Business & Technology

Meet CAMpreneur Olivia Mukam – Our Social Entrepreneur

Posted By admin on Aug 26, 2011

A social entrepreneur recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create and manage a venture to achieve social change (a social venture)[Source:Wikipedia] Meet our social entrepreneur…Ms. Olivia Mukam Born in Yaounde on November 11th, 1987, Olivia Mukam obtained her High School Diploma from the American School of Yaoundé in 2005. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in...

CAMpreneur Fri Forjindam Bailey Launches Wedding Nouveau Magazine!

Posted By admin on Jul 6, 2011

CAMpreneur, Fri Forjindam Bailey launches Wedding Nouveau Magazine on July 11th 2011….What inspired you to start Wedding Nouveau?….The wedding Nouveau storyIt came up as an after thought really while planning my own wedding in 2008. I moved to the US as an impressionable teenager, however, there’s a strong and unchangeable core that is uniquely Cameroonian. Wedding planning is challenging enough as is, so when you...

Meet CAMpreneur Film makers, THE NAMBANGI BROTHERS..

Posted By admin on May 29, 2011

Introducing “The Nambangi Brothers”, a production company founded by three brothers. The film and multimedia company consists of graphic artists and multimedia experts and marketing consultants. “Our objective is to go full time into film production, but we’re professional marketers too so we do operate as marketing consultants for small businesses (concept, implementation, advertising and promo)” Here is...

CAMpreneur Eyembe Elango gives us the “411” about doing Business in Africa

Posted By admin on May 16, 2011

With over 10 years of experience as an Industrial Engineer/ Quality Engineer in Automotive manufacturing & Consulting, CAMpreneur, Eyembe Elango is now what I call an “AfriBiz” expert (lol)…. With a lot of untapped resources, an ever increasing middle class and growing young population, Africa seems to be the next big thing!! The “411” about doing business in Africa…. .. about your...

CAMpreneur, Kathleen Ndongmo wins Tech-In Series!

Posted By admin on Apr 28, 2011

Introducing the “CAMpreneur” series.The goal is to showcase Cameroonian entrepreneurs…… CAMpreneur Ms. Kathleen Ndongmo won the Tech-in Series-Tech-in Governance event held in March 2011 in Lagos Nigeria. About Tech-in Tech-In = tech innovation and application in ‘select sector and social issues’. “Tech-IN Series is a quarterly unusual event aimed at harnessing the power of technology for...

Technology Adoption + Sustainable Technology?

Posted By admin on Jan 30, 2011

Call me a “technophobe” or old-fashioned,but I think technology (meant to improve communication) has made people more “anti-social”.What happened to having a random conversation with someone on the bus or plane, or a phone call? Now it is either “BB to BB”, everyone on their iphone/ipad/laptop/kindle etc.I have a phone book…lesson learnt from phones “crashing”.As per the Technology...

Developing Technology for the “Developing World”

Posted By admin on May 15, 2009

I had a interesting discussion with yet again my IT guru friend, Uche (u don become blog famous…lol!), a couple of weeks ago about the challenges involved in developing technology for the “3rd World”. We were discussing about the issues he has to address in a web project he is currently working on! While in developed countries the focus is on upgrades to existing technologies, individuals, businesses &...