This document provides summaries of two profiles of individuals working in technology and development in Africa. Profile 1 is of a software engineer who has worked in several European countries and is now a freelance web developer in Sierra Leone. Profile 2 is of a Nigerian PhD student researching remote sensing, machine learning and computer vision at a university in Italy. The document then discusses the speaker's initial interest and involvement in an emergency medical services project in Sierra Leone, including challenges faced in obtaining reliable internet access and identifying local companies for infrastructure implementation against the preferences of upper management. It continues by outlining stereotypes and debunking myths about Africa, highlighting innovation, economic growth and improvements in various African countries.
Are you interested in starting a business in Nigeria? Do you want to know the key players, the culture, challenges and opportunities that lie within? Here is a brief 15 mins guide of everything you need to know
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More at: https://toodlepip.co.uk/2018/20-startup-cities/
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Are you interested in starting a business in Nigeria? Do you want to know the key players, the culture, challenges and opportunities that lie within? Here is a brief 15 mins guide of everything you need to know
Startup Cities: Cape Town, South Africa - Me Convention 2018Chinwag
Keith Jones, CoFounder at Sw7 presented Cape Town as part of the Startup Cities programme at the Me Convention 2018 in Stockholm featuring 20 cities, hosted by Sam Michel.
More at: https://toodlepip.co.uk/2018/20-startup-cities/
Bringing the Startup Nation Home: Lessons from Israeli High TechTearsheet
Presentation delivered to the JCCA, November 2, 2015 in Jerusalem, Israel. Zack Miller presented on the Israeli high tech industry and provided case studies and lessons on how to emulate Israeli technology tactics to help grow local Jewish Community Centers.
Ayla Matalon, executive director of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Israel, on It Takes a Village: Startup Nation Israel Evolves.
Presentation delivered at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Johannesburg, South Africa (March 2017).
"Train to Lisbon" by Leena Bora @ Pizza Talks LisbonEqual Experts
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Description:
"With so many organizations operating in a multinational environment today, it is easy to assume that the globalization of corporations, would result in cultural differences disappearing or diminishing.
Yet, on the contrary, as economic borders come down, cultural barriers often go up, thus presenting new challenges and opportunities in business."
This Barcelona Tech Startup Guide gives you an overview of what is happening in the Porto startup ecosystem. If your startup, organization or initiative isn't in our list, please let us know. Send us an email to hello@startuptour.org.
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Take the trip with us to dive into Nigeria's startup scene. As usual, we love to look back in time to see what are the milestones explaining why the country is where it is today. Oddly enough, Nigeria has long been a very isolated country, with few exports else than natural resources.
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When Tech meets Culture: perspectives from AfricaSpeck&Tech
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BIO: Luca Cimonetti worked as software engineer in several European countries: Austria, Netherlands and France. Following my interest for ICT4D, I recently worked as ICT manager in an international development project in Sierra Leone with the aim of building a national emergency medical service. I am currently working as freelance web developer based in Trento.
Betagroup #68 - Africa & Belgium : sharing common challenges?Mohammed Cherif
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Agustin Argelich's presentation at Abat Oliba University in Barcelona about the 5+1 indicators of the methodology of the think tank Intelligent Community Forum to build prosperous societies.
Creative ideas to build prosperous, innovative, and resilient societies.
6 indicators: Technology, talent, innovation, sustainability, social awareness, continuous improvement, equity, leadership.
Watch the video of the event at: https://youtu.be/sye_pPsbm50
slides used during my intervention at the Future Urban Legacy Lab (FULL) event "innovation & startups in African cities"
http://urbanlegacylab.net/events/innovation-and-startups-in-african-cities/
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Speakers include:
>> Adam Salkeld, Tinopolis, UK
>> Michelle Atagana, Memeburn.com, South Africa
>> Mac-Jordan Degadjor, Blogging Ghana, Ghana
>> Beate Wedekind, THE NEW//AFRICA, Germany/Ethiopia
Rock my Ecosystem - Kenya innovation ecosystemAgence Tesla
Innovation has no place in a global world, it’s everywhere
Innovation ecosystems can learn from one another
Local context matters and should be a source for innovators
This is why…
We’re on a world tour of innovation ecosystems!
