The Promise of Tech Labs

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From barcamps,innovation hubs, to startups and tech spaces Rebecca Wanjiku of Computerworld writes:

Availability of affordable bandwidth, growing synergies between IT industry and academia, government policy reforms and emerging opportunities in the IT sector have led to growth of incubation labs outside the orbit of the corporate giants in Africa... The tech scene in Ivory Coast changed a great deal with the first BarCamp Abidjan last year and will undoubtedly be further strengthened by this years event in the first weekend of March; these events have let to the creation of Akendewa, said Miquel Hudin, founder of Maneno.org, a multilingual blogging platform.
Apart from supporting each other and sharing ideas, the labs are serious about developing interesting applications capable of competing globally.

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