In partnership with Sweden, infoDev’s Mobile Innovation program is proud to announce the mAgri Challenge. Finalists will be invited to pitch before investors in November 2013.

A New Global Initiative to Help Governments Address Wireless Data Growth and Close the Digital Divide.

Singapore, 17^th June 2013, 24 companies and organizations from across the world:

The commission is undergoing remarkable modernization including structural changes and implementation of new and more attractive scheme of service and competitive salary structure. Due to this modernization and structural changes, the following positions are vacant and require to be filled as soon as possible.

Invitation for Bids (IFB)

UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY HIGHER EDUCATION PROJECT

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Global Innovation through Science & Technology (GIST) is a project implemented by the NGO CRDF Global, in collaboration with Dar Teknohama Business Incubator (DTBi) with the support of infoDEV (World Bank) and COSTECH. They are organising the GIST Startup Boot Camp on May 7-8th 2013 at COSTECH 9am-6pm.

International Conference on “Challenges of Urbanization and Development in Africa in the Context of Climate Change”

24^th – 26^th July 2013, Arusha, TANZANIA

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Mobile phone use in the developing world is exploding, yet women risk being left behind.

21% fewer women than men own a mobile phone in low- to middle-income countries. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the gap is estimated to be 23%; in the Middle East, 24% and in South Asia it rises to 37%.1 The result is a mobile phone gender gap estimated to be 300 million women in the developing world without access to this potentially life-enhancing tool.

Tanzania is set to host the next Smart Partnership Dialogue that is scheduled to take place from 28th June to 1st July, 2013 in Dar es Salaam.

The Hackathon was a success! 22 hackers started to work on 6 challenges, such as plugging Swahili translation services, gazetteer services and human sensor webs into interoperable web applications. Today the Hack ended with presentations by the participants in the Innovation Space at COSTECH. The best teams won IT books and headsets

TANZICT stands for The Information Society and ICT Sector Development Project. It’s bilateral collaboration project between the Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology of Tanzania (MCST) and Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

The innovation space is a meeting space for the local ICT & developer community. So if you need a place to work on your projects ideas, apps or business ideas, you can come and work from the space. You are also most welcome to organize community events in the space