This report talks about the Iran startup and innovation ecosystem as of 2013. We've already covered Malaysia, Kenya and Belgium in similar ways.
Contact us for more info!
Loh Siew Meng presented a comparative study of ICT planning and development in Singapore and Nigeria to an audience at the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
Ayla Matalon, executive director of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Israel, on It Takes a Village: Startup Nation Israel Evolves.
Presentation delivered at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Johannesburg, South Africa (March 2017).
"Train to Lisbon" by Leena Bora @ Pizza Talks LisbonEqual Experts
Our Equal Experts developer Leena Bora gave the talk "Train to Lisbon" during Pizza Talks Lisbon on the 11th of October 2017
Description:
"With so many organizations operating in a multinational environment today, it is easy to assume that the globalization of corporations, would result in cultural differences disappearing or diminishing.
Yet, on the contrary, as economic borders come down, cultural barriers often go up, thus presenting new challenges and opportunities in business."
This Barcelona Tech Startup Guide gives you an overview of what is happening in the Porto startup ecosystem. If your startup, organization or initiative isn't in our list, please let us know. Send us an email to hello@startuptour.org.
Emerginov, A Telco Web PaaS for African Cloud, Open Cloud Forum at Cloud Expo...OW2
Deployment of mobile services is a real success story in Africa. Cloud Computing is just starting to take off. African Cloud Computing has a big and perhaps unseen potential as it may answer to traditional technical issues (lack of storage, connectivity, infrastructure and unreliable local energy sources). However providing cloud infrastructure will not be enough. African constraints shall be taken into account in order to provide Platforms as a Service adapted to this very specific environment. The talk will introduce Emerginov, an open source PHP PaaS dedicated to co innovation in Africa, part of the OW2 community and developed by Orange Labs. This talk is given by Morgan Richomme, Network architect for multimedia services in Orange Labs.
Nigeria... Yes, it's big, ugly, dangerous, poor, too big, too hot, too rainy. And it's Africa's biggest country and economy, so the potential for startups and entrepreneurs is huge.
During our trip to Lagos to attend the Mobile West Africa 2014 conference, we listened to the speakers, met the key players of the local tech ecosystem, and were amazed, just like all the other emerging markets we explore, by the creativity, the will, and the startups we saw.
Take the trip with us to dive into Nigeria's startup scene. As usual, we love to look back in time to see what are the milestones explaining why the country is where it is today. Oddly enough, Nigeria has long been a very isolated country, with few exports else than natural resources.
Since Nollywood and the most creative movie industry of the continent, it's changing.
Despite the kilometric list of challenges the country is facing, a lot of spots and startups are to be discussed. Wecyclers, BudgIT are among the secret gems we discovered in Lagos, and for sure, there's more than that.
When Tech meets Culture: perspectives from AfricaSpeck&Tech
ABSTRACT: This talk introduces some of the problematics about International Development Aid going through the highlights of my work experience as ICT manager in an international development project in Sierra Leone. Moreover, it will give different perspectives about Africa compared to the one usually portrayed by media, highlighting some success stories of African innovations and discussing the role of technology in tackling some of the future African continent’s challenges.
BIO: Luca Cimonetti worked as software engineer in several European countries: Austria, Netherlands and France. Following my interest for ICT4D, I recently worked as ICT manager in an international development project in Sierra Leone with the aim of building a national emergency medical service. I am currently working as freelance web developer based in Trento.
Betagroup #68 - Africa & Belgium : sharing common challenges?Mohammed Cherif
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Agustin Argelich's presentation at Abat Oliba University in Barcelona about the 5+1 indicators of the methodology of the think tank Intelligent Community Forum to build prosperous societies.
Creative ideas to build prosperous, innovative, and resilient societies.
6 indicators: Technology, talent, innovation, sustainability, social awareness, continuous improvement, equity, leadership.
