- Name of Organization:
Prunedge Development Technologies Limited
- Email Address :
info@prunedge.com, rilwan.saliu@prunedge.com
- Tell Us about your Organization
Prunedge is a Technology company building innovative solutions for real-world problems, founded in 2015 in Nigeria. The company’s mission is to innovate and create affordable technology solutions that help to solve the world’s greatest problems, day-to-day human problems as well as increase efficiency of systems and processes within the social, public, and private sector space. The company creates innovative solutions to global problems by creating software and complementing hardware solutions to address various social problems within her areas of focus, carrying out sensitization activities to strengthen public awareness as well as help ensure successful deployment of developed solutions. collaborating with organizations with similar objectives to solve global problems within our areas of focus, providing technology support to non-profit organizations within the company’s area of focus toward ensuring improvement of delivery of service to the public.
- Does your organization have a representation for a marginalized demographic due to factors such as, but not limited to, race, ability, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class situation or other identification? If so, how?
Prunedge is an organization that has a great representation for marginalized demographics as it is a company whose headquarter is based in Lagos, Nigeria in sub-Saharan Africa. The company’s workforce is populated by blacks of which 40% are female ensuring proper inclusion of the female gender whose participation in tech hitherto has been minimal. The company does not tolerate any form of discrimination in any kind and shade, the company is big on people and holds its workforce in high esteem with a work-life balance of which can be found in any fortune 500 company that prioritizes its employees.
- What is the event about, and what do you want to achieve with it?
The event is a hardware exhibition conference to be hosted by the IoT department which is a key unit of the technology division of the company, the program will bring together key players in the hardware space in Nigeria and beyond to talk about how strategic interventions can help to give the sector a leap, bring more people to play in the space, encourage more women participation in hardware and also talk about the gospel of open-source hardware and how collaboration within the industry, education institutions, and government can be a major driver in innovation, helping to reduce the rate of poverty in the continent and also helping the continent to push further in achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The event will also focus on an inclusive discussion to help solve problems such as epileptic electricity supply and towering carbon footprints in Africa through the use of sustainable and open hardware solutions.
- Which of the levels of funding would you like to apply for? (In round 1 only USD $9910 Is available for applications, in further rounds $3000, $6000, or USD$9910 will be available)
$ 9910
- What is the funding for? Describe your budget. List what you are going to spend it on and how
Rent of event space: $1000
Event awareness campaign: $1000
Snacks for attendees: $10 x 100 persons
Accommodation and feeding for facilitators: $1000
Miscellaneous: $1000
Hands-On Lab & Exhibition (Purchase of Hardware component): $5000
- How will you share the outcomes of this event? What documentation will result that will this project benefit the community as a whole? (Videos? Photo? A how-to? Innovative hardware designs?)
The entire event will be recorded and uploaded to a dedicated website which will be created for the event, videos and how-to guides recorded during the event will be made available to the public for sensitization and educational purpose.
A comprehensive post-event report will be generated, and the key ideas and solutions discussed will be used to engage major stakeholders across Africa’s hardware space.
- How would your event address GOSH’S values of diversity and inclusion?
Organizing an event of this magnitude in sub- Saharan Africa is a big deal and will help to get people from all backgrounds into hardware.
Moreover, our plan of incentivizing event attendance for marginalized demographics in hardware space such as; female gender, people with disability, minority tribes among others would encourage uniform hardware sensitization and subsequent participation of all demographics in Africa’s hardware space.
- Are there any conflicts of interest that you wish to declare?
None.