African Union inducts Digital and Innovation Fellows to drive digital innovation in Africa
African Union inducts Digital and Innovation Fellows to drive digital innovation in Africa
WHAT: Team building workshop for fellows of the African Union Youth Digital and Innovation Fellows
WHO: African Union Commission, Women, Gender and Youth Directorate, GIZ and Afrilabs
Speakers:
Ambassador Fathallah Sijilmassi, AUC Director General
Ms. Prudence Ngwenya, Ag. Director Women, Gender and Youth Directorate, AUC
Franz Von Weizsaecker, Head of Project, DataCipation Project
Mr. Ademola Adesina, Advisor, GIZ
Mr. Nanko Madu, Director of Programmes for Afrilabs
Ms Chido Cleopatra Mpemba, AU Youth Envoy
WHEN: Thursday, 7th April 2022- 8th April, 2022, 9:00am -11:30 am(EAT)
WHERE: The induction workshop is a hybrid event, held partially in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and virtually.
BACKGROUND
The African Union Commission’s Youth Division within the Women, Gender and Youth Directorate (WGYD), in partnership with GIZ and AfriLabs, will hold an induction workshop for 10 AU Digital and Innovation Fellows. These young African fellows will be groomed and trained to co-create and build innovative tailor-made products and processes that improve the delivery of the AU’s mandate around Agenda 2063 and build internal capacity of host departments.
Launched in September 2021, the fellowship program has recruited its 1st cohort of 10 young Africans who will harness digital technologies and innovation to transform African societies and economies.
The fellows will be deployed to the African Union Commission for a period of 12 months and they are expected to contribute to national, regional and global initiatives aimed at advancing the aspirations of Agenda 2063.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Journalists are invited to cover the event.
Registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclfu6vrzIsG9YlII_U_S1TYGxOzqd7Jc1w
NOTE TO EDITORS
About the African Union Youth Digital and Innovation Fellowship Programme
The Thirty-Six Ordinary Session of the AU Executive Council endorsed the Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa (DTS) which contributes to harnessing digital technologies and innovation to transform African societies and economies to promote Africa's integration, generate inclusive economic growth, stimulate job creation, break the digital divide, and eradicate poverty for the continent’s socio-economic development and ensure Africa’s ownership of modern tools of digital management.
The Tech Fellowship programme is envisaged as a robust fellowship programme that identifies and deploys highly competent tech innovators within the continent to units within the African Union Headquarters and organs as resident fellows to understand the system within those units; identify challenges within the system and propose solutions to these challenges.
For further media inquiries, please contact:
Ms. Priscilla Mawuena Adjeidu, Communications Officer, AUC Youth Division: AdjeiduP@africa-union.org
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