Watch the video of the event at: https://youtu.be/sye_pPsbm50
slides used during my intervention at the Future Urban Legacy Lab (FULL) event "innovation & startups in African cities"
http://urbanlegacylab.net/events/innovation-and-startups-in-african-cities/
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Africa seems to be alive with new possibilities. There is an unprecedented attention on Africa – after decades of reporting only about famine, disease and war, international media have begun reporting about success stories, business opportunities and the "new" Africa. How can African journalists be best equipped to play a leading role in conveying diverse, current and interesting stories through local and international media?
Speakers include:
>> Adam Salkeld, Tinopolis, UK
>> Michelle Atagana, Memeburn.com, South Africa
>> Mac-Jordan Degadjor, Blogging Ghana, Ghana
>> Beate Wedekind, THE NEW//AFRICA, Germany/Ethiopia
Rock my Ecosystem - Kenya innovation ecosystemAgence Tesla
Innovation has no place in a global world, it’s everywhere
Innovation ecosystems can learn from one another
Local context matters and should be a source for innovators
This is why…
We’re on a world tour of innovation ecosystems!
This report talks about the Iran startup and innovation ecosystem as of 2013. We've already covered Malaysia, Kenya and Belgium in similar ways.
Contact us for more info!
Loh Siew Meng presented a comparative study of ICT planning and development in Singapore and Nigeria to an audience at the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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Learn about:
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• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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"When tech meets cuture: Perspectives from Africa"
1. “When Tech meets
Culture: Perspectives
from Africa”
Luca Cimonetti, Oladimeji Mudele
GDG Trento DevFest, November 9, 2019
2. PROFILE #1
PAST: software engineer in several European countries,
Austria, Netherlands and France.
RECENT: project manager in an international
development project in Sierra Leone.
CURRENT: freelance web developer.
HOBBIES: swimming, traveling, baking and eating pizza,
not necessarily in this order...
3. PROFILE #2
CURRENTLY: PhD scholar, Università di Pavia, Italy
ACTIVITIES: Remote sensing, Machine learning,
Computer vision
PREVIOUSLY: Co-founder goto.ng, Senior Digital Analyst
at Workforce Group Nigeria.
NATIONALITY: Nigerian
HOBBIES: Traveling, Reading, Soccer...
4. HOW IT STARTED
Interest in ICT related development projects.
Attended ISF festival in 2017.
Became a volunteer.
Applied to a vacancy for a project in
Sierra Leone in early 2018.
5. BACKGROUND
CAPITAL: Freetown, ~1 million
POPULATION: ~6 million, 13 districts,
70,000 sq km
GDP BY SECTOR: Agriculture ~60%,
Services ~30%, Industry ~10%
MAIN EXPORT: mining ~50% of the total
export
GDP PER-CAPITA: ~1600$/year
6. EBOLA OUTBREAK
START: May 2014
CONFIRMED CASES: 14,061
DEATHS: 3,955
EBOLA FREE: November 2015
2015 GDP: ~-20%
7. ABOUT THE PROJECT
GOAL: building an emergency medical service
at national level
DONOR: World Bank about $12 million over a
period of 2 years (February 2018 - February
2020)
EMPLOYEES: ~1000 locals and ~10 expats
8. ABOUT THE ROLE
Defining high level requirements for
the IT infrastructure and CRM
Writing use cases for a fleet
management platform
Evaluating project proposals
Supervising the IT infrastructure
technical implementation
9. CHALLENGE 1
TASK: getting a stable and fast Internet connection for the NEMS headquarter
PROBLEM: Market price for an Internet Connection (Eolo equivalent)
~250$/month for 1 Mbps
POSSIBLE SOLUTION: asking how public offices are connected to the Internet in
the country
UPPER MANAGEMENT: “We will never get a stable and fast connection at a
reasonable price knowing how things work here”
10. OUTCOME OF CHALLENGE 1
MORAL OF THE STORY: it’s fine if you don’t listen to your boss
11. CHALLENGE 2
TASK: gathering IT infrastructure requirements and IT infrastructure
implementation
PROBLEM: finding a reliable company able to implement the IT infrastructure
according to the technical requirements
POSSIBLE SOLUTION: do research about trusted companies based in Freetown
implementing national projects
UPPER MANAGEMENT: “We do not trust the competence and skills of the local
companies, let’s hire a company from Italy!”
