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Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2018 -$300,000 Calling Students and Recent Graduates. Cisco is committed to positively impacting 1 billion people by 2025. As part of our work, we seek to inspire and empower a generation of global problem solvers who will not only survive – but drive and thrive – in our increasingly digital economy. With digitization and the Internet of Things (IoT) connecting more devices and data than ever before, good ideas now have the ability to make a difference more quickly than ever before – and we’re here to help. Our second annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge aims to recognize new innovative solutions that leverage technology for social impact from student entrepreneurs around the world. The Challenge is open to students and recent alumni from any college or university. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2018 is a worldwide search for early stage technology-enabled solutions and services that can enable economic development ...

Why every young person should embrace entrepreneurship There is a latin adage that says “Ceteris paribus elses quis vuit alicui servo” translated as “ All other things being equal, nobody wants to be someone elses servant”.  This is a trait th at is in every human, but only a few displays it in commerce. These individuals are the owners of SME and Large businesses. It has been observed from survey that up to 70% of self employed individuals have no intention of returning to the conventional employment. Rather they intend to grow their businesses. Here are few reasons you as a young individual should desire to create your own business: Job safety and future security is what every individual deserve. Professionals born in the 1950s, reaching retirement age have worked for the same employers for more than 30years. In return, they received desirable health benefits, countless perks and a good retirement plan. Those born the 1970s and 1980s get only about one-third of this ...

HOW ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND IS DEVELOPED Hey folks, hope you got the point in my last article. Like I promised I am going to publish an article on “ How entrepreneurial mind is developed”. First, See things differently; To be an entrepreneur you don’t have to see things in the same perspective as every other person. You should be thinking out of then box. In every situation, both bad and good one alike there is always opportunity. You should think towards utilizing these opportunities and this brings the business in it. Solve Problems; You have to be a problem solver. Like I said you have to see opportunity in every situation. When the situation is bad and you provide a solution to check the bad situation, business is done between you and the audience you have provided this solution to in the form of product or service. Be the Doer; If you are not used to making things happen it is not too late to start. Don’t always have that mind that mind that someone will come around t...

How today's education system has failed the young people and what needs to be done: Education system has failed to deliver what need to be delivered to the young minds. Emphasis are laid on less important issues leaving behind the core things that need to be focus on. The current education system was conceived, designed and structured for a different age. It was conceived in the intellectual structure of the enlightenment and the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century. Before the middle of the 19th century there where no system of public education. The  Industrial Revolution  was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. That was the future that the education system they used about 150 - 200 years ago prepared the youths for. Fortunately or unfortunately that era is long gone but the system refused to acknowledge that. Our children are the ones suff...