Emerging Communities Africa founded in 2017, is an organization focused on catalysing technology development in emerging communities across Africa. This is because we believe that technology is a major tool to leverage social solutions.
Emerging Communities Africa supports the creation
and development of sustainable, globally competitivetech startups and SMEs to solve social challenges in sectors like agriculture, education, health, food, arts, transport or security in Nigeria.
We also raise awareness on gender inclusion achievingwomen’s economic empowerment and eliminating gender gaps at work. We build our strategy around the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations tofocus on social impact.
OUR VISION
Establishing and supporting innovation ecosystems within underserved communities across Africa.
OUR MISSION
Growing enterprise and human capital within underserved communities by providing access to critical soft skills, infrastructure and funding to help catalyse the growth of innovation ecosystems across Africa.
OUR FOCUS
- Innovation Consultancy and Hub Management.
- Human Capital Development Hackathons and Crowd
- Sourcing Solution Support STEM in women and girls
- Digital Literacy Skills for Underserved Areas
- Cluster of organizations focused on development and innovation
MEET THE TEAM
ABOUT
Oluwamayowa Israel AGBOOLA is a Creative Designer. He is also an expert in transferable skills such as Communications, Content Development, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media Management.
He have conveniently functioned in the Academia and Innovation in the Tech space wherein I acquired more soft skills to add to the plethora of skills.
He is presently the Lead Graphic Designer of the Akure Tech Hub in Ondo State.
He is an outburst of creativity and a bibliophile, always ready to learn, putting his skills to use, and acquiring new skills on every and every platform he present himself. He is energetic about spanning Africa technologically with innovative creativity.
ABOUT
Benson Ira Iji, is a Technology Futurist, and Creative Tech Consultant; a graduate of English who veered into Information Communications Technology, and has since been in the digital and technological space.
He obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from the Benue State University, Makurdi to help fuel his passion in Broadcast Media and Journalism.
In his bid to practice a more robust digital and technological media career, he sought the best ways to practice beyond the conventional journalism, a quest that drove him fully into the tech space and now a Tech Consultant with Amazing Impressions Ltd., a tech-based Media company, setup to inform clients and proffer solutions on how best to introduce IT practices to achieve their business objectives.
He is currently serving as the Manager of the Akure Tech Hub in Ondo State and is also Member of the Emerging Communities Africa team working on implementing the AfriConEU project here in Nigeria, ensuring the active involvement of Nigerian ecosystem builders and entrepreneurs in the AfriConEU activities.
He is passionate about bridging the digital and technological gap in Nigeria and Africa at large.
