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Africa Gathering is a Platform for Cross Fertilization of Ideas for Africa

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Africa Gathering provides a space to bring technophiles, thinkers, entrepreneurs, innovators and everybody else together to talk about positive change in sustainable development, technology, social networking, health, education, environment and good governance in Africa.

 

Africa Gathering has been borne of the need to develop a results-driven conversation about technology and Africa. All over the world people have great ideas that could bring positive change to Africa. Many, though not all, of these people aren’t big charities or aid organisations – they are passionate individuals, inventors, thinkers, leaders and dreamers. These people may not have lots of money, time or the business acumen to promote their ideas on their own – but that doesn’t mean their ideas should be ignored. Africa Gathering exists to help generate interest in these people, share their ideas and promote their projects. We’re here to help bring innovators in to contact with journalists, entrepreneurs and investors – the very people who have the ability to recognise a good idea and help make it work.

 

Who should come to Africa Gathering:

  • If  you’re a business – to find out what other businesses are doing, to meet an engage with the business community
  • If  you’re an investor – to expose yourself to some of the most creative raw talent in the tech/Africa field
  • If  you’re an entrepreneur – to meet with other motivated people like you who are passionate about technology and positive social change
  • If you’re an inventor/innovator – come and be inspired by other creative minds. Talk, learn and share.
  • If you’re just interested – you’d be surprised at how much you can help by simply thinking about the ideas that are presented, making suggestions and feeling the atmosphere all helps. If you don’t come you’ll never know how you can fit in.

Toodu Connects People and/or Businesses Together To Get Tasks Done.

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Toodu is a free service that matches items on your to do list with people and businesses who can help you get things done. It is for users looking for individuals/business or businesses looking to offer personalised services based on user queries. This is still largely available in South Africa.

 

Toodu is an independent private company that believes that there is a better way to find and interact with the service providers you need to get all that you need to do done. Toodu is currently in beta release, which means we’d love your feedback on the service so we can improve it further. At Toodu we are always looking out for ways that we can partner or integrate with complementary services or properties in order to generate mutual benefit. If you would like to discuss any possibilities in this regard please contact us.

 

How does it work?

  1. Add an item to your toodu list.
  2. Start receiving personalised messages, advice, proposals, prices or quotes from our registered service providers.
  3. Pick the service providers you want to work with and start getting things done.

 

Why should I get/use it?

  • Toodu is a free service
  • Get effortlessly organised
  • Toodu is 100% localised to your city
  • Stop searching – get what you want to come to you.
  • We are passionate about your privacy – you will always be in control of who you share your contact details with.

The New Associated Press for Africa – Africa Interactive. Maybe, You Can Join Them If You Got The Skills

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Africa Interactive is a fast growing multimedia press- and content agency in Africa, with 2000 local reporters in 50 African countries. Their reporters tell the African story in text, photo or video.

 

Their database contains filmmakers, journalists, photographers, stringers and marketing experts who produce tailor made ‘High-end’ videos and ‘Simple Video Reports’ to showcase activities in Africa.

 

Services include:

 

Content Production:
•    High-end video productions
•    TV formats
•    Simple video reports
•    Text and Photography

 

Building your business in Africa:
•    Market Research
•    Communication solutions e.g. websites.
•    Access to African Business Communities           with more than 80.000 business leaders.
•    Access to >40 African TV Channels

 

Notable Events are

 

  • In May 2011 the Netherlands hosted 200 international knowledgeambassadors from 36 countries, who joined together to create aninternational knowledge network. They are all alumni who studied in the Netherlands.

Nuffic asked Africa Interactive to visit four alumni in Uganda, Colombia and India to see how they’ve benefited from their studies in the Netherlands.

 

  • For the Dutch organization Spark we produced videos to profile different entrepreneurs in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia

 

  • For the recently launched BoP Innovation Center we produced an introduction video. The centre accelerates the impact of market driven innovations in low income markets, by incubating new private sector initiatives, enabling learning and capacity development and influencing policy agendas to improve the enabling environment.

Looking for Seed Capital? Try Lunatech Ventures. Their Research Division is Awesome

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Are you an entrepreneur looking for seed investment or are you looking for a co-investor on this great idea you have? Learn about Lunatech Ventures. This company can be the real deal for someone with the right idea. It is Dutch based but they can go global.

 

We are seed investors, our main focus being Internet and Interactive media technologies. Our preference is for investment as equity (shareholding), this allows the investor and entrepreneur to share a goal – to create value for the company. We invest working capital, human resources, or a combination of both. We are willing to invest in pre-revenue companies – we may provide a company’s first working capital.

 

Their research division is also a cool one. We think that Dutch investors do put money in Africa. If you have got it, try this company, not just for the funds but partnerships and collaborations.

 

Lunatech Research was founded in 1993 as an IT consulting, product research and development team. As a team of adept self-managing architects and programmers, working with a very experienced commercial team, Lunatech has a successful track record of implementing medium-sized to large systems. Our skills are best applied in designing and building back office systems whereby a web interface is just one of many external user- interfaces.

 

We excel at going into your organisation, analyzing the requirements, and then – together with you – designing and building a system to meet your needs.

 

We work to an interactive development process. We build applications in a number of short iterations. This provides great visibility to the customer and it greatly improves the end result because the product and expectations can be adjusted along the way. With a proud record of providing professional IT services, joint ventures and investments in other peoples ideas, you’ll find us highly technical, very creative, and flexible.

Pulse is for Cameroon as Facebook is for World. Maybe, Pulse Could be for African Universities Soon

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They are building a social network site in Cameroon that will link students of the University of Beau. They hope to extend that to all African schools. The name is Pulse.

Notice this from their site – their site looked like Google + or Google + looked like Pulse. Either way, we have to hold off until they are done.

  • We working 24/7 to revamp our entire platform UI coz of the noticed similarity to Google plus.

The Motivation?

We started Pulse with  the idea to create a social network for the university of Buea, but after realizing a vast majority of African universities had no form of online student services, and how students depended solely on notice boards, in-class announcements and mouth to mouth communication, we decided it was time we did something about it.

Pulse is a social/geolocation platform aimed at connecting African universities, professors to their students. In other words, we trying to make African education look cool, Pulse will provide a platform where any university can own and operate its own high-end online students services at a low cost, without having to deploy any technical infrastructure, it will permit lecturers to communicate faster and cheaper to their students and lastly it will enable students to receive updates from their teachers and classmates through sms, web and email. We are building only for these category of universities and of course we taking into consideration the realities of African users, that means for us, that our platform will be centered around the mobile experience.