GEN Namibia member, Renthia Kaimbi at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the Hague, Netherlands
Proudly Namibian ambassador to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Mrs Renthia Kaimbi learnign about how to feed the world through technology and making connections to support her enterprise Aquagreens, a place where she grows vegetables with fish and water in the Namib Desert. More later.
ELIP CONNECT CAMP
ELIP CONNECT CAMP was held between 27 and 31 December 2019 connecting ELIP Startups with best national & international experts
Ondangwa Trade Fair GEN Entrepreneur exhibiting
Paulina Alfeus and 5 other young people form northern Namibia decided to tackle youth unemployment head on after qualifying as boilermakers. Thy gathered ideas and found that up-cycling drums would be ideal for them to earn an income. she recently was invited to Germany by IKEA to speak about why they are up-cycling drums.
GEN Ghana British Council Partner to Support Women Entrepreneurs
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has lined up a number of interventions to support women entrepreneurs.
Ms Kosi Yankey, the Executive Director of NBSSI, said those interventions covered access to finance, access to technical support, access to business development services or capacity development support, or any need they might have for their businesses.
In all businesses of which about 60 per cent are women would be supported.
GEC 2019 to Focus on Ecosystem Development
The 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Congress, which takes place this April 15-18 in Manama, Bahrain, unifies a broad collection of voices from the thousands of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers and other startup champions who attend the event.
Launching mobile based Market Information System for the local farmers. M-Dalag – Hargeisa
On 13rd November 2018, during the GEW, Shaqodoon, SPARK, SAMS ( an agricultural tech startup) and Telesom ( leading telecommunication company in Somaliland) jointly launched M-Dalag, the first mobile based market information system for easily connecting farmers to market while still at their farms. The launch was to provide a platform that gives farmers a customized and localized crop advisory, market prices, remote crop selling facility, while also connecting farmers directly with buyers to ensure they get the best prices for their products.
UK and Palestine forge new connections between startup ecosystems
To mark the end of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2018, Global Entrepreneurship Network representatives from the United Kingdom and Palestine put pen to on a new partnership designed to facilitate collaboration between startup ecosystems in the two countries.
Ecosystem Connect is a new initiative from GEN, which inspires communities to collaborate and share access to networks and markets to accelerate the growth of entrepreneurship communities and hubs around the world.
Launching the first innovation hub in Somaliland “Harhub”
Shaqodoon has launched the first innovation and entreprenuership hub HArgeisa Innovation Hub "harhub.com" In HArgeisa Somaliland, the hub will provide tangible solutions to the pressing youth unemployment and challenges faced by the country in general. Harhub (Hargeisa Hub) is first entrepreneurship and innovation hub in Somaliland. It was officially opened by the vice-president of the Republic of Somaliland, his excellence Mr Abdirahman Abdilahi Saylici.