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Nazanin Daneshvar
Nazanin Daneshvar (born in 1983, Tehran) is an Iranian Internet entrepreneur who founded the discount website "Takhfifan". She is unusual as a woman establishing a company in Iran and she has attracted some attention. In 2019, she became one of UNCTAD's "eTrade for Women Advocates" from the developing world. Life Daneshvar was born in Tehran in 1983 and went to grad school in Tehran. After that, she worked in London assisting a startup trying to break into the Iranian market. When Daneshvar started Takhfifan, she was on her own as there were no other female website entrepreneurs she could compete against. She faced a lot of poor judgment from potential business contacts, and she had to take her father along for the first year to show some gravitas, as they would not believe she was in charge. The company is very similar to Groupon but her company operates in Iran. The site offers large discounts to potential buyers and then passes on discounts the suppliers offer. Despite her diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amirkabir University Of Technology
Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) ( fa, دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر), also called the Tehran Polytechnic, is a public technological university located in Tehran, Iran. Founded in 1928, AUT is the second oldest technical university established in Iran. It is referred to as the 'Mother of Engineering Universities'. Acceptance to the university is competitive, entrance to undergraduate and graduate programs requiring scoring among the top 1% of students in the Iranian University Entrance Exam, known as 'Konkour'. The university was founded in 1928 as a technical academy, and was further developed into a full-fledged university by Habib Nafisi in 1956, after that it was extended and enlarged by Dr. Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, during the Pahlavi dynasty. Named the Tehran Polytechnic, it initially offered five engineering degrees, namely; Electrical and Electronics, Mechanical, Textile, Chemistry and Construction and Infrastructure. Six months before the victory of 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations Conference On Trade And Development
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is an intergovernmental organization within the United Nations Secretariat that promotes the interests of developing countries in world trade. It was established in 1964 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and reports to that body and the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). UNCTAD is composed of 195 member states and works with nongovernmental organizations worldwide; its permanent secretariat is in Geneva, Switzerland. The primary objective of UNCTAD is to formulate policies relating to all aspects of development, including trade, aid, transport, finance and technology. It was created in response to concerns among developing countries that existing international institutions like GATT (now replaced by the World Trade Organization), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank were not properly organized to handle the particular problems of developing countries; UNCTAD wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groupon
Groupon is an American global e-commerce marketplace connecting subscribers with local merchants by offering activities, travel, goods and services in 13 countries. Based in Chicago, Groupon was launched there in November 2008, launching soon after in Boston, New York City and Toronto. By October 2010, Groupon was available in 150 cities in North America and 100 cities in Europe, Asia and South America, and had 35 million registered users. By the end of March 2015, Groupon served more than 500 cities worldwide, nearly 48.1 million active customers and featured more than 425,000 active deals globally in 48 countries."Groupon Q1 2015 Public Fact Sheet." Groupon. Retrieved June 1, 2015. http://investor.groupon.com/index.cfm . The idea for Groupon was created by former CEO and Pittsburgh native Andrew Mason. The idea gained the attention of his former employer, Eric Lefkofsky, who provided $1 million in seed money to develop the idea. In April 2010, the company was valued at $1.35 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L To R Claudia De Heredia Helianti Hilman Nina Angelovska Patricia Zoundi Yao And Xiaofei Yao
L, or l, is the twelfth Letter (alphabet), letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''el'' (pronounced ), plural ''els''. History Lamedh may have come from a pictogram of an ox goad or cattle prod. Some have suggested a shepherd's staff. Use in writing systems Phonetic and phonemic transcription In phonetic and phonemic transcription, the International Phonetic Alphabet uses to represent the lateral alveolar approximant. English In English orthography, usually represents the phoneme , which can have several sound values, depending on the speaker's accent, and whether it occurs before or after a vowel. The alveolar lateral approximant (the sound represented in International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA by lowercase ) occurs before a vowel, as in ''lip'' or ''blend'', while the velarized alveolar lateral approxim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarisse Iribagiza
Clarisse Iribagiza (born 28 January 1988) is a computer scientist in Rwanda. She is the CEO and co-founder of the mobile technology company HeHe Limited and she is one of the UNCTAD's seven "eTrade for Women Advocates from the developing world". She was previously the winner of the East African entrepreneur reality TV show '' Inspire Africa'' Season 1. Biography Iribagiza attended the University of Rwanda’s College of Science and Technology and she attended a short Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) incubation program. She founded her company whilst still an under graduate. Her company has grown to have two million customers. The company works with local suppliers and they get access to an on-line store for their goods, inventory maintenance and they receive digital payments from their end customers. HeHe Labs has partnered with GirlHub in an initiative that aims to inspire ambition in Rwandan girls. They teach them about not just ICT, but technology and design in ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Angelovska
