Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
Will you be in Stockholm the 16th of March?
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
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.
Tags: Africa, Africana Travel, Bratt International, David Lenefors, Emre Gürler, Entrepreneurship, Global Business Labs, investment, Micael Edler, Mikae Samuelsson, Stockholm, Svenskt Handel, SWEACC, Swedish Trade, Swedish- East African Chamber of Commerce, VC4Africa, venture capital
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VC4Africa: Connecting entrepreneurs with investors.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
VC4Africa was started as a LinkedIn group in the spring of 2008 and has grown organically into what is now the largest online community dedicated to Venture Capital in Africa. The VC4Africa community and related platforms have always been free for anyone to join, and the entire network and its content remain open and accessible.
Currently the community can be found on social networking platforms like LinkedIn (+/- 3.900 members), LinkedIn Incubators (+/- 2.200), VC4Africa.com (+/- 3.300 members), VC4Africa.biz (+/- 3.400), Facebook Group (+/- 550 members) and Twitter (+/- 5.000). Members of the VC4Africa community use these social platforms to connect with other members and to exchange knowledge, information and contacts.
Tags: Africa, Ben White, VC4Africa, venture capital
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The Lion Kings?
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
The average African economy will outpace its Asian counterpart
MUCH has been written about the rise of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and the shift in economic power eastward as Asia outruns the rest of the world. But the surprising success story of the past decade lies elsewhere. An analysis by The Economist finds that over the ten years to 2010, no fewer than six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were in sub-Saharan Africa (see table).
The only BRIC country to make the top ten was China, in second place behind Angola. The other five African sprinters were Nigeria, Ethiopia, Chad, Mozambique and Rwanda, all with annual growth rates of around 8% or more. During the two decades to 2000 only one African economy (Uganda) made the top ten, against nine from Asia. On IMF forecasts Africa will grab seven of the top ten places over the next five years (our ranking excludes countries with a population of less than 10m as well as Iraq and Afghanistan, which could both rebound strongly in the years ahead).
Tags: Africa, BRIC, FDP growth, Lion Kings, Rwanda, The Economist, Uganda
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What’s driving Africa’s growth? – McKinsey & Company.
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
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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.
Tags: Africa, Africa's growth, Africa's Potential, Economy, McKinsey
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Africa’s Potential’s upcoming Lectures & Seminars.
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
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.
Tags: Africa, east, East-African entrepreneurship program, entrepreneurs, foundation, HQ Bank, incubator, lectures, Oriflame, Rework, Rwanda, seminars, Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm School of Economics, Swedish trade council, Tällberg
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Real challenges/opportunities for the new emerging market.
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Tags: Africa, Aid, development, effectiveness, emerging market, OECD
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Biometric ID solutions in Uganda – a BCTA initiative.
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Tags: Africa, Asia, BCTA, biometric, CEO's, cisco, Clinton Global Initiative, coca cola, emerging market, ID, international business community, MAP International, Pepsico, sony ericsson, Standard Charted, Uganda, UK Government, UN Global Compact, UNDP, US Chambers of Commerce, vodafone, Yoweri Museveni
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Africa’s Potential in Rwanda.
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Africa’s Potentials Emre Gürler has been invited to take part of a Swedish delegation, consisting of representatives from the Swedish Trade Council (Exportrådet), the Swedish institute of international affairs (Utrikespolitiska institutet) as well as the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv).
Tags: Africa, Africa's Potential, Emre Gürler, Entrepreneurship, Facebook, Kigali, post-war, Rwanda, sustainability, sustainable society, svenska exportrådet, svenskt näringsliv, Swedish institute of international affairs, Swedish trade council, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, utrikespolitiska institutet
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Recent posts from our blog…- Top 100 ! January 25, 2012The 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 […]
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- Machakos GreenSolutions Conference in Kenya. April 12, 2011From 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 SID […]
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- Will you be in Stockholm the 16th of March? February 22, 2011The 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 […]
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