Consolidation 2025: Live Your Best Life🚀
You are creating your future and destiny as you go along.
Someone shared these two quotes online. And I kinda like them. They aptly reflect my thinking about 2025:
"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you." — Steve Jobs
"Things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen...The world is a museum of passion projects." — Collision
2025 will be your best year…like, ever! I believe that. And I want to start by bringing you insights to help you make that happen.
By popular demand, I’m pleased to finally share my thoughts on our theme for the year: The Year of Consolidation. Please watch this video to learn how I’m leaning into and consolidating in 2025:
There are four main goals I want to achieve this year:
Have more conversations, mostly ReadyforWork webinar
Expand our work, particularly www.readyforwork.africa
See more of nature and places
Upgrade my spiritual life
Here’s how you can be part of the transformation.
🎖️1. Give/Partner: If you’re led to donate and provide tuition scholarships to underprivileged learners, see how to contribute here.
🔌 2. Be a Knowledge Partner: If you consider yourself a subject-matter expert in tech and want to speak at one of our webinars (or upcoming events), please reach out on WhatsApp to confirm dates. Alternatively, you can email me.
📚3. Buy my book, Breaking the Limits! You can sponsor copies for young professionals and high schoolers too. Get the book here.
Internet Society Foundation Project
2024 Research Grantees: Shaping the Future of the Internet
The Research Grant Program supports global initiatives that enhance our understanding of the Internet and its importance to everyone. We are thrilled to announce the 2024 cohort of grant partners who will conduct innovative studies addressing the Internet’s critical challenges while also contributing to its sustainability and inclusivity.
This year’s 12 selected projects from six countries will employ innovative approaches to addressing Internet-related challenges through the program’s core themes: a Trustworthy Internet, Decolonizing the Internet, Greening the Internet, and the Internet Economy.
According to multiple sources, the Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity is set to launch soon. The fund is said to be proving up to $2.5m grants for companies in Africa.
Official launch announcement will likely be posted soon, but you can find more details about the fund here.
That’s all I have for you this time.
Thanks for reading.
Best,
Tom-Chris