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1. Inaugural DEMO Africa 2012 sets a precedent in bringing<br>
startup and innovation ecosystem actors together (Brian Munyao Longwe)<br>
2. Baku IGF interest in remote participation? (Ory Okolloh)<br>
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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:30:54 +0300<br>
From: Brian Munyao Longwe <<a href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com">blongwe@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: [kictanet] Inaugural DEMO Africa 2012 sets a precedent in<br>
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2012 DEMO Africa winners: mPawa, Flowgear, Qabila, Sasa Africa, Maliyo<br>
Games inaugural DEMO Lions Dennis Mbuvi<br>
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[image: DEMO Africa Lions]<br>
The first ever DEMO Africa Lions with DEMO Africa organisers. The five<br>
startups are headed to Silicon Valley.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
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Five startups drawn from across Africa have made it to the inaugural group<br>
of DEMO Africa Lions. This comes after two days of more than 42 pitches at<br>
the event held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). DEMO<br>
is an annual event now held in five continents where startups apply to<br>
launch new products and solutions. The five startups will be heading to<br>
Silicon Valley where they will receive mentorship and exposure to potential<br>
investors.<br>
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mPawa is based in Accra, Ghana and co-founded by Maxwell Kofi Efrem Donkor,<br>
Anthony Agyekum-Mensah, Nancy Neizer and Shadrack Boadu. The startup seeks<br>
to solve Africa?s jobless problem by focussing on the informal sector,<br>
which is the biggest employer in Africa. mPawa lists informal jobs such as<br>
carpenter?s on a portal where those who need such skills can find people to<br>
carry out their tasks. Maxwell says mPawa has already matched 2,000 job<br>
seekers in the previous 3 months, has raised $90,000 is looking to raise<br>
$100,000. (<a href="http://mpawa.com/https://twitter.com/mpawa_africa" target="_blank">http://mpawa.com/https://twitter.com/mpawa_africa</a> )<br>
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Flowgear, from Gauteng, South Africa was among the few startups targeted<br>
squarely at the Enterprise. Co-founded by Daniel Chilcott and JJ Milner,<br>
the startup is looking to exploit a $2.79 billion opportunity (Gartner,<br>
2011) in the Cloud integration sector . Chilcott says the startup provides<br>
cloud management tools for firms allowing them to interconnect the<br>
different cloud solutions they have deployed, such Salesforce and<br>
SharePoint. Flowgear provides a codeless dashboard which allows a fast<br>
deployment. Drawings can also be imported from Visio and implemented in<br>
Flowgear. The SnapLogic competitor says its has received $ 200,000 funding<br>
to date. (http://flowgear.nethttps://<a href="http://twitter.com/flowgear" target="_blank">twitter.com/flowgear</a> )<br>
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Qabila is a multimedia content crowdsourcing platform based in Cairo, Egypt<br>
and co-founded by Mahmoud Elshafie, Perihan AbouZeid, Mostafa Saeed, Amar<br>
Abu Shady and Ahmad Fatehlab. Perihan says that Qabila came about as a<br>
platform to provide better content than what was been shown on Egyptian TV.<br>
The platform was founded almost around the Egyptian Arab spring and rose in<br>
popularity with the spring with their content being featured in Al Jazeera.<br>
Qabila currently has 20,000 contributors and current clients include the<br>
World Bank, UNESCO and UNDP. The startup has funded itself to date and is<br>
looking for an additional $250,000 in funding.<br>
(<a href="http://qabila.tv" target="_blank">http://qabila.tv</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/QabilaTv" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/QabilaTv</a> )<br>
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Sasa Africa is an ecommerce platform connecting offline craftsperson to<br>
online consumers. Through the use of a mobile phone, craftspeople upload<br>
their products through SMS and MMS. Consumers then find the various crafts<br>
on <a href="http://sasaafrica.com" target="_blank">sasaafrica.com</a>. After a product is bought and paid for, a crafts person<br>
then receives a text message. They then have 48 hours to take the product<br>
to a mobile money kiosk where they are also able to collect their payments.<br>
The startup currently retails jewellery.<br>
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Sasa Africa has so far been in testing and plans to launch in the coming<br>
week. Based in Nairobi, Kenya and founded by Ella Peinovich, Catherine<br>
Mahugu and Gwendolyn Floyd, the startup predicts to have 600 retailers by<br>
end year and 3500 products. Sasa Africa has raised $125,000 through grants<br>
and prizes and is looking at raising $500,000. SasaAfrica target is 84<br>
percent of women in Sub Saharan Africa which it says work in the informal<br>
sector hoping to serve 100,000 artisans by 2015. (<a href="http://sasaafrica.com" target="_blank">http://sasaafrica.com</a><br>
<a href="http://twitter.com/SasaAfrica" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/SasaAfrica</a> )<br>
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Maliyo Games was the only gaming entrant in DEMO Africa. Based in Lagos,<br>
Nigeria, Oluseye Soyode-Johnson says that Africans are in need of locally<br>
relevant multimedia content. This he says is evident from the multi-million<br>
dollar film and song industry in Nigeria. He therefore believes that a<br>
casual gaming platform providing African themed games on mobile and PC has<br>
lots of potential. Amongst such games is the ?mosquito smasher? game where<br>
players thump mosquitos across various levels, each with its own theme. A<br>
social impact aspect in the game is a multi choice quiz on mosquitos and<br>
malaria in between each level. Maliyo games says the casual gaming industry<br>
is worth $20 billion. The startup is seeking $300,000 in funding. (<br>
<a href="http://www.maliyo.com/" target="_blank">http://www.maliyo.com/</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/maliyogames" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/maliyogames</a> )<br>
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Any interest in help set up a remote participation hub for the upcoming<br>
Baku IGF similar to the ones<br>
here<<a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation/list-of-remote-hubs-2012" target="_blank">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation/list-of-remote-hubs-2012</a>>?<br>
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