What Does USAID Business Forecast Say About Locally Led Development?
Yesterday, USAID published its 1st Quarter Business Forecast. It covered many procurement themes for the world’s largest bilateral donor organization. Today,...
How Will President Trump Impact USAID Business Forecast Procurement?
Donald Trump will be the US President again in January, 2025. His last turn as President was decisive and detrimental to international development. He’s promised...
Apply Now: $75,000 for African Digital Innovation Startup Companies
Small and medium-sized businesses are key to digital innovation in African countries. They are creating tomorrow’s solutions today: accelerating digitally...
Surprise! Technology is NOT Key Need for Refugee Entrepreneurship
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in 2018 more than 70 million people around the world were forced to flee their homes because...
Where Are the B2B Plays in African ICT Start-Ups?
Recently, Ory Okolloh tweeted an observation I often comment on when I am talking with techies all excited about start-ups in Africa:
There is a real need to focus...
Your Call to Action: Be an African ICT Entrepreneur!
Being your own boss is the best job you can get because what you do and how you do it in your business is all up to you. Interested in starting your own Information...
Today! Improving Business Opportunities in East & West Africa: #ICT4D Twitter Chat
Building on last month’s amazing Skype Chat on Nigerian Internet Business Opportunities we’re now going to look beyond any one country, and investigate...
No Limits: Nigerian Internet Business is Only Beginning
On the 26th of March, I was privileged to be part of an open discussion on Nigerian Internet Business Opportunities hosted on Skype Public Chat by ICTWorks.org.
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Why Open Collaboration Spaces like *iHub_ Matter
Last week I attended the much anticipated iHub Nairobi launch, as well as participated in a pre-launch gathering of African tech hub pioneers (more on the latter...
#ICT4D Skype Chat: Nigerian Internet Business Opportunities
Nigeria is the Giant of Africa, with 1/8 of its population and all the possibilities and problems that come with such size and diversity. It also should be the...