Nina Angelovska (born 13 July 1988 in Skopje) is a Macedonian politician and the former Minister of Finance in North Macedonia. She is also an entrepreneur, UNCTAD eTrade for Women Advocate and president of the Macedonian E-commerce Association. She co-founded and was heading the first deal platform and leading e-commerce company in Macedonia, Grouper.mk. She made a successful exit when the Polish Group Asseco SEE acquired her company, Grouper.mk. Early life and career Angelovska was educated in Skopje at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University where she obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in E-business at the Faculty of Economics. Angelovska graduated as student of the year and was awarded Frank Manning for best student in the generation in economic sciences in 2010. Angelovska won a national contest for most innovative business plan and co-founded Grouper.mk in 2011, known as the first Macedonian deal platform and a leading Macedonian e-commerce company. Angelovska obta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiaofei Yao
Xiaofei Yao is the Chinese e-commerce CEO of Rogrand - a company involved in pharmaceuticals e-commerce. Life She is the founder and CEO of Rogrand E-commerce. Rogrand E-commerce is based in Beijing and has eight other offices in China in Shandong, Hubei, Guangdong, Shanxi, Liaoning, Sichuan, Zhejiang and Henan. In 2016 her company launched an initiative at a conference in Lima to tie together partners in the Chinese pharmaceutical market including manufacturers, pharmacies and hospitals to manage chronic diseases using on-line resources. She emphasises the importance of data to ambitious companies. In September 2019 the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development announced seven "eTrade for Women Advocates" from the developing world. The others were Nazanin Daneshvar, Clarisse Iribagiza, Patricia Zoundi Yao, Nina Angelovska, Claudia de Heredia and Helianti Hilman from Indonesia. The awards were announced on the periphery of the United Nations General Assembly The Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Zoundi Yao
Patricia Zoundi Yao (born in 1976 in Aboisso, Côte d'Ivoire) is a well-known social entrepreneur in Côte d'Ivoire. She is the founder of several companies, including Quickcash (fintech) and Canaan Land ( agribusiness). Her determination and leadership was recognized by UNCTAD in September 2019 when she was one of seven "eTrade for Women Advocates". Education She attended the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. Where she took business law. After leaving she helped her uncle found an unsuccessful business "Zenith Finances" based on the use of Western Union's business model. The experiment left her bankrupt. Quickcash She decided that there was a business in lending to women in rural areas. They could not use modern systems (which rely on the internet) as they had no access to this technology. After two years of experimentation and the support of Fintech she developed a system that became Quickcash in 2010. This could achieve financial transactions without access to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia De Heredia
Claudia de Heredia Romo (born 28 August 1982) is a Mexican e-commerce entrepreneur. Life Romo was born in Mexico City. She took a degree in marketing at Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Santa Fe and graduated in 2006. She then worked in Procter & Gamble in México until 2009. In 2012 she, together with Jennifer Marquard and Claudio del Conde, founded Kichink. Its success was based on the relative reliability of the Mexican postal service and the average customer's perceived distrust of on-line payments. In 2015, Google celebrated its ''Demo Day'' and Kichink was one of the 11 applications made by startups founded or co-founded by women. de Heredia represented Kichink as co-founder during the event in Silicon Valley. She had four minutes to make a pitch followed by two questions. Kichink was not the winner but it received the ''Game Changer'' Award for Innovative Entrepreneurship. As director of marketing of Kichink, she was part of the program "Young Leaders of the Americas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helianti Hilman
Helianti Hilman (born ) is a lawyer involved in e-commerce in Indonesia with "Javara". The business's mission is to market indigenous Indonesian food products. In 2019 she became one of UNCTAD's "eTrade for Women Advocate". Life Hilman was born in East Java and she was brought up there on a highland coffee plantation. She studied law at Padjadjaran University and then continued her studies at King's College London taking a master's degree in intellectual property law. In 2014 she was a Forbes Indonesia Global Rising Star and in 2015 she was recognised as the Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2008 she formed Javara. The company is actually called PT Kampung Kearifan Indonesia and it uses modern technology to manage both its supply chain and its sales. The business's mission is to bring indigenous Indonesian food products to the market. In September 2019 the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development announced seven "eTrade for Women Advocates" fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; french: link=no, Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. Currently in its 77th session, its powers, composition, functions, and procedures are set out in Chapter IV of the United Nations Charter. The UNGA is responsible for the UN budget, appointing the non-permanent members to the Security Council, appointing the UN secretary-general, receiving reports from other parts of the UN system, and making recommendations through resolutions. It also establishes numerous subsidiary organs to advance or assist in its broad mandate. The UNGA is the only UN organ wherein all member states have equal representation. The General Assembly meets under its president or the UN secretary-general in annual sessions at the General Assembly Building, within the UN headquarters in New York City. The main part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
