The GIST Tech-I Competition is an annual competition which is designed specifically for science and technology entrepreneurs. These enterpreneurs should come from emerging economies worldwide. Before now, interested entrepreneurs and innovators have submitted their ideas and startups on the portal, applications which were reviewed by past finalists from the same ...
The first-ever Cape Town Accelerator saw 32 corporate agreements including pilots and proof-of-concepts, signed during the accelerator. According to Philip Kiracofe, co-founder and CEO of the SBC Cape Town programme, “To sign 32 agreements is above average for any Startupbootcamp programme in the network. However, when compared to other first-time ...
The annual Global Change Award, initiated by the non-profit H&M Foundation, aims to protect our planet and living conditions by accelerating the shift from a linear to a circular fashion industry. The five winners share a €1 million grant, along with a one-year innovation accelerator program providing tailor-made support and ...
Howard Miller and Grace Njoroge dig deeper into the idea of innovation and what it means for the Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity. It is clear that technology is changing the landscape of financial services in rural Africa. From the largest banks to the smallest fintechs, financial service providers ...
Mozilla has launched its global Equal Rating Innovation Challenge, a competition that invites contributions on ways to provide unfettered access to the open Internet for anyone across the globe. As part of its initiative, Mozilla is asking entrepreneurs, designers, researchers and innovators to propose creative and scalable ideas for connecting more ...
The Innovation AfricaSummit 2016; has received confirmations from 17 more countries whgo will be sending dignitaries to attend the event alongside their Kenyan counterparts. The event is being held for the first time in Nairobi, Kenya and is set to take place from 20th to 22nd September 2016 at ...
The newly launched ‘Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund’ for Africa launched on 13th June 2015 is now going to contribute to the World Bank ‘Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET)’ programme. The latter seeks to award 10,000 African PhD scholarships over ten years, to strengthen research ...
South African entrepreneurs will now be able to test, develop, and deploy their innovations with personal guidance from Standard Bank’s innovation and enterprise development partners after the bank unveiled two incubators that aim to educate, create, empower and develop entrepreneurs. The new incubators are Standard Bank-owned brick-and-mortar facilities where entrepreneurs ...
Seif Salim, Elvis Kipkorir and Clifford Ogeto from the University of Eldoret are this year’s representative to the Unilever Global Future Leaders’ League contest to be held in London between March 16th and 20th this year. The trio won the 2014 Kenyan edition of ‘Idea Trophy’, an inter-university innovation competition that targets ...
South Africa’s crowded slums will from now not have to deal with problems arising from fires and floods on account of social entrepreneurs who have unveiled a fire detector that will give warning after sensing heat instead of the conventional smoke. The Duya News IMG:Innovationpop.com reports ...
Chase Bank and iHub today signed a deal expected to enhance Kenya's tech ecosystem from mere app development to provision of local solutions to diverse problems facing the business community. Speaking to TechMoran after the announcement of the deal, Mr Chege Thumbi, Group Director IT and Operations, Chase Bank, said, ...
Panellists and participants following proceedings during the launch of the first round call for proposals for the Logistics Innovation for Trade (LIFT) Fund. Logistics in Africa is a menace, and firms that try to launch logistics businesses face a mamoth of hurdles from poor infrastructure to ...
IMG:Innovationpop.com Innovators in Africa are all smiles after SAP today announced plans to invest over $500 million in a seven-year initiative to promote local African talent and drive sustainable innovation and growth continentwide. SAP Africa has operations across 51 African countries, among them Morocco, Algeria and ...
The South African Breweries (SAB) has said it will invite 67 young South African entrepreneurs based in Johannesburg to pitch their startup idea for a total of 67 seconds during Nelson Mandela Day on Friday, 18 July in Braamfontein. The firm adds that the successful pitches will gain access to ...
Looks like the Kenyan app developers will be having a better experience in making imaging-based apps as Nokia has introduced the latest version of the Nokia Imaging Software Development Kit (SDK). With the Nokia Imaging SDK 1.1, developers will have access to a powerful library of exciting image ...
The launch of the Tshwane East Manufacturing Incubation Center (TEMIC) by a partnership between Poynting Antennas and Lawrence Global Manufacturing will make it possible for users to mass-produce a new type of TV antenna dubbed the DigiAnt. The joint venture is expected to contribute meaningfully to both South Africa and ...
Fortunately this will only apply to the US as there are 22 states that legalize the use of Marijuana for medical use as well as for recreational use in Colorado and Washington DC. So this Smartphone App has been developed by SinglePoint and Motivity and it will enable ...
Momentum Core and Leti Arts, African start-ups, will this year showcase their apps optimized for Intel® Architecture at Mobile World Congress. Momentum Core will showcase Simiyu the Chicken gaming app while Leti Arts will showcase their Leti Centre. The two apps were developed with support from Intel’s Software Services ...
United Bank for Africa (UBA) is set to launch U-Mall, its partnership project with Netplus Advisory in other African nations in which the bank is operating. This was revealed by Wole Faroun, managing director of Netplus Advisory in an exclusive chat. He said the bank is the party that is ...
Francis pitching at Venture Out Challenge 2013 held in Moldavia Francis Onwumere is the business and product developer for Prowork Collaborative Product Management, one of Africa's startups that participated in the 2013 VentureOut Challenge. In this interview, the developer spoke on how startups need to prepare ...
Startup Weekend, a meetup of tech entrepreneurs interested in learning hwo to launch successful ventures is set to happen November 22 at Nairobi's iLab situated at Strathmore University. With over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011, Startup Weekend is a Washington-based orgainzation with activities in ...
The African Innovation Foundation has extended the application deadline for the $250K Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2014 to November 30 in a move to mobilize more African innovators and entrepreneurs to deliver market-oriented solutions for Africa. The announcement was made in Nigeria by IPA Pauline Mujawamariya, IPA Program Director in ...
Over 100,000 Euros is up for grabs for Africa’s top innovators who participated Siemens Stiftung’s "empowering people award”, with the award ceremony slated to take place in Nairobi Kenya come October 30, 2013. Run by the Siemens Stiftung Foundation, the award aims to “to identify simple and appropriate technological solutions ...
Sam Gichuru busy working Nailab (Nairobi Incubation Lab), a startup accelerator that offers a 3 to 12 months entrepreneurship program focusing on growing innovative technology driven ideas has opened up the application process for the physical incubation program. For startups to qualify for the program, they ...
Image Credit: wqa.org mWater, a non-profit organization dedicated to improve safe water and sanitation through mobile technology, has partnered with UN HABITAT in a project that will see residents in Mwanza Tanzania test the quality of the water they are consuming by use of specially designed ...
Today in Western Cape South Africa over 200 pupils are attending the only entrepreneurship conference in the country targeting high school students. The school entrepreneurship conference, in its second year is taking place at place at the South Peninsula High School and is co-funded by the Western Cape Department of ...
The ITU has launched The Young Innovators Competition in a move to foster innovation among the next generation of social entrepreneurs working to change the world through technology. According to the ITU, the competition is open to entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 26 with an original tech idea ...
Startups in Africa have a reason to smile as a new communications and media firm launches to help them get publicity globally. The firm dubbed as Nyota Media, is Africa's first communication and PR agency for innovative African entrepreneurs, start-ups, and international companies that use technology to improve the lives ...
Google this week is meeting over 500 key tech players, advertising agencies, government, developers, publishers and Swahili language specialists to discuss the role of technology in Kenya’s future by driving growth and innovation. According to Joseph Mucheru, Kenya Country Manager and Google SSA ambassador: “We want to share the value ...
