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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN PROMOTING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN JUBA TOWN: A CASE STUDY OF JUBA CITY, CENTRAL EQUATORIA STATE

The role and importance of social media on women entrepreneurship is the purpose of this research to provide a philosophical discussion of various work of women entrepreneurs using social media as their primary tools for their businesses. Nearly it has been two decades of social media which are powerful tools to communicate with friends and family with limitless connectivity globally. Never before we had access around the world as compare to these days with the help of social media and it’s a decade which social media became nearly parts of everyone’s life and if we see the statistics of developed and under-developing countries where more than 70 to 80 percent of their population are using internet and most of these are new adults between 18 to 35 years old and these adults spend most of their times on the internet and social media searching for information, products or chat with friends and family in one of the social media platforms; there are countless benefits of social media in our personal and business lives. Social media with the help of new technology pave the ground for millions of people to find online jobs for themselves or create businesses for others globally. Women entrepreneurship are not exception of these big change thousands of women use these opportunities and it’s nearly a decade where women use social media for the business purposes to sell products and services. Moreover, this study provides details on how women use these social media affectively in their businesses and what are the factors which help these individual business women in the online business on social media. In addition, this study shows useful ways to apply for an online business basically business which their first target is Social Media. This study used both quantitative and qualitative research technique and the data was collected from 30 respondents who use social media as primary tools in in Juba city. The data was analyzed with the help of SPSS version 22 and Excel version for window 10. The outcomes of this dissertation showed that most women use social media in Juba but they still lack the skills and knowledge needed to uses social media exclusively for business purpose as such, effort needed by the government to build on the capacity of women on how to use social media beneficially. The big number of women using social media in Juba have no significant effect on women entrepreneurship. Keywords: social media, Women, Instagram, Women Entrepreneurship, Business, Social Media Use, Customers, Online, Products, Growing Business.

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Author: joice evans lukari
Contributed by: asbat digital library
Institution: university of juba
Level: tertiary
Sublevel: diploma
Type: dissertations