UK-Nigeria Tech Hub launches virtual capacity building programmes
The UK-Nigeria Tech Hub works to build high-end digital and entrepreneurial skills.
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Forming a part of the International Tech Hub Network, delivered by DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport), the UK-Nigeria Tech Hub works to build high-end digital and entrepreneurial skills, forging partnerships between local tech sectors and international businesses to stimulate digital economies and develop the Nigeria tech ecosystem.
In this regard and in compliance of the COVID-19 health protocols, the Hub has launched amongst others two virtual programmes – the Design School Programme for aspiring product designers seeking to start a career in tech and the Future Females Business School programme for early-stage female entrepreneurs with tech-enabled businesses in Nigeria.
UK supports South African female GreenTech entrepreneurs
The UK will support 30 South African female founders through the Future Females Business School GreenTech programme.
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11 January 2021
The UK, powered by the UK-South Africa Tech Hub and in partnership with the Future Females Business School, will support 30 female entrepreneurs to grow their GreenTech businesses.
As the world looks to manage its way out of the COVID-crisis, which has affected millions of lives and decimated economies, it is important to remember we are still tackling an even greater crisis – climate change. But we also have an opportunity now to drive clean, resilient and inclusive recoveries - shaping the low carbon economy of the future that will create new jobs, attract green investment and protecting the global environment for future generations.