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Participant Biographies Mr. Limbikani Makani – Zimbabwe Founder & Managing Editor, TechZim Mr. Makani is the founder of TechZim, Zimbabwe’s leading technology website featuring product reviews and local IT news. With 3,000 page views per day, TechZim has set its sights on building a culture of start-ups and innovation in Zimbabwe. Mr. Makani is a fixture in the Zimbabwe online and technology community, writing, speaking and appearing at all of Harare’s main technology events. Working with so many smart, young technology entrepreneurs, technologists, and developers led him to launch the JumpStart Community Initiative. JumpStart is meant to help this new crop of techies and entrepreneurs find ways to advance their skills, receive mentorship, and collaborate on ideas. So far the community initiative has been a success and has received support from local established businesses. Mr. Erikson Malwa – Namibia Technical Product Development Manager, Namibia Dairies (Pty) Ltd and Founder, Talamo Foods Mr. Malwa is founder of Talamo Foods, a family-owned and operated business employing five people. Talamo Foods is a food processing company that procudes sauces and condiments for distribution. Currently, the company distributes about 240 bottles of sauces to four local supermarkets in Windhoek. In a recent newspaper profile, Mr. Malwa revealed his view of how individuals can play a role in Namibia’s economic development, saying “I promised myself that one day I will reverse the situation of Namibia being a net importer of sauces to being amongst the exporters of sauces and condiments.” Mr. Kenneth Nickson Oliko – Nigeria Communication and Advocacy Associate, Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal, Newborn and Child Mortality in Africa (housed within the African Union Commission) Mr. Oliko has created an online presence for an international and multi-institutional campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal, Newborn and Child Mortality in Africa (CARMMA) as part of his portfolio with the African Union Commission (AUC). The AUC is an inter-governmental, regional organization with approximately 1,500 staff and estimated annual budget of $250 million. In 2009, Mr. Oliko worked as the Creative Project Coordinator of the Future Project, organizing the Future Awards which is one of Africa’s largest youth events. He also planned and executed The Future Enterprises Support Scheme (TFESS), a program for young Nigerians to take classes and receive training in TV presenting, writing, acting, directing and entrepreneurial studies. Mr. Oliko is planning on starting a community-based education and vocational training center. 38
Participant Biographies Ms. Dorinda Saawah Saah – Ghana Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dream Environment Established in 2010, Dream Environment aims to help protect the environment from the harmful effects of poor waste oil disposal through offering education and training in the areas where scrap dealers operate. With a permanent staff of four and annual budget of $200,000, Ms. Saah is the main strategist, mobilizer and fundraiser for the NGO. The organization hopes to eventually develop an integrated waste management system to serve as a blueprint for waste management disposal in Ghana. Dream Environment is also currently working with several rural communities to promote the use of green stoves as an alternative to wood as a source of energy supply. In addition to her NGO, Ms. Saah played the lead role in developing the program and organizing the summit on “Empowering Africa to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals” in Kumasi (April 2012). She has also been invited to South Africa to participate in the Ecovillage Design Education Train-the-Trainer Program. Ms. Saah is a recipient of a State Department Young African Women Leaders Grant, which she used to organize a “Clean Up your Corner” campaign engaging students, community and religious leaders in environmental protection. Ms. Refiloe Seseane – South Africa Founder of 18twenty8 18twenty8 is an award-winning non-profit organization that empowers young women from disadvantaged backgrounds by developing strategies for their educational and personal development. Ms. Seseane oversees the organization and leads its fundraiding activities. Ms. Seseane also has had several lead acting roles in South Africa’s top television soap operas. She previously worked as a business news anchor for CNBC Africa and a resident voice-over artist for a number of programs and commercials on both television and radio. She was named one of the Top Young South Africans by the Mail and Guardian Newspaper in June 2011and participated in the 2011 Young African Women Leaders’ Forum with First Lady Michelle Obama. Ms. Rachel Chavula Sibande – Malawi Deputy Chief of Party & Market Information Systems Specialist, The Market Linkages Initiative- Bridging Activity Project Ms. Sibande is one of the few young Malawian women in the ICT field. Market Linkages Initiative- Bridging Activity Project is a USAID-funded project aimed at supporting the ongoing transformation of structured and transparent commodity trading systems in Malawi. The project has five permanent staff and three short-term consultants. She led the roll out and implementation of the first-ever web to SMS Market Information System Platform in Malawi using the Esoko platform. Currently, over 4,000 farmers are receiving price information through this system. She is also lending support to commercial technology through the Agricultural Commodity Exchange. 39
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