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21.09.2018 Business & Finance

Largest Digital Pllatform For African Entrepreneurs To Be Unveiled

By Ebenezer Sabutey | JoyBusiness
Largest Digital Pllatform For African Entrepreneurs To Be Unveiled
21.09.2018 LISTEN

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), is launching the world’s largest digital platform for African entrepreneurs and the African entrepreneurship ecosystem – TEFConnect.

TEFConnect will officially be unveiled at this year’s TEF Forum, taking place on October 25, 2018, in Lagos, Nigeria.

TEFConnect is an open source platform, which will provide bespoke tools and content to catalyse business development for millions across the continent, through technology and directly applicable content.

Positioned as the “Facebook for African Entrepreneurs”, the TEFConnect platform is a contemporary, intuitive, informative and user-friendly go-to entrepreneurship space, that provides five specific benefits to its users, among others:

The platform one-stop digital home for entrepreneurship ecosystem players, including entrepreneurs, incubators, investors, academia and the private sector, providing news, informative resources, entrepreneurship events and opportunities.

It will also create the space to allow African entrepreneurs to transact across countries and regions in Africa's largest digital marketplace, with traffic reaching millions of consumers.

TEFConnect Access to free business tools such as financial planning calculators, business plan generators and marketing templates.

It will help access to the Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Programme Application Form, Enterprise Toolkit and business mentoring by global business leaders, enabling entrepreneurs to promote their businesses to potential investors and other entrepreneurs for cross-border collaboration.

Speaking on the launch of TEFConnect, the CEO of the Foundation, Parminder Vir OBE said: “The Tony Elumelu Foundation is simply about empowering African entrepreneurs. First, we launched the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, to provide 10,000 African entrepreneurs, over a period of 10 years with seed capital, mentorship and training.

Next, we convened the full entrepreneurial ecosystem at the TEF Forum to formal engagement and deliberate discussions to change the narrative of Africa. Now, we are scaling our impact by connecting African entrepreneurship ecosystem on a single platform.”

The Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony O. Elumelu, CON also said: “In the four years, since the launch of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, we have shown that entrepreneurship can change a continent – we have invested in people and processes. We have already helped create business successes and brought policymakers into the entrepreneurial dynamic. But in many ways, we are scratching the surface.

This year we are broadening our scope, taking the conversation to where interaction is increasingly occurring – the digital realm. By connecting African entrepreneurs globally on TEFConnect, we are further unleashing the true potential of our entrepreneurs and transforming the continent”.

The 4th TEF Forum will convene Africa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, including the broad investor community, government and policymakers, leading developmental organisations, private sector representatives, the media and partners.

This year’s Forum will also feature an interactive dialogue between the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo and President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, moderated by TEF Founder, Tony Elumelu.

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