Entrepreneurship & the Future of Startups in Afghanistan
Dec
2
3:30 PM15:30

Entrepreneurship & the Future of Startups in Afghanistan

How will Afghanistan's private sector continue to move forward beyond the political landscape? How can tech and startups facilitate infrastructure and continued investment to help the growth of entrepreneurship? Join us for this in-person event to discuss these topics and more in a conversation about the future of entrepreneurship and startups in Afghanistan.

Event Speakers:

  • Sara Wahedi is the founder and CEO of Ehtesab - Afghanistan’s first civic-engagement startup, which aims to bridge the communication gap between Afghan citizens and government officials. She has worked as a Specialist focusing on Migration and Social Development at the President's Office and as a Program Assistant at an NGO focusing on community development.

  • Sher Shah Rahim is President of Intellectual Applications & Products (IAP), a reputable technology-driven consulting firm with multi-skilled professionals and vast experience in innovative technology. He is an Afghan entrepreneur who has pioneered small and big ventures in the country and is a jury at the World Summit Awards (UNDP) from Afghanistan helping contribute to achieving the SDGs through technology.

  • Moderated by Ihsan Ayubi from Startupistan.

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Webinar Series - Intro to Online Marketing and the Customer Journey
Nov
4
5:00 PM17:00

Webinar Series - Intro to Online Marketing and the Customer Journey

Curious about online marketing?

Want to understand the customer journey and discover some useful tools?

Then join us for the 3rd session of Startupistan's Free Webinar Series.

This time, our special guest is Felicia Simon (a marketing pro).

Felicia is an online marketing consultant and trainer from Berlin. As a consultant, she develops digital Marketing strategies for companies that focus on growing their brand awareness online. As a trainer, she works for different academies and institutions, teaching employers how to use digital marketing tools.

Join us online for an interactive Zoom session - this event is free!

Don't miss out, registration is essential in order to participate

Only 100 tickets available - register now!

Confirm your attendance through this link:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HvF_dLf_RA-PHRAmhWyB7g

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Webinar Series - Web Development - The Basics
Oct
21
6:00 PM18:00

Webinar Series - Web Development - The Basics

Fundamentals of Web Development. In this video, we dive into the basics of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The session is presented by Senior Software Engineer Ma...

Intro to Web Development

By Maik Joosten

Web Developer at Ada Health

Join us this Wednesday for the next instalment of the Startupistan Webinar Series.
This week we will take a look at the fundamentals of Web Development, and dive into the basics of HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

The session will be presented by Senior Software Engineer Maik Joosten.

Maik has worked as a developer and software engineer across a range of companies in the Netherlands and Germany.

He was a Senior Software Engineer at the famous Ming Labs Agency for 4 years, and currently works at Ada Health.

Maik specialises in Javascript, Vue.js, and React (Native), he has a passion for creative CSS/SASS/SCSS and animations.

Join us online for this interactive session - registration is free!

Don't miss out, registration is essential in order to participate. Confirm your attendance through this link:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pNiq-O58Tt-QoWuq5hsTPg

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Webinar Series - Power your advertising with Facebook Blueprint Academy
Oct
8
2:30 PM14:30

Webinar Series - Power your advertising with Facebook Blueprint Academy

Startupistan is excited to partner with the Facebook Blueprint Academy, to bring to you a series of free Live Webinars led by expert instructors directly from Facebook.
Register now through the event link to participate!


BLUEPRINT SPOTLIGHT ONLINE
Thursday 8th October
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14:00h - 14:45: Power Your Advertising with Data
14:45h - 15:15: 30 Min Break
15:15h - 16:00: Create for a Mobile World
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This online training session will be interactive and allows for Q&As, as well as other real-time participation, for a customized learning experience.
This session will be lead by trainer Alexandra Joy Rodriguez and conducted in English.

SESSION OVERVIEWS

Power Your Advertising With Data:
Maximize the effectiveness of your clients’ advertising efforts with a data-driven marketing approach. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to leverage the actions people take on your clients’ website or app to drive real business outcomes and measure campaign effectiveness. You’ll see how firms have used these tactics to create new audiences, generate new reporting insights, select the best optimization event for their business goals and increase their attributed conversions. You’ll also learn how Facebook handles customer data and our commitment to data privacy.

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Create for a Mobile World:
Create content for a mobile world by using high-quality creative in your mobile marketing campaigns. You will learn to design content that aligns to user behavior and incorporate creative best practices when designing for mobile.

