award for her philanthropic educational work through technology in Africa at a gala ball in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates hosted by the Middle East Internet Awards.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 19, 2015
At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. That’s it. That’s what we do.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy. The Internet gets a bad rap for making people closed off, and sometimes, it’s true. In this talk, Erik Hersman discusses Ushahidi, a Google Maps mashup used in Kenya following the 2008 elections. Rebecca MacKinnon: Let’s take back the Internet.
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