CUIB students partake in entrepreneurial workshop

CUIB students have been encouraged to work hard, be committed and depend on God, as success lies within a person’s core values. Rebecca Enonchong made the statement during her presentation on “Enhancing entrepreneurship in Africa through ICT,” to the CUIB community recently at the EoC village.

Rebecca Enonchong, founder and CEO of AppsTech, a global provider of enterprise application solutions based in the USA, told the resourceful students of CUIB that commitment, discipline and thinking outside the box are the gateway to achieving their goals.

While recounting some of the difficulties she faced in setting up her company AppsTech, she told the students that there was no comfort in being an entrepreneur, as seen by people the world over. However she made them know that, they can build and do whatever they want in life once they are determined and focused.

Further in her presentation, she made reference to the different web systems, laying emphasis on Web 3.0 which is a sharing economy that allows for a set of people to deliver services to another set.

She cited examples of web 3.0 set up by Cameroonians such as Ovamba and VC4Africa which link money lenders and borrowers and also links investors and start-ups respectively and have both raised huge sums of money.

She reiterated on the fact that investment is not a charity and thus called on the students to be hard working.

She left CUIB encouraging the students to come up with ICT business ideas that encompass the international market and not limit their businesses to Cameroon and Africa alone.

It is worth noting that in 2001 she received the Enterprise Africa’s 2001 African Entrepreneurship Award and was named the Global Leader for Tomorrow (GLT) by the World Economic Forum of Davos, Switzerland back in 2002.

Ms. Enonchong and the AppsTech management team were honored by the Benjamin Franklin award for small business, by the US State of Pennsylvania.