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Funja has always seen information and communication as a solution to challenges facing the Tanzanian agricultural sector. With this focus she founded Agrinfo Company Limited. Agrinfo's initial idea was to serve as a search engine for agricultural information in Tanzania, and it has pivoted over the
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Funja worked with Huawei Technologies International as a Senior Product Manager in Shenzhen, China. She is experienced with wireless telecommunication technologies and pioneered projects in various countries and regions including China, Kenya, Rwanda, Madagascar, Zambia and Tanzania. Funja has been
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Funja has co-founded several startups for technology, innovation and the empowerment of girls. She codes for change, aiming to transform information technology educational opportunities for girls in secondary schools, ages 13–19, through its training and mentorship programs and young women in
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In 2012 Funja returned to Tanzania and engaged in academia by lecturing at the University of Bagamoyo in science courses. She quickly climbed to the level of Dean at the College of Science and Environmental Sciences
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Funja is a Mandela Washington Fellow, a President Obama Young African Leaders Initiative Program (YALI), where she attended a Public Management Course from Syracuse University in New York.
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Funja has also chaired the Buni Divaz community, representing a group of empowered Tanzanian girls under the TANZICT and COSTECH umbrella.
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She was also recognized in the UN Women in the Young Innovators category for her innovations helping women in agriculture in 2014.
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She has been active since 2014 with one app ATIZAVO on Google Play. The name is a short form of Airtel, Tigo, Zantel and vodacom.
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actively involved in Rotaract and served as the Club President when she was a student at the University of Dar es Salaam 2005.
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as Funja is a trained drone pilot. Funja is the current managing Director of Agrinfo company limited.
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in 2005, and a master's of engineering degree in Communication and Information Systems from
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