Muhammad Sarim Imran (Saro Imran)

Muhammad Sarim Imran (Saro Imran) is a young transgender activist and entrepreneur. She has been advocating for the rights of marginalized communities for the last five years through various national and international platforms including the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR). She also developed a community-based organization in her region called Activists Alliance Foundation (AAGAHE), which envisions a society where all transgender people can live with dignity, self respect, enjoying equal social justice and wellbeing. Through the incubator, she hopes to build a sense of ownership and activism in the transgender community in southern Punjab and empower them to ask [...]

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N’DIAYE Oumar

N’DIAYE Oumar holds a Degree in Engineering and Network Systems and is passionate about information and communication technologies. As an an entrepreneur he works with various companies specialized in computer science. Through the incubator he intends to develop an African video sharing and viewing application that will energize local African creation and culture. Vakozé is a video communication tool that will allow artists, bloggers, brands and internet users in general to broadcast their videos to reach a 90% African audience.

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Naway Gumeh

Naway Gumeh  is a responsible and committed journalist who displays an ability to write balanced, informative and engaging stories that give all involved parties an opportunity to have their say. He works as an investigative reporter responsible for writing news as well as providing coverage on political and economic events. He is also the host of Prime FM’s evening flagship program dubbed “The Brumm” (Tuesdays and Thursdays). Through the Accountability Incubator program, he intends to hold people and institutions responsible for their words and actions, whether it is through political fact-checking, investigations or other forms of reportage.

2021-02-15T11:14:56+00:0018th March 2020|

Nishant Khanal

Nishant Khanal is engaged in economic research, public policy, regional trade and development economics in South Asia. He has experience working on regional integration, poverty alleviation, leadership development and fund-raising in South Asia. He is a cofounder of Alankar Innovations, a digital media and social innovation platform that works on disaster, media and citizen engagement. Through the incubator he plans to develop NDR, an open forum to review development discourse in Nepal. It will be an open knowledge platform aimed at offering a critique on development practice and discussions in the country. The development initiatives in Nepal will be discussed [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Pratik Kunwar

Pratik Kunwar is a social entrepreneur and development professional. He is currently the Managing Director at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Nepal. He is also a Global Shaper, a South Asia Connect participant (2018) and a Future Global Leaders program fellow (2018). Through the incubator, he plans to develop Shaasan, an initiative that makes actionable information accessible to the public, and their concerns immediately reachable to concerned political representatives. They do this by creating a decentralized cloud infrastructure with the oversight and analytics of a centralized civic data hub. A citizen can hold public officials accountable for their [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Rakesh Prasad Chaudhary

Rakesh Prasad Chaudhary is a journalist and social activist. He has worked as a freelance journalist for various local media outlets and is the founder of Visit Jaleshwar, a project aimed at empowering local youth by training them on digital literacy and craft production. As a part of Visit Jaleshwar, Rakesh’s wants to work on women empowerment through the incubator by providing women a platform to produce and sell the Mithila arts and crafts they produce. He also intends to engage youth in this platform for digital marketing through social media.

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Sheran Panazai

Sheran Panazai has five years of professional experience in the nonprofit sector and has also worked as a volunteer with various social ventures. Sheran aims to engage youth globally on a single platform where they can share, learn and re-learn ideas and bring them into action. He was recently selected for the Dalai Lama Fellow 2019 and Emerging Leaders of Pakistan Program 2016 for his work in preventing violent extremism. He is currently working as Project Lead at Tyche & Thoth. Through the incubator, he plans to develop an online system that will empower both senior government officers and civilians [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Silas N. Juaquellie

Silas N. Juaquellie has 10 years of experience working in development. He specialized in the educational sector a result-oriented professional with rich experience on evidence-based administrative approaches, training, civic engagement, community-based support programs, theatre skills development and human rights. He is the National Director of Burning Barriers Building Bridges Youth Theatre (B4YT) Liberia Inc., and a District Education officer at the Ministry of education. His program aims to promote access to justice and the development of a peaceful society for young Liberians in school through the arts. He believes that with adequate awareness, especially among the youth, this project will [...]

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Stanford A. Joe

Stanford A. Joe has 14 years of experience working with youth from the church, community and the world. He also has nine years of experience in the non-profit sector and earned two Bachelor’s Degrees in Economics and Accounting from the African Methodist Episcopal University and Accounting and Criminal Justice from the African Methodist Episcopal Zion University. Stanford is also a 2018 graduate from the Young Political Leadership School, Semester Five and a Minister of the gospel, Assemblies of God Liberia Incorporated. Stanford has worked with several international and local organizations including Welthungerhilfe (Ex-German Agro Action), World Bank through the West [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Suman Ali Lashari

Suman Ali Lashari is a young human right activist. At the age of 18 in 2016, she survived an acid attack from her 40-year old brother in-law whose marriage proposal she had rejected. In 2018, after fighting for 17 months, she won her battle for justice. Suman is now working on legislation for acid attack crime and the licensing of open sale acid in Pakistan. Suman is the first acid attack survivor in Pakistan who is a social media activist with her real identity of ”acid survivor” promoting woman empowerment in Pakistan. Through the incubator, Suman wants to start a [...]

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