Ajegunle.org is a project that seeks to create better livelihoods through ICT opportunities,entrepreneurship training and short internships for young people in Nigeria’s underserved areas. Ajegunle.org has trained over 120 disadvantaged youth who had an average income of $0 and now earn an average income of $3 per day. Internet Safety and Privacy Initiative for Nigeria {ISSPIN} focuses on the challenge of making the internet safe.
This is being achieved through social campaigns that involve sensitization workshops and events drawing attention to the issue of internet safety while also providing a platform for stakeholders to work together. The Paradigm Initiative Nigeria have also initiated T.E.N.T an acronym that stands for Techie, Entrepreneurial, Nigerian and Talented. There is one thing to have an idea to start a business, there is another to have the skills to run that business.
On the 30th of April, there was a formal signing of the memorandum of understanding between the Obafemi Awolowo University and PIN for the T.E.N.T program. 99 students enrolled for the special elective course which will help fill a gap providing the necessary platform for budding technopreneurs, providing them with resources that will empower them, give them an avenue to showcase their work, inspire innovation and help them build a sustainable business that they can run after graduation.
Can anyone remember that Google started as a Ph.D project? T.E.N.T will feature an annual event and search for unconnected tech enthusiast who have the potential of building globally accessible tech products as it is not just about building a product but what impact it will have globally. The TENT workshops started last year in Warri and has since commenced in 2012 in Uyo and Minna, the annual TENT gathering will however debut in December 2012, so mark your calendars techies.
TENT is all about empowerment, it allows the freedom to graduate with a certificate in learning, culture and entrepreneurship thus it prepares individual with the skillset and experience needed to build and run a successful start up and reverse the trend by producing employers of labor instead of employees. We hope to have more of these initiatives in our high schools and tertiary institutions to help raise a new generation of world class entrepreneurs.
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