Accra, Ghana, October 29, 2018//-Lack of access to information has been the bane of most African entrepreneurs especially the budding ones, for many years.
But their woes will soon be history following the launch of the world’s largest digital platform dubbed TEFConnect meant for African entrepreneurs and the African entrepreneurship ecosystem.
The TEFConnect takes its first three letters from Tony Elumelu Foundation was recently launched in Lagos, Nigeria at the sideline of year’s TEF Entrepreneurship Forum.
TEFConnect which is an open source platform provides bespoke tools and content to catalyse business development for millions across the continent, through technology and directly applicable content.
Described as the “Facebook for African Entrepreneurs”, the TEFConnect platform is a contemporary, intuitive, informative and user-friendly go-to entrepreneurship space that provides five specific benefits to its users, among others.
Benefits
The one-stop digital home for entrepreneurship ecosystem players, including entrepreneurs, incubators, investors, academia and the private sector also provides news, informative resources, entrepreneurship events and opportunities for young entrepreneurs.
It creates the space to allow African entrepreneurs to transact across countries and regions in Africa’s largest digital marketplace, with traffic reaching millions of consumers, according to senior officials of TEF.
Through the TEFConnect, entrepreneurs have access to free business tools such as financial planning calculators, business plan generators and marketing templates.
Furthermore, the platform enables easy access to the Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Programme Application Form, Enterprise Toolkit and business mentoring by global business leaders.
Entrepreneurs can also leverage on the platform to promote their businesses to potential investors and other entrepreneurs for cross-border collaboration.
Broadening the scope
The Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony Elumelu said: “This year, we are broadening our scope, taking the conversation to where interaction is increasingly occurring – the digital realm.
By connecting African entrepreneurs globally on TEFConnect, we are further unleashing the true potential of our entrepreneurs and transforming the continent.”
“With TEFConnect, we have created a tool that provides a digital platform to host ideas, champion success and demonstrate Africans ability to use the most advanced technologies to take charge of their economic destinies”, Mr Elumelu said while launching the platform.
Available on web and mobile, the digital platform allows African entrepreneurs to transact business businesses across countries and regions in Africa’s largest digital marketplace, access free business tools, global exposure, among others.
It is real the gamechanger for us
Some young African entrepreneurs who spoke to African Eye Report immediately after the launch of the TEFConnect described it as the gamechanger for African entrepreneurs.
“This is really an innovative digital platform that will enhance our business interactions with our fellow Africans and the rest of the world”, Elijah Addo, one of the 2018 TEF beneficiaries from Ghana, stated.
Africa is riding a wave of rapid technological driven change in payment systems, education, agriculture, telecoms, banking, and infrastructure and TEFConnect fulfils a critical role in linking entrepreneurs across the continent and the world at large.
The one-stop digital platform can be accessed via www. Tefconnect.com. It is safe, fast and easy to use.
By Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, African Eye Report
