Silicon Valley Links (SV - Links) and Silicon Valley Nigeria Economic Development (SV – NED) in collaboration with the Nigerian Embassy in Washington D.C. are going to be hosting the first week-long immersion program in Silicon Valley with Nigerian executives. The programme will bring over 30 top Nigerian executives to participate ...
Following successful previous editions, Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), Nigeria’s premier social innovation centre together with Omidyar Network and Union Bank is proud to announce the 3rd Social Change Summit in June 2017. This year’s Social Change Summit themed ‘How might we connect more Africans to more opportunities to move up the ...
Stellar.org, which works with Oradian to bring low-cost money transfer services to users in Nigeria and South Africa's Sun Exchange, a crowd-financing platform that enables micro investing into solar projects in developing nations, from anywhere in the world are among the 24 startups that were selected to join the fourth batch ...
Kenya's Cardplanet Solutions has raised $100k from 500 Startups to up its products, hire engineers and focus on customer acquisition in a move that will turn around the firm's fortunes and growth story forever. Speaking to TechMoran, Rodgers Muhadi, Cardplanet Solutions co-founder and CEO said, "We are improving our product, ...
Evernote has announced Chamasoft as the most worthy winner of the first ever African Innovation Award, which is part of the Evernote Platform Awards launched in May and organized in collaboration with the African Technology Foundation. The annual Evernote Platform Awards, which celebrates the best software apps that connect to ...
Each month Silicon Valley hosts dozens of hackathons, though Facebook hosted one with a twist on Monday. Instead of college-aged programmers that normally dominate the coding marathons, the only participants at the first women Vets in Tech event were female veterans. Approximately 30 female veterans attended the hackathon, with the ...
Northen Uganda has got a new ISP today, dubbed Zoom Wireless, and thanks to Volo, a Silicon Valley start-up built helping ISPs and telecom providers in emerging markets to design and deploy fixed wireless broadband services quickly and profitably. Volo has helped Zoom to design and deploy a carrier-grade fiber-backed last ...
Higher Circle, a platform that supports social entrepreneurs in developing markets, is excited to announce the Coming to America event on August 15-16, 2013 in Silicon Valley. Coming to America welcomes passionate and innovative social entrepreneurs from around the world who head small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with 5-500 employees will be invited to: • ...
