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 [...]

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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|

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|

Ismail Auwal

Ismail Auwal is an anti-corruption advocate with a passion for building tranparent, accountable institutions. He was inspired to become an innovator due to his passion for technology, which he believes should be an enabler in fighting corruption. At the age of 25, he became the Anticorruption Thematic Area Co-lead in the Kano State Open Governance partnership (OGP). He plans to mobilize and work with Community members in curbing the menace of corruption. 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 plans to [...]

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Aba Sangare

Aba Sangare is the owner of a communication company called Baniko House located in Garantiguibougou where he employs two people. Arrêt is a platform that will allow young Malian filmmakers and underground musical groups from across the country to share their work.

2021-02-08T09:24:46+00:0018th March 2020|

Jayaa Jaggi

Jayaa Jaggi is serving as a core team member of Youth Advocacy Council and Team Lead at E-Hands. She is the co-founder of Roshan Soch, a non-profit that aims to provide quality education to underprivileged students and has trained more than 500 students to date. She is also a Lead Trainer at Foster and has conducted many corporate trainings. The project she aims to develop through the incubator conducts sessions in educational institutions through their certified trainers, career counselors, including one-on-one discussions.

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