Africa’s
leading entrepreneurship focused philanthropy, The Tony Elumelu
Foundation, 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, at Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria.
Harnessing
and building on the success of Africa’s largest entrepreneurship
catalyst, the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme, which
has attracted over 300,000 African entrepreneurs
as applicants and trained and funded 4,460 to date, the Foundation is
further democratising access to opportunity. 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 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.
- Creating the space to allow African entrepreneurs to transact across countries and regions in Africa's largest digital marketplace, with traffic reaching millions of consumers.
- Access to free business tools such as financial planning calculators, business plan generators and marketing templates.
- 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 provde 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
forment 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 policy makers 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, HE Nana Akufo-Addo and President of Kenya, HE Uhuru
Kenyatta, moderated by TEF Founder, Tony Elumelu.
To attend the TEF Forum or watch the unveil of TEFConnect live, click here:
www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/tef-forum2018
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