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 [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:44+00:0018th March 2020|

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.

2021-02-08T09:24:44+00:0018th March 2020|

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|

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi is a multimedia Investigative Freelance and a Data Science Journalist, reporting for Today95.1 FM, Port Harcourt and a columnist for Climate Reporters, a West African news site that publishes both in English and French. Through the incubator, she wants to continue investigating the need for the Government to provide quality healthcare services for all, especially those in rural communities, and hold health workers accountable. As a community reporter, she visits communities to find out their challenges and report in a way that brings government and non-profit organizations’ attention to these issues. She recently embarked on an investigation on [...]

2021-02-08T09:37:39+00:0018th March 2020|

Emmanuel Kaboshio Bagudu

Emmanuel Kaboshio Bagudu is a multimedia Journalist currently residing in Abuja. Besides holding a Bachelor of Arts (BA. Hons.) in Theatre and Performing Arts from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Emmanuel has over the years engaged in different advocacy initiatives using the development communications strategy. Organisations such as the Premium Times, the British Broadcasting Corporation, The Nigerian Television Authority, and many civil society organisations have benefitted from his expertise. He is among the three winners of the 2020 edition of the SDG 16 innovation challenge in Nigeria organised by Accountability Lab. Through the incubator he intends to grow his initiative the [...]

2021-02-08T09:37:49+00:0018th March 2020|

Fouad Bajwa

Fouad Bajwa has been actively involved with open technology, public policy and entrepreneurship. He has worked globally with various initiatives targeted at bringing open and low- cost technology to the less privileged. He is contributing to startups in the areas of artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, public policy and governance. A mass skills dissemination program promoting learning, community and recognition that tries to remove the barriers that stand in the way of acquiring skills.

2021-02-08T09:37:44+00:0018th March 2020|

Hassan Nurudeen

Hassan Nurudeen is currently the Programs and Operations Manager for Raising New Voices, a non-profit that advocates for good, inclusive governance and promotes civic education among the youth in Nigeria. The New Voices Citizen fellowship is a citizens participatory program geared towards encouraging, educating and supporting citizens in the grassroots communities advocating for local community issues. Fellows are required to identify a community challenge or issue that they are passionate about and will be working to solve during their fellowship. Issues the organization’s fellows are currently working on include access to quality education, maternal health challenges in primary health care [...]

2021-02-08T10:32:51+00:0018th March 2020|

Honey-Ann Ndubuisi

Honey-Ann Ndubuisi is a lawyer turned filmmaker. She believes that film is a powerful tool for advocacy and has spent the last three years building her capacity in filmmaking. Her debut film “Numb” addresses the issue of child abuse. It was screened at various film festivals including African International Film Festival (AFRIFF), Eko International Film Festival and Abuja International Film Festival. She has produced other films including “Man On the Bridge”, a documentary on domestic violence supported by the United States Embassy and Premonition. She is also an alumnus of the Integrity Icon Film Fellowship during which she was a [...]

2021-02-08T10:32:56+00:0018th March 2020|

Huzaifa Hussain

Huzaifa Hussain is an entrepreneur. In his over 15 years of experience, he has successfully implemented development sector projects worth over US$1 million. These projects were in the range of capacity building programs for chambers and association across Pakistan, start up coaching, business consultancy for trading companies and SME’s. He is currently working as an adjunct faculty member at the IOBM & Bahria University Karachi. He also contributes time as social worker in which he is an active worker in community based initiative on business upliftment programs. Through the incubator, he will work closely with the private sector to create [...]

2021-02-08T10:33:02+00:0018th March 2020|
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