Entrepreneurship
Igniting Future Business Leaders
Avasant Foundation’s iGNITE entrepreneurship training equips youth with the tools to unleash their creativity and become tech-savvy for conceptualizing and launching their own businesses. iGNITE curriculum grew out of Avasant’s work for the World Bank and with the government of Uganda on designing a Center of Excellence for technopreneurship.
In 2017, AF scaled this successful model by engaging partner universities such as ISBAT in Uganda & UTech in Jamaica, ICT employers, industry groups, centers of Innovation, local Hackathons and financing programs who provided mentorship programs and other critical supports. iGNITE is expected to create a snowball effect through a ‘train-the-trainer’ model and online courses that would benefit close to 22,000 youth in a few years.
Rosalea Hamilton
University of Technology, Jamaica, Scotiabank Chair in Entrepreneurship and Development
Avasant“Avasant Foundation meets the needs of our communities, who are asking for help and information to prepare their youth for sustainable livelihoods – now and into the future.”
