Posts Tagged ‘SIDA’
SIDA Conference on CleanTech, Creative & Innovative ideas.
Friday, May 21st, 2010
- World reknown innovator & super entrepreneur, Günther Pauli, held a passionate seminar at the SIDA conference.
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.
Tags: B4D, Business for Development, Gunther Pauli, SIDA, Sunita Narain, ZIRI
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Aid + Entrepreneurship = True?
Monday, December 14th, 2009
Photo of Gunilla Carlsson was taken by the Foreign Ministry's Arba Kokalari, 9/12 - 2009.
During the workshop and seminar “Opening up the Aid/Öppna Biståndet” last Wednesday with Gunilla Carlsson the Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs made an open-hearted and sincere gesture that she and SIDA needed innovative and creative solutions in order to make the Swedish Aid more effective.
The seminar was initialized by the world famous Professor in Global Health from Karolinska Institutet, Hans Rosling. founder and director of Gapminder, he is one of the world’s “100 most important global thinkers” of 2009, according to Foreign Policy Magazine. The speech he held at the Bonnier Conference Center was really as astonishing, impressive and energetic as the talks I’ve seen on TED. You could call him “The guy who brought sexy back to Statistics”.
Tags: African, Bonnier Conference Center, Entrepreneurship, Gunilla Carlsson, Hans Rosling, Öppna Biståndet, SIDA, Swedish Foreign Ministry, TED-talk, workshop
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Innovative & effective aid-ideas in the making, Swedish Aid 2.0?
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Innovative & effective aid-ideas by the African horizon?
Tags: Africa's Potential, Aid, Aid 2.0, breakthrough, Gunilla Carlsson, SIDA, Swedish Aid, Swedish Foreign Ministry
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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 […]
- Top 100 ! January 25, 2012
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