#MEET Rural Android Women

#MEET Rural Android Women

This is a short interview we conducted with Emilia Epeti Miki, the founder of “Rural Android Women". If you like the concept of this idea and would like to vote for it, click HERE.

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• What is your background?

Emilia Epeti Miki is a 27 years old Cameroonian with a MA in International Relations option International Communication and Public Action and the mind behind the Rural Android Women (#RuDroidWomen) project.

• Describe your idea or project in two sentences.

Rural women have no knowledge of how to use computers or android phones which have a vital place in individual and community advancement in our global and android generation. The RuDroid Women project is aimed at teaching these women the basics of computer science and putiing in place Community Cyber Cafes to provide access to affordable and accessible internet.

• What are the benefits you take from the Entrepreneurship Campus?

Exposure of my idea, connection to potential partners and appreciation of my idea.

• What motivates you to be an entrepreneur?

My passion to see a change in the communities I work in and my desire to see the community members make full use of their potentials which are still not yet discovered and to help them get out of poverty.

• Imagine you have ‚supreme power’ to create and innovate: how would your world look like? What changes would you like to make in your community and/or in the world? Share your thoughts from a ‚supreme power’ and entrepreneur standpoint.

Take off time in my busy schedule and visit around the poor communities and live their lives so as to better understand and identify their basic needs and make them available to them.

• What would you say to potential voters who may be reading your interview?

Voting my idea my dear colleagues will not only help me win the competition but it will help get the rural women and girls who are still left out in this android world to get connected and be part of the change we are walking.

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