Africa’s Potential

Top 100 !

The Swedish career-magazine, Shortcut, each and every year rank the top 100 Swedes under the age of 40, that has made a significant change, or have made a great entreprenurial, political, economical and/or social change during 2011. A person that really stands out from the crowd with other words It’s with great joy that this year the Founder of Africa’s Potential & The Swedish East-African Chamber of Commerce, Emre Gürler was ranked among these 100 top talents.

“I try to spread positive stories and experiences that I have from the African continent, hopefully I can contribute to a more balanced picture, rather then the most negative mediaimage of the African continent. What about starting off by planing your next vacation to Lonely Planets number one destination for 2012, Uganda! “, was Emres comments on Shortcuts Top 100 listing. On our LinkedIn-group you can follow more discussion regarding African Entrepreneurship, events, microfinance issues, potential business partner and more general discussions.

Kwa heri, på återseende, warm regards,

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The Africa’s Potential Team.

Sida + SWEACC = True?

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Focus on East Africa – Trade & Investment Conference in London 29th – 30th June.

Focus on East Africa provides a platform for the broadest exposure to trade & Investment between the East African Community (EAC) and Europe.

The EAC is a dynamic regional economic bloc comprising 5 countries – Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi with a population of over 130 million people and a combined gross domestic product of US$73 billion.  The EAC region has plentiful natural resources, a youthful demographic structure and fast-growing economies. Furthermore, the EAC stands out in Sub-Saharan Africa as having the strongest momentum for integration between the countries, making it increasingly easy and profitable for multinational companies to operate in.

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Looking forward to the Globe Forum Final.

Africa’s Potentials Founder Emre Gürler, who also is the new Partner in the clean technology innovation company WatnerNeer won a Finalistprize in the innovations competition Globe Forums regional final in the Södermanland district in Sweden the 30th of March 2011.

In the competition Emre Gürler and WaterNeer competed against 8 other innovators that all had to convince the jury and the audience within a “60 seconds business pitch” that their idea was the best one innovative solution for sustainability and making great social-economical impact. Almost like the program Idol, but for Innovators!

Emre Gürler states after the win: ” This is a good start for WaterNeer, in order to be a part of a even larger network underneath the umbrella of the Globe Forum worldwide network of investors, governmental organizations, innovators, entrepreneurs and other change makers within the sustainability and clean-technology segment. Clean water is becoming a large scarcity in the entire world, especially in the developing world. This innovation transforms highly polluted water in lakes, ponds, mines, sewage systems into drinking water in a matter of seconds. More then 500 cubicmeter highly polluted water per hour can be transformed into drinking water in different product sizes, giving more then 1 million people 10 liters of clean drinking water, on a daily basis!  The sludge that comes out of the system can be used to build building materials, such as bricks. The aim is to spread this mobile water re-cycling system into more countries around the world. WaterNeer is a ultimate poverty reducer ! “

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Africa’s Potentials new Partner: WaterNeer Sweden.

Africa’s Potentials newest partner is WaterNeer Sweden, which is a innovation company within the water re-cycling business.

WaterNeer is a mobile water re-cycling system, which cleans highly toxic and polluted water, such as magnesium, arzenik, copper, lead, cadmium, zink, chromium and all other known toxics.

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Machakos GreenSolutions Conference in Kenya.

From the 17th to the 20th of April, representatives from Africa’s Potential will attend the Machakos GreenSolutions Conference in Kenya. The aim for Africa’s Potential is to promote WaterNeer, the innovative mobile water re-cycling system to the Kenyans and other investors in the East-African emerging market.

The conference is jointly organized between SIDAs (Swedish International Development Agency) Business 4 Development program and the Kenyan Government, in order to boost innovative solutions to Kenyas pressing social problems. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for Local Authorities in Kenya to deliberate and identify entry points for sustainable local development values and solutions as they deliver services to the Kenyan people.

Some of the speakers at the GreenSolutions conference are from these organizations: Africa’s Potential, The Natural Step, Sida Partnership Forum, Foresight Economics, NEMA, ADEP, Clean Tech Region, e.t.c. After the conference representatives from Africa’s Potential will be heading to Addis Abeba for more investment meetings promoting the innovative water recycling solution, WaterNeer.

“The City of the future!” – Kigalis bold 2020 Vision.

Will you be in Stockholm the 16th of March?

The Swedish-East African Chamber of Commerce (SWEACC) Entrepreneurship Seminar: “Being a Swedish Entrepreneur working in East-Africa!”. In this event SWEACC is co-branding this Entrepreneurship seminar together with the Venture Capital 4 Africa (VC4Africa) community the 16th of March, 2011.

The Swedish – East African Chamber of Commerce (SWEACC) is organizing an inspirational entrepreneurship seminar where Swedish entrepreneurs show-case their successful businesses and projects in East-Africa. You will also get the chance to meet other Swedish entrepreneurs which are active in the region after the speeches, during the mingle.

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