About the speaker
Rudo Nyangulu is a creative at heart with photography being her creative outlet. She is a Zimbabwean lawyer and enterprise development specialist and is passionate about mentoring young people, entrepreneurship and economic empowerment of women and young people in Africa. She founded and currently runs Zimbabwe’s the first mixed-sector innovation hub called Stimulus Africa and is a trainer and mentor in its incubation programme. She is also the founder of an initiative called Choose Women: Buy Local that creates market linkages for women-owned enterprises. Rudo is a Mandela Washington Fellow, a founding member of the Innovators Forum Zimbabwe and she participates in policy advocacy for private sector development.
Local partners
When a giraffe is born, it drops from a height of nearly 2 metres to the ground and is up and running within an hour!
That is similar to the story of uMAX – the POTRAZ license was granted, and with that the task of launching a whole new, very different Internet service! The uMAX team immediately swung into action, and have brought the super-fast, highly stable broadband Internet service that is uMAX to Harare within a year – now that is truly shaking a hoof!
Additional details
On this day we talk about “Developing a Creative Economy” in Zimbabwe: Opportunities for Creatives!