{"id":15470,"date":"2017-11-23T11:36:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T11:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.francinebeleyi.com\/?p=15470"},"modified":"2025-04-23T19:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:07:57","slug":"digitalisation-and-techpreneurship-in-africa-9th-au-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francinebeleyi.com\/digitalisation-and-techpreneurship-in-africa-9th-au-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitalisation and Techpreneurship in Africa &#8211; 9th AU Forum 2017 Round-Up in Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a privilege to be invited by the African Union Commission to participate to the <a href=\"https:\/\/au.int\/en\/9psf\" target=\"_blank\">9<sup>th<\/sup> AU Private Sector Forum<\/a> on \u201cAccelerating Africa\u2019s Industrialization through Digitalization and Youth Techpreneurship\u201d in Pretoria 13-15 November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>I specially loved hearing the pitch of inspiring #techentrepreneurs from #Africa including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yytzagro.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.yytzagro.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weflyagri.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.weflyagri.com\/en\/<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wekebere.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.wekebere.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a photo gallery of with some of the entrepreneurs, speakers and organisers of the forum from the Commission of African Union &#8211; with\u00a0Dr Ren<em>\u00e9<\/em> N\u2019Guettia Kouassi, NEPAD Business Foundation led by Lynette Chang, Department of Science and Technology (DST) of South Africa and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andalem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andalem<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 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