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Buea-based African job search engine Njorku rolled out a major update to its platform this week, with an eye toward improving relevance of search results, performance and scalability. Additionally, they have expanded their offerings to include job search in Uganda and Egypt. The Njorku search engine crawls websites with job and classified listings serving African [...]
Connecting BarCamps Ethiopia & Cameroon
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22 Sep 2011BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences (or unconferences) typically geared around technology, media, startups, open data, society and so on. They are open, participatory workshop events, the content of which is provided by participants. In keeping with tradition, there is no set speaker list before the day of the event and everyone is [...]
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At the Yaoundé Conference Center from July 14th – 15th, the World Bank hosted the finals of the Development Marketplace, a competitive program which had as objective to select and fund innovative projects with high potential for development impact. From 230 project proposals that had been submitted by civil society organizations covering the 10 regions [...]
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When Richard Anderson (our most recent visiting fellow) introduced the kids at “Silicon Mountain” to Scratch, we knew we had a calling. For a long time we had focused our activities on a more mature age group, but Scratch reminds us that we need to get ICT4D leaders in the proper mindset from a tender [...]
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- Tags: fun, games, hackers, learning, MIT, outreach, programming, Scratch
For a long time we’ve needed a dedicated ambassador for ActivSpaces — someone to do outreach, strengthen ties within Cameroon’s tech community and generally help us carry our vision forward. Over the last year, these duties have been shared by the part-time contributions of our co-founders. We’re very focused on tech projects, however, and realized [...]
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- Tags: entrepreneurship, grants, growth, Indigo Trust, leadership, media, mentorship, outreach, partners, people, programs, strategy, team
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- Al Banda (@TribeOfLions) (@TribeOfLions): @mungyeh #PowerHourCMR w/ @ismosoft of I-Dispo tomorrow @ Akwa Palace http://t.co/mgkO1fDQ - Would l [...]
- OA News: December 15-18, 2011 » oAfrica: [...] Buea-based African job search engine Njorku rolled out a major update to its platform this wee [...]
- African Entrepreneur (@africatechie) (@africatechie): Cameroon-based startup Njorku scales up its job search engine, expands listings to Uganda & Egyp [...]
- mambenanje (@mambenanje): when I see articles like this http://t.co/ZKvxgFou all I can do is smile [...]
- Olivia Mukam (@sankara1111) (@sankara1111): Support @ActivSpaces + @TribeOfLions streetlighting projct w/ a tweet! http://t.co/JZuPb02z & Re [...]
- Power Hour with Ismael Nzouetom
- Njorku Job Search Engine Scales Up, Expands Offerings
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- Activ Insights: Introducing Invested Development
- Join us for Global Entrepreneurship Week
- Digital Storytelling Workshop in Kameroen!
- Meet Niels Jansen & the Digital Storytelling Workshop
- Book of the Month: Getting Real by 37 Signals
- Live Event: Activ Insights with Ringier & Kitendo Capital
- Activ Insights: Introducing Ringier Group & Kitendo Capital
