Scholarship Fund: Skilling our future leaders and innovators
11:25 - 12:00
Presentation: Funding the Smart Africa Scholarship Scheme and Stories from Beneficiaries
Investment
Where
Gwayi Room / Interpretation Available
26 April
Day 1
WEDNESDAY
15:00
Spotlight Session by CMU-Africa
15:00 - 16:00
Professor Allen Robinson, CMU-Africa’ Director will be joined by a CMU-Africa alumna Victoria Munguti, who was also a beneficiary of a Smart Africa scholarship.
This session's spotlight will be an opportunity to learn more about how CMU-Africa is working to advance Africa’s intellectual and digital development as well as hear from a young innovator on how they are working to increase diaspora inflows into the East African market.
CMU-Africa was established in 2011 through a partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the Government of Rwanda. This ambitious and innovative partnership was designed to respond to the critical shortage of high-quality engineering talent required to harness Rwanda and Africa’s tremendous potential as home to the fastest growing workforce in the world. Its graduates are the next generation of technology leaders across Africa, solving African and global challenges through contextually relevant research and developing tech entrepreneurs focused on local and African challenges. CMU-Africa is the only U.S. research university offering its master’s degrees with a full-time faculty, staff, and operations in Africa.
