Pivot East, Developer Competition and Conference 2012

This event will be held on the 5th and 6th of June 2012 in Nairobi and entries will be accepted from companies located in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and South Sudan.

The pitching conference will have a rich audience of investors, development partners, telecoms operators and other industry players from East Africa and across the globe. 

Pivot 25, a first of its kind mobile apps developer competition and conference helped string the success that Pivot East is building on, with over 100 entries from across East Africa in 5 categories which were Payments and commerce; Entertainment, gaming and utilities; Business and the enterprise; Government, education and agriculture; and Health.

The region takes on to the world with leading innovations like M-pesa and hence is well placed to bring out other world changing mobile innovation. The effort is clear with the launch of m:lab East Africa which is a facility for mobile entrepreneurship training, incubation and applications testing in Nairobi. Other tech hubs and incubation centers have also been established recently in East Africa as part of a growing ecosystem to develop and nurture innovation alongside entrepreneurship.

Read more http://www.yipekenya.org/Pivot.html

Ashoka – 20 Challenges for 20 Entrepreneurs

Ashoka, the world’s largest community of social entrepreneurs, with support from its global network of Fellows, business entrepreneurs, policy makers, investors, academics, and journalists works collectively to ensure that social entrepreneurs and their innovations continue to inspire a new generation of local changemakers to create positive social change.

During the past three decades after its launch, Ashoka has responded to a wider range of programs and initiatives to deal with the citizen sector’s growing needs by launching thousands of social entrepreneurs and helping them succeed.

In continuation of its efforts to achieve its objectives, Ashoka has now taken up to explore the challenges facing the world today and as a result it has determined 20 main issues that require an immediate attention of excellent entrepreneurs (social or business).

Find out more by visiting http://www.yipekenya.org/Ashoka – 20 Challenges for 20Entrepreneurs.htm