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Uganda’s innovation ecosystem still a work in progress | Albert Mucunguzi
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Personal blog by Albert Mucunguzi. Uganda’s innovation ecosystem still a work in progress. October 25, 2015 at 1:52 am • Posted in Innovation. Bull; 0 Comments. Representatives of project partners from NITA-U, ICTAU, UBPOA pose with H. E. Alphons Hennekens, the Netherlands Ambassador to Uganda at the official commissioning of the NTF III Project in Kampala, Uganda. TODAY I stumbled upon an article. In his latest entry to his blog, he refers to Uganda’s startup scene as “stagnant”, with ...Posted a length...
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Introducing the Fledge6 fledglings | Fledge | The "conscious company" accelerator
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Introducing the Fledge6 fledglings. On March 15, 2015. As in the sixth session. Of Fledge, the conscious company accelerator. Arrived. We invite just seven. To participate. And this seven are incredibly existing. For the first time ever, the invitees include not only no teams from Seattle, but no American teams at all. Seven startups hailing from five different countries:. As always, seven impactful startups, aiming to prove it is possible to do good, while doing good business. To buy your ticket. Compan...
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Fledglings | Fledge | The "conscious company" accelerator
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Community calendar and database. Raising chicks and chickens in Tanzania. Videos and connections for young African inventors. Give your extra stuff to a local nonprofit in need. Plastic waste to concrete aggregate. Clean, efficient cookstoves. Cold storage for Nigerian farmers. Funding the world you want to live in. A small batch co-packer for local, healthy food. Tanzania's largest fruit aggregator. Hoising Kenya out of povery. Moderizing and mobilizing SACCOS. Fish farming, fingerlings, and fish feed.
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Finance category | Pivot East
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Ensibuuko (Uganda) : Leveraging on mobile and web technologies to improve access to finance for small holder rural farmers. ChamaSoft (Kenya): A group management platform which manages administration of chamas, allowing them to concentrate on investment rather than administration. Valuraha (Kenya): It simulates Kenya’s financial ecosystem and enables students to interact with it using virtual money enhancing investor education. PIVOT East 2016 Call for Applications. PIVOT East 2016 Selection Criteria.
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Wandila Simon Kamukwape's Diary: July 2014
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Wandila Simon Kamukwape's Diary. My Diary on Agriculture, Youth, ICT and Community Development, Human rights-democracy and governance, And Of Course my Life. Portfolio - Web and Graphic Designer. Sunday, July 27, 2014. A Social Reporter CTA has created in me; a new career is born. In coordinating its online presence, I developed great passion for media work. My first most formally published article appeared in the ICT Update issue published in June, 2012, following my reporting for the CTA sponsored ...
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Wandila Simon Kamukwape's Diary: Agrihack initiative grooms ICT4Ag young entrepreneurs
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Wandila Simon Kamukwape's Diary. My Diary on Agriculture, Youth, ICT and Community Development, Human rights-democracy and governance, And Of Course my Life. Portfolio - Web and Graphic Designer. Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Agrihack initiative grooms ICT4Ag young entrepreneurs. Young entrepreneurs are already turning the wheels of the agricultural revolution. They are driving the paradigm shift in facilitating access and communication of agricultural information and knowledge. A model hackathon with a differe...
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Access to finance made easy for the rural poor in Uganda | Virgin
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Find a Virgin Company. Access to finance made easy for the rural poor in Uganda. Grew up in a farming community in rural, war-torn Uganda. He was raised by his mother who, similarly to 80% of adults in the country, was a smallholder farmer. They often struggled to make ends meet, producing just enough food for their own table. Ldquo;As a young boy, I watched helplessly as an exploitative middleman took the biggest share of my mother’s hard-earned farm income,” he said. Ldquo;These are member-based inform...
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