We are happy to announce that we are going to represent our agenda on connectivity, virtual/digital global production networks, and digital production/innovation at this year’s Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG) in Oxford. The planned sessions will serve to further… Continue Reading
This is a short notice announcement that we got Alloysius Attah, an energetic social tech entrepreneur from Kumasi, Ghana, to speak and discuss with the audience, at 4:30-6pm, this Thursday, 29 Jan 2015, in the Seminar Room of the Oxford… Continue Reading
During the interviews I conducted in Zimbabwe last October, many participants asked me: “Why pick Harare as a case study? Why not Nairobi or Lagos?” Indeed, Harare’s “ecosystem” is nascent, and the few tech startups that exist are hampered by… Continue Reading
Click here to view this post as it originally appeared on VC4Africa. We all know that early monetization and revenue generation are crucial for digital startups in Africa. Entrepreneurs in pretty much any African city find it impossible to… Continue Reading
Tech entrepreneurship is definitely on the rise in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, actually, this rise is not evenly distributed across Africa’s vast geography. Leaving aside South Africa, we can observe that the emergence of content and application startup activity has so… Continue Reading
“Ecosystem” has become one of the most common terms in tech innovation. It rolls easily off the tongue, probably because it has a communal connotation, and evokes ideas such as “collaboration” and “multi-stakeholder.” Where “innovation system” sounds like a technocratic… Continue Reading
If you go to Rwanda and you’re interested in ICT and tech, chances are, you will soon pass through kLab, Kigali’s tech innovation hub. And so it was for me two months ago, when I started data collection for my… Continue Reading
This is the final of a three-part series that summarizes recent outreach meetings in Rwanda for our ESRC/DFID-funded project on changing Internet connectivity in East Africa (part 1; part 2). In this article, Nicolas Friederici discusses the outcomes of the… Continue Reading
Also refer to related posts in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and innovationmanagement.se where colleagues and I expanded on some elements outlined in this post. Innovation and entrepreneurship “hubs” and “labs” are all the rage these days. A wide range of actors is convinced that… Continue Reading
Even if you are just a casual follower of technology in developing countries, you will probably by now have come across blog posts and news articles touting Africa’s tech entrepreneurship boom.[1] Indeed, the first fast-growing mobile app startups have come… Continue Reading