EntrepreNorth: Taking IT Digital

The EntrepreNorth App Development project focused on creating a multi-user applied business tool that supports entrepreneurs and social innovators with investment and impact readiness, and ongoing business planning and strategy.

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Amongst the goals of the project are developing, testing and launching an app that is accessible to Northern and Indigenous entrepreneurs, that provides business education, mentorship and investment readiness support in remote locations. The project will utlize its own design thinking methodology to create the app that is responsive to the needs of Northern and Indigenous entrepreneurs and social initativors. An additional outcome of the app, aimed to build a community of practice for northern and Indigenous entrepreneurs, as well collecting impact data to prove the impacts of entrepreneurship and social innovation in the North.

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