{"id":4417,"date":"2025-03-18T20:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T20:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/?p=4417"},"modified":"2025-03-19T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:01:12","slug":"jonathan-katende","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/2025\/03\/18\/jonathan-katende\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Katende"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jonathan Katende is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lipaworld, a fintech platform empowering African immigrants and diaspora communities with seamless remittance services via a digital voucher marketplace and its Stablecoin peer-to-peer wallet. Born in the DRC and raised in South Africa, Jonathan\u2019s immigrant experience fuels his mission to bridge financial gaps for underserved populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> With a career spanning global companies like Samsung and DIDI, he brings expertise in growth strategy and innovation. A Western Union Foundation Fellow and ADN ABLE participant, Jonathan is dedicated to leveraging technology to foster economic transformation and empower Africa\u2019s diaspora through connectivity and inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Katende is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lipaworld, a fintech platform empowering African immigrants and diaspora communities with seamless remittance services via a digital voucher marketplace and its Stablecoin peer-to-peer wallet. Born in the DRC and raised in South Africa, Jonathan\u2019s immigrant experience fuels his mission to bridge financial gaps for underserved populations. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418,"href":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions\/4418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africandiasporanetwork.org\/programs\/adis25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}