Following successful previous editions, Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), Nigeria’s premier social innovation centre together with Omidyar Network and Union Bank is proud to announce the 3rd Social Change Summit in June 2017. This year’s Social Change Summit themed ‘How might we connect more Africans to more opportunities to move up the socio-economic ladder?’ promises to engage and inspire attendees but more importantly seeks to understand how Africans can access opportunities that help them move up the social ladder to a higher socio-economic class. The sessions will include 3 main tracks namely: Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship. The summit will have in attendance…
Author: Victor Amadala
Motorcycles are common mode of transport both in urban and rural Kenya, with bodaboda sector employing at least 4 out of 10 youths in rural counties. This has seen the demand for motorcycles and spare parts increase tremendously over the past decade. Even so, most motorcycle buyers in the country find it hard to purchase quality motorcycles for their trade due to limited information available This has seen most of them conned by middlemen who sell them substandard products at overrated prices, with some forced to waste most time to manually search for their dream motorcycles. These buyers can now…
Ponder this- chatting with people across the world using your analogue phone, let’s say Nokia 7020 or 1100 without internet. You can still create chat groups just like on Whatsapp where when a member sends a voice or text message, everyone in the group gets it regardless of time zones, phone types and even networks. This is not a script for a fictional movie. In fact, 5.8 billion people across the globe can now use these services provided by OneM , an emerging world giant in mobile telecommunication, which has designed simple, cheap and effective technology that allows people to…