IGIHE, Ltd. has joined Global Entrepreneurship Week – Rwanda as its Official Media Partner, helping the fledgling movement to double the impacts of its first year, with a 2012 campaign target of 25,000 participants.
Global Entrepreneurship Week will be celebrated from 12-18 November, when dozens of local partners are expected to organize local, national, and global activities which inspire people everywhere to explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.
These activities, from large-scale competitions and events to intimate networking gatherings, will connect participants to potential collaborators, mentors and even investors.
Outreach is currently underway to enlist these local partners in addition to sponsors, advisers, and champion entrepreneurs.
As part of the agreement with GEW-Rwanda, IGIHE will help to develop the campaign’s communication plan and to manage media relations throughout the country. IGIHE Co-Founder and CEO Meilleur Murindabigwi had this to say about the newly-minted partnership:
“IGIHE is pleased to partner with GEW once again as we believe in its goals and objectives of promoting entrepreneurship in Rwanda; GEW is a youths centered initiative and we are proud to be part of the 2012 campaign as the exclusive media partner. GEW 2012 will surely be a success – it’s bigger, better and we urge all Rwandese mostly the youths to come on board.”
For more information on Igihe, visit www.igihe.rw or email info@igihe.rw.
To get involved in Global Entrepreneurship Week – Rwanda, email the national host at gewrwanda@gmail.com.
About Global Entrepreneurship Week – Rwanda
Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is the world’s largest celebration of entrepreneurship – engaging 7.5 million people each November through tens of thousands of activities around the world.
In 2011, Rwanda joined 122 other countries to participate in this incredible movement for the first time, reaching 12,000 people through twenty-six local events.
In 2012, GEW-Rwanda has partnered with IGIHE, LTD. (Official Media Partner) to reach upwards of 25,000 people through fifty different activities around the country.
Hosted nationally by the Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center, the initiative is powered globally by the Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation, sponsored by Dell and the NYSE Euronext Foundation, and enjoys the support of dozens of world leaders, hundreds on national hosts, and a growing network of 24,000 partner organizations.
For more information, visit www.unleashingideas.org, and follow GEW-Rwanda on Facebook or Twitter.
About IGIHE, Ltd
IGIHE LTD was formed in 2009 under an umbrella of university students from the various Rwandan campuses – NUR, KIST and KIE – and started operations with the premier brand, www.igihe.com.
This was a pioneer online news website that has built a reputable media brand that revolutionalized the Rwandan media platform.
IGIHE LTD is at the forefront of promotion of usage of ICT in the Rwandan media landscape; through facilitating our audience to access fast and reliable news through the internet.
We inspire the Rwandan youths to work hard to achieve their dreams by embracing entrepreneurship.
Currently, IGIHE LTD has considerable media brands – www.igihe.com (premier brand, number ranked online website with highest traffic & has up-to-date news in Kinyarwanda, English & French); www.igihe.tv (an online live streaming portal); www.wikirwanda.org (portal with a wide range of Rwandan history); and has a sister print version, Ikinyamakuru IGIHE (newspaper).
In addition to providing a variety of other ICT related services such as internet solutions, website Content development, Website design and maintenance, Online advertisements – to mention but a few.
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