Africa’s Potential

What’s driving Africa’s growth? – McKinsey & Company.

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The Rate of Return on foreign investment is higher in Africa than in any other developing region. Global executives and investors has to pay heed.

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East-Africa Report on Private Equity.

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SIDA Conference on CleanTech, Creative & Innovative ideas.

During this week Africa’s Potential and more then 130 trade commissioners, ambassadors, innovators and entrepreneurs were invited to take part of SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) conference in Härnösand, the northern part of Sweden. SIDAs new initiative, the launching of the new program Business For Development (B4D). The focus of this conference aimed towards reaching out to Clean Tech, Creative & Innovative ideas in order to fight poverty in a more effective way.

During this conference world known speakers and innovators held seminars, such as Mr Günther Pauli (see the Youtube video below) Founder of the ZERI Foundation (Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives), which is a global network of creative minds seeking solutions to world challenges. The common vision shared by the members of the ZERI family is to view waste as resource and seek solutions using nature’s design principles as inspiration. He’s also the author of the Blue Economy book, which is reaching out regarding a new business model to inspire entrepreneurs to shape a new economy based on competative innovations, creating JOBS and SOCIAL CAPITAL.

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Africa’s Potential’s upcoming Lectures & Seminars.

Want to know more what Africa’s Potential’s vision & goals are and the current projects? Curious to find out what’s going on in the Rwanda incubator project and the making of the Swedish-East African Chambers of Commerce? Below is a list of a few lectures and seminars Africa’s Potential will be attending and holding during the months to come.

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Rwanda Report: The Western world should learn from Rwanda.

During my visit in Kigali I met the charismatic entrepreneur Fabrice Ngoga Shema, who’s today successfully running his paper bag production company, called SOGEM. (I’ve mentioned Fabrice in earlier blogs here at Africa’s Potential) In this Youtube-clip he tells his story of how the banning of the plastic bags in Rwanda became a great business idea and further on a company which found local financial solutions resulting in the making of SOGEM.

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The 16th Commemoration of the Rwandan Genocide

Yesterday, the 7th of April, was the 16th commemoration of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The Swedish Social Democratic Parliamentary Group held an event at the second chamber in the Swedish Parliament yesterday were Mr Kent Härstedt MP spokesperson at the Swedish International Development Cooperation (SIDA) welcomed a large number of ambassadors, members of parliament, NGO’s, Rwandan citizens living in Sweden. Africa’s Potential was also present to pay respect to  the almost 1 million people that perished during the 100 days long genocide.

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New Partner: Global Business Lab from Stockholm School of Economics.

Africa’s Potential has now succeeded in the mission to send two Swedish entrepreneurship-students, Sebastian Kirchsteiger and Carl von Post, from the Linneaus University to the Rwandan capital of Kigali, in order to create a business-plan/study for the potential building of a businessincubator in Kigali, together with Africa’s Potential’s partner Global Business Lab, which is founded and based at the Stockholm School of Economics. The aim for this project is to increase knowledge-transfer and trade between Sweden and Rwanda.

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The Africa’s Potential lectures.

During February 2010 the Founder & CEO of  Africa’s Potential, Emre Gürler, held a lecture for the business students (Civilekonomprogrammet) at the Linnaeus University‘s School of Management and Economics.

The lecture was a mix between how to get inspired to climb out of your comfort zone and to actually dare to take a look outside the security barriers that we in the Western world have created. We have to do this in order to see the vast opportunities that exist in  for example the East-African region.  A large reason why the world is waking up slowly is due to the fact of the African stereotypes and  negative massmedia portrayal of the African continent. Or rather, the lack of focus on the success stories of the continent. There has to be a more balanced massmedia picture of the African continent in order to make the general public aware of the vast opportunities that actually exist. What is the first thing that comes into your mind when you hear the word Africa? Is it positive or negative and why is that?

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