[kictanet] Inaugural DEMO Africa 2012 sets a precedent in bringing startup and innovation ecosystem actors together

Gideon gideonrop at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 12:27:02 EAT 2012 

This is a good start , such innovations getting good attention will trigger
more creativity.

Gideon Rop
DotConnectAfrica

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <kictanet-request at lists.kictanet.or.ke>wrote:

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>    1. Inaugural DEMO Africa 2012 sets a precedent in bringing
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>    2. Baku IGF interest in remote participation? (Ory Okolloh)
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> 2012 DEMO Africa winners: mPawa, Flowgear, Qabila, Sasa Africa, Maliyo
> Games inaugural DEMO Lions Dennis Mbuvi
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> The first ever DEMO Africa Lions with DEMO Africa organisers. The five
> startups are headed to Silicon Valley.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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> Five startups drawn from across Africa have made it to the inaugural group
> of DEMO Africa Lions. This comes after two days of more than 42 pitches at
> the event held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). DEMO
> is an annual event now held in five continents where startups apply to
> launch new products and solutions. The five startups will be heading to
> Silicon Valley where they will receive mentorship and exposure to potential
> investors.
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> mPawa is based in Accra, Ghana and co-founded by Maxwell Kofi Efrem Donkor,
> Anthony Agyekum-Mensah, Nancy Neizer and Shadrack Boadu. The startup seeks
> to solve Africa?s jobless problem by focussing on the informal sector,
> which is the biggest employer in Africa. mPawa lists informal jobs such as
> carpenter?s on a portal where those who need such skills can find people to
> carry out their tasks. Maxwell says mPawa has already matched 2,000 job
> seekers in the previous 3 months, has raised $90,000 is looking to raise
> $100,000. (http://mpawa.com/https://twitter.com/mpawa_africa )
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> Flowgear, from Gauteng, South Africa was among the few startups  targeted
> squarely at the Enterprise. Co-founded by Daniel Chilcott and JJ Milner,
> the startup is looking to exploit a $2.79 billion opportunity (Gartner,
> 2011) in the Cloud integration sector . Chilcott says the startup provides
> cloud management tools for firms allowing them to interconnect the
> different cloud solutions they have deployed, such Salesforce and
> SharePoint. Flowgear provides a codeless dashboard which allows a fast
> deployment. Drawings can also be imported from Visio and implemented in
> Flowgear. The SnapLogic competitor says its has received  $ 200,000 funding
> to date. (http://flowgear.nethttps://twitter.com/flowgear )
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> Qabila is a multimedia content crowdsourcing platform based in Cairo, Egypt
> and co-founded by Mahmoud Elshafie, Perihan AbouZeid, Mostafa Saeed, Amar
> Abu Shady and Ahmad Fatehlab. Perihan says that Qabila came about as a
> platform to provide better content than what was been shown on Egyptian TV.
> The platform was founded almost around the Egyptian Arab spring and rose in
> popularity with the spring with their content being featured in Al Jazeera.
> Qabila currently has 20,000 contributors and current clients include the
> World Bank, UNESCO and UNDP. The startup has funded itself to date and is
> looking for an additional $250,000 in funding.
> (http://qabila.tv https://twitter.com/QabilaTv )
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> Sasa Africa is an ecommerce platform connecting offline craftsperson to
> online consumers. Through the use of a mobile phone, craftspeople upload
> their products through SMS and MMS. Consumers then find the various crafts
> on sasaafrica.com. After a product is bought and paid for, a crafts person
> then receives a text message. They then have 48 hours to take the product
> to a mobile money kiosk where they are also able to collect their payments.
> The startup currently retails jewellery.
>
> Sasa Africa has so far been in testing and plans to launch in the coming
> week. Based in Nairobi, Kenya and founded by Ella Peinovich, Catherine
> Mahugu and Gwendolyn Floyd, the startup predicts to have 600 retailers by
> end year and 3500 products.  Sasa Africa has raised $125,000 through grants
> and prizes and is looking at raising $500,000. SasaAfrica target is 84
> percent of women in Sub Saharan Africa which it says work in the informal
> sector hoping to serve 100,000 artisans by 2015. (http://sasaafrica.com
> http://twitter.com/SasaAfrica )
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> Maliyo Games was the only gaming entrant in DEMO Africa. Based in Lagos,
> Nigeria, Oluseye Soyode-Johnson says that Africans are in need of locally
> relevant multimedia content. This he says is evident from the multi-million
> dollar film and song industry in Nigeria. He therefore believes that a
> casual gaming platform providing African themed games on mobile and PC has
> lots of potential. Amongst such games is the ?mosquito smasher? game where
> players thump mosquitos across various levels, each with its own theme. A
> social impact aspect in the game is a multi choice quiz on mosquitos and
> malaria in between each level. Maliyo games says the casual gaming industry
> is worth $20 billion. The startup is seeking  $300,000 in funding.  (
> http://www.maliyo.com/  https://twitter.com/maliyogames )
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> Hi listers,
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> Any interest in help set up a remote participation hub for the upcoming
> Baku IGF similar to the ones
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> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation/list-of-remote-hubs-2012
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>   If so, ping me off list.
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> Cheers,
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