12. OUTCOME OF CHALLENGE 2
MORAL OF THE STORY: again, it’s fine if you don’t listen to your boss!
13. AID PROJECTS PROBLEMATICS
Western mindset approach
High cost of living on western standards
Lack of frameworks to evaluate quality
Focus on short term vs. long term
& sustainability
16. DEBUNKING STEREOTYPES
“Africa is always portrayed as an
hopeless place only full of despair
and poverty”
“If you have been told something for
your entire life you might end up
believing it without verifying it, the
danger of a single story...”
17. IS THIS THE REAL AFRICA?
“To answer this question I had to
put my ignorance aside and visit as
many African countries as I could in
person...”
18. ETHIOPIA
About 30% of people living below the
poverty line, we all know this right...?
BUT
New government since April 2018,
democracy is thriving
Equality is increasing, 50% of
government ministers are women, the
president is a woman
Political prisoners have been
released, state of war with Eritrea
was ended
Economic growth, 9% gdp increase
(2018)
19. RWANDA
In 1994 about 1 million people were
killed in approximately 90 days during
the civil war...
BUT
Equality, women hold about 60% of
the seats in parliament
Free education, close to 100%
country wide enrollment to primary
schools
IT Hub for tech industries
Economic growth, 2008-2012 8%
average GDP increase
20. KENYA
Nairobi the capital of Kenya
sometimes is called Nairobbery and
corruption is still a major issue…
BUT
Primary IT hub for East Africa,
Google and Microsoft have offices in
Nairobi
Economic growth, 6% GDP increase
(2018).
Innovation, Fintech
22. A CHANGE OF PERSPECTIVE
Reducing poverty vs. Creating
wealth. How does it sound, more
positive right?
This is real tangible change that we
all should notice, spread and
support!
24. INNOVATION
“Africa is affected by really severe
energy issues. Innovation is
happening in its purest form because
it comes out of necessity”
“Innovation means putting together
existing technologies, adapted to the
context in order to respond to some
specific need”
25. AFRICAN INNOVATION
MPESA: mobile money transfer
system and a micro-financing service
allows users to deposit, withdraw,
transfer money and pay for goods
and services
PAY AS YOU GO: in 1996 Vodacom
(South Africa) was the first mobile
operator introducing prepaid in its
network
27. A BIT OF FACT CHECKING
Lagos is not the capital of
Nigeria...it’s Abuja
Lagos has not 5 millions of
inhabitants...about 20 millions
Nigeria is not in the center of
Africa...it’s in West Africa
There are no beaches in Vegas...it’s in
the middle of the desert
29. ORIGINAL QUESTION
What does come to your mind if I say
Africa now?
“What I saw was very different from
what I imagined from the single
story”
“Africa has still a long way to go and
big challenges ahead but it is
improving so I hope that the next
time you think of Africa you don’t only
see the past, but you see the future!”
33. YOUNG POPULATION, LOW INFRASTRUCTURE
● Increasing youth population
● 41% of the people in the
continent are below 15
years old
● 53% is between 15 and 60
34. LAGOS, NIGERIA
● 5th largest economy in Africa
● Lagos - 21 million
● Coastal city
38. More Tech startups in Lagos, Nigeria
Processed $27.5 million in August 2018
Building the largest e-commerce and logistics network
on the continent
Giving instant access to over 5,000 Nollywood films.
Valued at $72.9 million
(source: nairametrics.com)
39. Competitive capital approach to development
Investment in tech companies in Africa
Source: https://www.africanbusinesscentral.com/2019/01/14/startup-funding-in-africa-broke-records-in-2018-infographics/