Creating Sustainable Businesses

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Program milestones

We continue to make progress on our Creating Sustainable Businesses objectives and agenda. The table below is a regularly updated summary of results since our formal launch in December, 2009!

Tracks	Results
Mobile Applications	Selected host organizations for mLabs in Armenia, Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam. Launched 8 Mobile Social Networking hubs in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Kampala, Hanoi, Kathmandu, Baku, Chisinau, and Tbilisi
Tech Entrepreneurship & Business Incubation	Business Incubator Manager training took place on May 28th and 29th in Helsinki as a supplement prior to the Global Forum
Global Forum	30 May to 3 June, 2011 (Helsinki, Finland) The infoDev Top 50 SMEs were showcased at the SME Fair during the Global Forum Have a look at our official website for conference materials and information

Highlights

Mobile Innovation Roadshow empowers Southern African entrepreneurs and app developers

11 April 2013 | To support mobile application development and help mobile startups leap from prototypes to profitable enterprises in Southern Africa, infoDev and the Southern Africa Innovation Support (SAIS) Program organized the Mobile Innovation Roadshow – a month-long pioneering initiative in mobile innovation in the countries of Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique and Botswana. More

Call for comments – infoDev’s Work Program 2013-2015

1 April 2013 | infoDev has released a draft three-year Work Program, which sets out its vision to support innovation and technology entrepreneurship in the developing world as tools for job growth, competitiveness and inclusive and sustainable development. More

Interactive math learning tool wins PitchIT Caribbean grand prize

18 March 2013 | Trinidad and Tobago’s Rick Cooper claimed the PitchIT Caribbean grand prize today with Interact XL, an online math tutoring platform. The infoDev-run pitching contest sought to make the region’s mobile and web startups more attractive to investors through hands-on pitch coaching. More

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Featured Publications

Growing Food, Products and Businesses

Applying Business Incubation to Agribusiness SMEs More

Transforming the East African ICT Sector by Creating a Business Engine for SMEs

Mobiles at the Base of the Pyramid- TOR

Mobiles at the Base of the Pyramid- Project Concept Note

infoDev's Climate Technology Program

Informational brochure More

Open Innovation Africa Summit provides essential platform for Africa’s innovators

Lessons on Virtual Business Incubation Services

Final report More

More publications

Finland, Nokia, and infoDev partner in a €12.9 million program Creating Sustainable Businesses in the Knowledge Economy. The aim of the program is to encourage innovation and competitiveness among SMEs in the information and communication technologies and agribusiness sectors in particular.