{"id":10300,"date":"2022-06-22T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techrafiki.com\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T09:58:34","slug":"shamim-nabuuma-swears-in-as-african-representative-on-commonwealth-youth-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techrafiki.com\/shamim-nabuuma-swears-in-as-african-representative-on-commonwealth-youth-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamim Nabuuma swears in as African Representative on Commonwealth Youth Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Ugandan techpreneur, Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa, has sworn in as the African Representative on the Commonwealth Youth Council (CYC) Executive Committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms. Nabuuma, who is the founder and CEO of the CHIL Artificial Intelligence Lab Group and a co-founder of Solerchil Technologies, took oath as part of the new executive to serve until 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was during the Commonwealth Youth Forum, held ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM), under the theme \u2018Taking Charge of Our Future\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI grew up in Africa, schooled in Africa and started my business in Africa before I scaled to the rest of the world. I therefore know each problem every enterprenuer faces in their journey and it why I accepted the Commonwealth appointment<\/em>,\u201d says Ms. Nabuuma on her new role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She adds that, \u201cI am here to look out for ways to help tech enterprenuers get training, to scale their innovations, get linked to the investors willing to invest in the African tech ecosystem, and every young enterprenuer is my priority because I am one of them.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What the African Representative on the Commonwealth Youth Council does<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n