Dec 29, 2022
Tingo (OTC: TMNA), a leading agrifintech business in Africa, and Dozy Mmobuosi, renowned technology entrepreneur and philanthropist, have together unveiled the Dozy Mmobuosi Leadership Centre (DMLC), located in Oxford, United Kingdom. The centre is designed to offer a monthlong, in-person transformational leadership program for entrepreneurs and those involved in both private and public service. The centre is scheduled to welcome its first cohort of approximately 35 African leaders in February 2023. The centre can also be used as a meeting point for world leaders and researchers for high-level events. According to the announcement, Rt. Hon. Mark Simmonds will serve as the chair of the centre. Simmonds has previously served as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. “The Dozy Mmobuosi Leadership Centre is a transformational and innovative mission to provide African entrepreneurs and sectoral leaders with access to high level motivation and mentoring of next generation leaders,” said the Dozy Mmobuosi Leadership Centre chair Mark Simmonds in the press release. “The centre will provide the foundation to drive impact and nurture future leaders in global society. . . . The program based near Oxford will enable these outstanding Africans to develop and enhance skills in leadership, governance, motivation, finance, technology and innovation. Providing access to some of the world’s most inspirational leaders, ensuring enhanced human capital of young Africans to help their businesses grow and to accelerate Africa’s economic and social development.’’
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About Tingo Inc.
Tingo, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Tingo Mobile, is the leading agri-fintech company operating in Africa, with a marketplace platform that empowers social upliftment through mobile, technology and financial access for rural farming communities. Tingo Mobile’s novel “device as a service” model allows it to add market-leading applications to enable customers to trade, buy top ups, pay bills, and access insurance and lending services. With 9.3 million existing customers, Tingo Mobile is seeking to expand its operations across select markets in Africa. Tingo Mobile’s strategic plan is to become the eminent Pan-African agri-fintech business delivering social upliftment and financial inclusion to millions of SME farmers and women-led businesses. Tingo Mobile offers its comprehensive platform service through use of smartphones — “device as a service” using GSM technology — to empower a marketplace to enable subscribers/farmers within and outside of the agricultural sector to manage their commercial activities of growing and selling their production to market participants both domestically and internationally. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.TingoGroup.com.
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