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7 May 2012

Across the continent, startup competitions have been giving forward-thinking entrepreneurs the opportunity to claim seed capital for developing the most innovative and status quo-breaking concepts. This year, ActivSpaces is proud to be involved in Cameroon’s first open challenge for technology-based startups organized by Sanaga Ventures and VC4Africa. Sanaga Ventures, VC4Africa and ActivSpaces invariably have the [...]

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Tags: apply, apps, csc2012, entrepreneurship, grants, impact investments, innovation, investment, openings, sanaga ventures, startups, vc4africa, venture capital

Njorku Job Search Engine Scales Up, Expands Offerings

In: Buea|News|Startups

17 Dec 2011

Buea-based African job search engine Njorku rolled out a major update to its platform this week, with an eye toward improving relevance of search results, performance and scalability. Additionally, they have expanded their offerings to include job search in Uganda and Egypt. The Njorku search engine crawls websites with job and classified listings serving African [...]

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Tags: crawler, egypt, jobs, Njorku, scale, search, uganda

Connecting BarCamps Ethiopia & Cameroon

22 Sep 2011

BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences (or unconferences) typically geared around technology, media, startups, open data, society and so on. They are open, participatory workshop events, the content of which is provided by participants. In keeping with tradition, there is no set speaker list before the day of the event and everyone is [...]

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Tags: BarCamp, ethiopia, iceAddis, media, open data, society, startups, technology, workshop

The Development Marketplace

In: Community|Events|News|Projects|Yaounde

26 Jul 2011

At the Yaoundé Conference Center from July 14th – 15th, the World Bank hosted the finals of the Development Marketplace, a competitive program which had as objective to select and fund innovative projects with high potential for development impact. From 230 project proposals that had been submitted by civil society organizations covering the 10 regions [...]

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Tags: entrepreneurship, grants, ICT4D, ICT4Gov, impact, innovation, social, startups, World Bank

Scratch Club Buea

22 Jul 2011

When Richard Anderson (our most recent visiting fellow) introduced the kids at “Silicon Mountain” to Scratch, we knew we had a calling. For a long time we had focused our activities on a more mature age group, but Scratch reminds us that we need to get ICT4D leaders in the proper mindset from a tender [...]