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Botswana

Southern Africa

Covering the southern Africa region for TechCabal, Africa's leading technology publication.RESPONSIBILITIES: *Establishing and maintaining a southern African readership for the publication.*Extensively covering tech in the southern Africa region through breaking news, writing feature articles, and ecosystem engagement through attending, and moderating events and building an extensive network of ecosystem stakeholders including founders, investors, and regulators.MILESTONES:*Exponentially grew TechCabal's readership in South Africa (20,000%), Zambia (17,000%), Zimbabwe (14,000%), and Botswana (67,000%).*Attended, presented and moderated at various tech events including Africa Tech Festival, Africa Fintech Summit, and Africa Tech Week.*Part of the team which wrote TC Daily, one of Africa's leading tech newsletters with over 150,000 subscribers.*Created an extensive network which includes the region's leading investors, founders, cabinet ministers and regulators.

Francistown, Central District, Botswana

Founded BW TechZone, Botswana’s first tech-focused blog.RESPONSIBILITIES:*Helping the blog establish itself as the leading voice on tech in Botswana.*Writing articles for the blog about tech in Botswana.*Sourcing and performing interviews for the blog.MILESTONES:*Positioned the blog as the leading tech platform in Botswana.*Grew the blog to tens of thousands of monthly users.*Managed the blog's multiple contributors.

Francistown, Central District, Botswana

Founded Imagine Digital Marketing Solutions, a one-stop digital marketing agency.RESPONSIBILITIES:*Sourcing clients for the agency.*Overseeing client projects including graphic design, web design, and social media management.*Managing a team of contributors including designers, developers, and content writers.MILESTONES:*Achieved a 100% completion rate on all client projects.*Drove an exponential increase in the agency's revenue and sales.

Botswana

Advocate of the Global Schools Program, is an initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) for supporting the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement.RESPONSIBILITIES:*Raising social media awareness about the Global Schools Program.*Presenting to educators in primary, junior and senior schools about the Global Schools Program.*Registering schools onto the Global School Schools Program.MILESTONES:*Signed 12 schools to the program which translates to over 8,200 students.

Southern Africa

Founding chairperson of the World Bank BELNASA (Botswana,ESwatini,Lesotho,Namibia,South Africa) Youth Forum.RESPONSIBILITIES: *Working with the secretariat to draft a charter which would guide the structure of the forum.*Overseeing the secretariat which was responsible for various task teams and portfolios across the member countries.*Acting as a liaison between the World Bank team and the forum.*Engaging with the forum's partners and stakeholders including NGOs, civil societies, and government departments.MILESTONES:*Grew the forum membership from zero to over 2,500 members across five countries.*Secured over 10 partnerships for the forum.*Oversaw the execution of over 15 events and special projects for the forum.*Received a commendation from the World Bank Country Director for the work in setting up the forum.

Gaborone

Founded Diamond Value Investments whose mandate is to offer value-addition services to different stakeholders in Botswana’s diamond mining industry pipeline.RESPONSIBILITIES*Conceptualising the company's mission and value proposition.*Executing the company's mission and value proposition.*Overseeing company's day-to-day activities.MILESTONES*The company was accepted and completed the Okavango Diamond Company Youth Entrepreneurship Program Class of 2024.*The company was accepted into and completed the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program.*The company raised $5,000 in seed capital. was selected to be a part of the 2019 cohort of the TEF Entrepreneurship Program and raised $5000 in seed funding.

Wrote articles for News24's "City Press" publication.RESPONSIBILITIES*Conceptualizing and writing articles for News24, a South-African digital publication.*Topics covered include technology, venture funding, social media trends and socio-economic issues.MILESTONES*Wrote over 10 articles which were widely read. Topics included technology, governance, the internet.

African Liberty Writing Fellowship is a platform for advancing prosperity in Africa by promoting civil discussion and debate about social, legal, and economic issues affecting Africans. The writing fellowship is meant to train young promising Africans in professional journalistic writing and help them start careers in journalism.RESPONSIBILITIES*Pitching articles to the fellowship managing editors.*Writing articles then pitching them to publications.MILESTONES*Wrote for over 15 articles published in leading South African publications*Did radio interview about some of the articles.*Graduated from the Fellowship as one of the best-performing fellows.

Botswana

Contributed articles for a column in Sunday Standard and The Telegraph newspapers. Topics covered included the impact of technology on Botswana's socio-economic issues.RESPONSIBILITIES*Conceptualising and pitching articles to managing editors.*Writing and distributing articles.MILESTONES*Wrote over 20 articles for the column.*Articles stoked nationwide debates and was invited on several radion shows.

Botswana

Was attached in the mine's IT department where i was responsible for networking tasks and software installation

Certificate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

I was a part of the Okavango Diamond Company Youth Entrepreneurship Program in partnership with USB-ED.The mandate was to help young.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Computer Science Society Of Botswana