The coding lessons which the ladies prior to their the training had no knowledge in, concluded with presentations from all participants which was a criteria to go into the the next stage of the programme.

The next stage which is the incubator stage will take a period of six (6) months, where participants will go through lessons on business development, business model generation, marketing strategy and will climax the training by building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). The total number of ladies who have made it for the incubator stage number up to twenty-one (21).

iSpace apart from training these ladies in the aforementioned will also support their various businesses by buying out rightly domains for their websites, registering their businesses and also provide seed fund for their start-ups, coupled with assigning them to a mentor.

The businesses going through the incubator stage include the likes of Sabary Travel and Tour which is a travel and tour agency which seeks to promote Ghana’s best tourists sites and organise trips for locals and foreigners.

Other businesses include Mukasi ,R-smile Cottons, Fizle Cleaners, N & A Organics, Shebab Forex Exchange, The Agric hub Ghana, Ugwu Merchants,NDIIBO, EUUEES kiddy events, Pals Network, Djay,  Adepa Market, Union –Aid,  ADCA, Culmabate, Influential, Monger, Verte Leben, Allyn Foods, Findfix.

Speaking about the efforts that iSpace as a tech hub, start-ups and entrepreneurial advocates, Ms. Nma Favour Ozichukwu, the Program Manager argued that “iSpace’s Unlocking Women and Technology is a project that has been impactful in the lives of many young ladies over the years and as such, we are always determined to see through the realization of the ladies exploits and start-ups. This incubation stage will help finetune their ideas”.

She also added that, iSpace will be partnering local tech hubs in 4 regions across Ghana, specifically Volta region, Northern region, Ashanti region and Brong Ahafo region in their attempt to take iSpace’s flagship program UWAT nationwide, to get enrolled visit www.unlockingwat.com. The ladies who have began the incubator programme also expressed their satisfaction with the coding and business development classes and are looking forward to the next stage which is the Accelerator, where they will scale their Startups.

iSpace is located at Labone, adjacent Bosphorous restaurant and works through Monday to Saturday offering tech activities for adults and kids, Business Development classes for Startups and Seed Funding for those who enrol in their program, as it is known to be the only Ghanaian owned tech hub building the local tech ecosystem.

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Mr Josiah Eyison, Founder of iSpace, said the hub trained people, especially young women who wanted to be entrepreneurs, but lack the technology and resources to start up their businesses.

“We provide resources for people who want to start off their businesses to become entrepreneurs. We offer training in business development and technology. We refine business ideas into real businesses by making available a conducive stage for start ups to grow,” he said.

Mr Eyison added that, iSpace is also responsible for funding the launch of the business, buying a website domain for advertisement of products and also register the various businesses for participants since “money is usually the headache for most people to start up their businesses”.

“iSpace is a locally owned hub in Ghana and run by Ghanaians so we understand our community and try to find solutions that would best curb these problems especially when it comes to technology and women”.

“I believe that to end poverty you have to equip women. Technology is not a physical thing but mental and women should be the ones to do it better that’s why we are unlocking women in technology,” he explained.

“So far we have thirty-three people pitching their businesses out of which twenty-eight are women,” he noted.

Sabena Adams, a participant, said she was amazed by the support given them by Ispace, saying, “iSpace has been really helpful through training and coaching and today I get to pitch my business idea and I’m very happy.”

“My business is to promote Moslem women who do not have a balance between their faith and social life. I want the Moslem woman to understand how to blend her dressing and still be that religious woman and a regular woman any day.”

Salma Mohammed, another participant also expressed her gratitude to iSpace for the opportunity to make her long nurtured business dream almost become a reality.

She also urged young people to join in the technology world to achieve their business dreams “If you have a business idea and don’t know how to go about it, iSpace is the best place for you to make that dream a reality so come join us,” she said.

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Source: GNA

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The project which equipped ladies with Coding and entrepreneur skills, came to a successful conclusion with an investor pitch to get into Unlocking Women and Technology Accelerator.

Participants, comprising only ladies, were trained in computer programing, technology tools for business and tasked to develop web portals relevant to their line of businesses and areas of interest.

An all-female panel of judges was selected to give feedback on their pitch presentation and also score them according to how releant their businesses are to the Ghanaian economy.

Judges comprised: Tracy Kyei of Samsung Electronic West Africa, Nana Akosua Hanson of Yfm and Ama Aboagye of USAID. Participants were given some few minutes to pitch their innovative businesses to the judges and answer questions raised by the panel of judges.

“A project like this is very relevant to our part of the world because it targets women, who are a huge emerging market these days and manufacturers who have realised the purchasing power of women have tailored specific products to suit them,” said Tracy Kyei.

She went on to commend the organizers for their innovation and encouraged them to make subsequent editions bigger. “There are many ways of empowering women, however this project is one of a kind, where women are pushed to their limits to think outside the box and come up with such brilliant ideas,” Tracy added.

During the pitch, participants presented web businesses/ apps that improved doing business in Ghana and providing easier access for consumers, for instance Apps that can help users find prescription drugs at near-by pharmacies, ones that connected people with financial distress to Philanthropists and donors.

The project was a 12-week intensive program at Mobile Web Ghana aimed at helping participants secure either funding for their ideas or gain an entry in the UWAT acceleration program.

After the pitch, Founder of Ispace Ghana, Kwesi Josiah Eyison said, “In this competition no one is a winner; everyone will win something”.

He continued by giving the benefits for the participants. “Some of you would get full funding and mentorship to implement your ideas whiles others would benefit from the mentorship program, so everyone is a winner,” Mr. Eyison added. Finally he commended the Director of Mobile Web Ghana, Madam Florence Toffa and her entire team for facilitating the 12-week mentorship program for the ladies.

Winners of the pitch will be announced in January, 2017. Mobile Web Ghana and Ispace launched the “Unlocking women in technology project in August, 2016”.

The project was aimed at training women in technology, to improve their education and enhance business efficiencies.

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Source: Mobile web Ghana

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