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Hack the Crisis Afghanistan
Jun
9
to Jun 12

Hack the Crisis Afghanistan

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED!

9-12th June 2020
Online Covid-19 Crisis Hackathon

Do you have an idea that aims to help Afghanistan with the Covid-19 crisis?
Think about health, business, community, education & vulnerable populations.

Bring a team together to design and build your innovative idea in our 48-hour hackathon.
With people from all over Afghanistan coming together to hack together prototypes, you have the chance to win some amazing prizes and project support to take your idea to the next level.

Free internet will be provided to ensure you are online & connected to the event.

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Garage48 and Startupistan together with the support of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Development Cooperation, have gotten together to search for ideas that will help Afghanistan during & after the COVID-19 crisis!

Afghanistan has lived through decades of war and is bracing another deadly challenge, threatening the lives of millions. In a country, where community relations are strong, the authorities are struggling with forcing people to self-isolate. Also, not many can afford to stay at home for weeks, people need to keep on working, in order to provide the necessary food items for their families. The fragile healthcare system is even under bigger pressure than it was before the pandemic, struggling with the shortage of masks, hand-sanitizers, and ventilators. Online home-schooling is not really a solution in a country, where mobile data is a luxury to have, not to even mention computers or laptops.

From 9- 12th of June, we will host an online hackathon dedicated specifically to the challenges that Afghanistan is facing in the COVID-19 crisis

It is prime time to design, test, and launch innovative ideas that will either tackle the crisis or position Afghanistan in a softer place in the aftermath of the crisis!

The intent of this hackathon is to develop ideas that:

are prototype-able in 48-hours and which will help deal with COVID-19 and its aftermath

to find solutions to problems, specific to Afghanistan

Do not stop at anything. Think of the crazy approaches. Think of stuff that needs different approaches. Think of the problems that the COVID-19 crisis presents to you daily!

Think for a few days, jot down your best idea, get together a team, and join us for the hackathon.

How does it work

Think of an idea, that you would like to solve at the hackathon, put together a team or apply solo

The minimum number of participants in the team is one. The maximum number of team members is ten. While we let you sign up with your idea as an individual participant, once your idea gets chosen, you have to put together a team before being able to compete at the hackathon.

Rules for the team submission
Each team should ideally consist of:
- idea owner who will take the role of the team lead (coordinating, project management)
developer
designers (UX/UI)
an engineer or a field expert ( if an idea execution requires it, optional)

Registration is absolutely free! Come submit your idea and get a chance to develop it further with top-notch the mentors from Afghanistan, Estonia, Germany, and beyond!

We will look carefully through each application and will choose the top ideas that will enter the competition.
All the teams that enter the competition, will be announced on the 1st of June! You will receive an e-mail with complete instructions on how the hackathon will look like, but get ready for the craziest 48-hour online hack you’ve ever experienced! Please remember, if you applied individually, and your idea got accepted, you have to submit your team by the 8th of June.

All the selected participants of the hackathon will receive a free mobile data package upgrade from us, prior to the hackathon in order for you to freely hack away!

48-hour Online Hackathon (or an actually tiny bit longer this time around 9-12th of June)

If you want to support the event and JOIN IN AS A MENTOR, sign up here: https://garage48.typeform.com/to/X51duI

PRIZES

1st Prize - 100,000 Afn
2nd Prize - 75,000 Afn
3rd Prize - 50,000 Afn

TOP3 teams will also enter the 3 month-long incubation program that helps to develop the hackathon idea into real life and bring it to the market + 170 000 Afn worth of prizes while in the 3-month long incubation

#hackthecrisisafghanistan #startupistan #g48kabul #g48afghanistan

In these tough times for the entire world, let’s get together and solve this crisis as a community!


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Webinar: 'Hackathon Warm-up'
May
31
3:00 PM15:00

Webinar: 'Hackathon Warm-up'

Curious about hackathons?

Keen to gain valuable entrepreneurial insights? Then tune in for the 'Hackathon Warm-up' happening on Facebook Live this Sunday at 7 pm (Kabul time).

Abdullah Halimee, our in-house expert in software development, is welcoming two special guests for this live webinar.

The first is Sher Shah Rahim, Entrepreneur and Technologist
President of Intellectual Applications & Products.

The second is Ahmadullah Alnoor, who is a senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft.

They will discuss our upcoming hackathon #hackthecrisisafghanistan, virtual collaboration, as well as entrepreneurship and startups.

Don't miss this opportunity to get the best hackathon tips and tricks for success! Hack the Crisis Afghanistan June 9-12

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