Setting up a successful business and working for yourself is the dream career for many, but a combination of innovation, vision, organisation and trusting your instinct is what makes a successful entrepreneur. Women in the UAE are leading entrepreneurship into a new era of enrichment as more females are coming forward to turn their ideas...
Category: Entrepreneurship
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Creating Conducive Environment for Shepreneurs
Sharjah (UAE), March 15th, 2017: Since the UAE gained its independence in the 1970s, Emirati women have worked side-by-side with their male counterparts towards the nations advancement and achievement. The invaluable efforts and sound guidance by the UAEs wise leadership to uplift womens status have led the UAE to topping global ranking in terms of...
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HERstory profile: Mona Ataya
How did you get this novel idea to start your business? You could say Mumzworld was born out of firsthand frustration of not being able to find the right products for my children, let alone being able to find them in one place. As a parent, you are information hungry, you are risk averse and...
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TechWomen Comes to Pakistan!
TechWomen is accepting applications for the 2017 program. For the first time in the history of TechWomen, the application will be open to women from Pakistan. “We’re excited to welcome them to the community along with women leaders from Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia,” says Arezoo Riahi, director TechWomen. In total, 100 TechWomen...
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The Jewelry That Can Save Womens Lives
Imagine a crowd ready to take action in emergency situations, a bunch of people who will always be nearby to help as quickly as possible. Imagine if this crowd could be activated with a click of a button. Sounds good, right? We would be creating a safer environment! Now stop imagining. This is exactly what...
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Coming Full Circle to Empower
One of the foremost obstacles professional women face in their career is clearly illustrating inspiration. Although women are poised to play a pivotal role in taking leadership positions in the fourth industrial revolution, there is a yawning gap in giving women opportunities to rise up to their career; in addition to a dire need for...
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Whats holding women back at Pakistans international tech event?
Half of the population of the world is women. Termed as the next billion, women are touted as the torchbearers of global sustainable development. Reams of paper have been written, scores of posts published about the critical role of women in every sphere of society, be it economic, political, social and most importantly technological. From...
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Enabling Empowerment Digitally
NEW YORK CITY Its one thing for a successful Technology Entrepreneur in her early thirties, from South Africa, to challenge the male-dominated bastions of Silicon This & That, in the United States, Canada, UK, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Asia, Middle East and other locales around the globe and, beat the boys at their own...
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Crunching the numbers
Tell us about yourself and your professional journey? My name is Wangechi Mwangi, Im 22 years old and a student at Strathmore University. I started my first project when I was 17, which was a community-based program. We got young people together and built a social network platform and through that we did community-building activities,...
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Empowered Voice of the Filipina
We all see things and people through some sort of lenses. Now, whether they be rose-tinted ones or heavily-darkened by negative bias or prejudice, mainly depends on what we have been told, taught, and what we have experienced. In the UAE where people from various ethnic backgrounds merge into one rich, collective melting pot, there...