Towards the making of aHub

Goal: to contribute to addressing the problem of unemployment and youth joblessness by nurturing

Objectives

  1. Provide space for youth aspiring entrepreneurs and technology developers to work unhindered by either power, connectivity or facility challenges
  2. Provide continuing support for mentoring services to the youth through access to highly accomplished professionals and business people
  3. Provide a link between youth solution providers and the market such that such market demands should be a vehicle to drive local productivity, innovation and creativity rather than sourcing such needs from outside
  4. Create a space for technology experimentation, innovation and creativity by youth people
  5. Support the growth of small scale enterprises through technology and business incubation which would be a vehicle for economic recovery of the region

Components

The tHub is a suite of youth development platform and services consisting of the following:

  1. Entrepreneurs work space: Here youth who are unemployed but have ideas on some technological innovation or creativity that they are working on can be have access to work space, connectivity, IT facilities and power for them to work and create technology solutions.
  2. Technology Incubation: Incubatorship is similarly to the works space however in this, participants have already conceptualized their business plan and set up their enterprises. The goal here is to enable innovators and creators to drive their products to the make through a series of business facilitation process. The incubatorship will provide a wide range of business development services that encompasses a large spectrum of activities all aimed at developing new business organizations. These include:
    1. Information provision:
    2. Sensitization:
    3. Business incubator programmes:
    4. Business mentoring:
    5. Business linkages:
  1. Business establishment facilitation services
  1. Skill Development
    1. Mobile apps development
    2. Website design and deployment
    3. Software design and development
    4. Film and video editing
    5. Computer repairs and maintenance
    6. Outsourcing
    7. Content Development
    8. Games and animation
  2. Job Placement Services (JOPLAS):
  3. eMentoring

Operations

The aHub will be housed in CITAD and provide the followings:

  1. Working space for the participants
  2. Internet connectivity
  3. Power supply
  4. Training opportunities for registered participants
  5. Pool of mentors
  6. Administrative support
  7. A limited a number of use and leave computers
  8. Trainers

Benefits to the Wider Society

  1. A place that constantly thinks of solution to societal problems
  2. Reduction in unemployment
  3. availability of need goods and services as well as skills that the society needs
  4. Prospects for technological breakthrough