Building A Thriving Innovation Economy
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WORD -Anna Ekeledo, Executive Director
I am excited to present to you our 2021-2031 strategic document, “Building A Thriving Innovation Economy - Setting Africa up for Success.” This document presents our stories, our learnings and successes and our aspirations. It shares the goals we have set for ourselves to ensure that Africa realises her potential to be a global leader of innovation. The past year, leading up to our 10th Anniversary, has been an exciting journey for the AfriLabs team. We have had honest conversations that have helped us take stock of our last decade of operation. It has been an exciting ride! We have experienced tremendous growth as a team and as a community, and we have been impacted positively by great partnerships along the way. We have also seen the immense resilience of our community, as we
battled with the negative effects of a global pandemic, overcoming and shining through with increased innovativeness, community support for each other and a collaboration towards a common cause.
We have used the last few months to zoom out so to speak, and really figure out what role we play in this vibrant African innovation ecosystem. We have come out with more clarity of purpose, which makes our work even more exciting. Our mission, and our vision redefined two years ago continue to guide our work, and this year the team has collaboratively developed the values that will enable us to have the kind of impact we want AfriLabs to drive. The strategic themes attest to our commitment to achieve excellence through our core functions of creation, dissemination,exchange of knowledge, and distribution of resources to innovators and entrepreneurs as well as our duty to engage the AfriLabs community and stakeholders.
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