Seed Capital for Web and Mobile Entrepreneurs in Emerging Africa Markets
www.chembe.com
What We Do to Help African Tech Entrepreneurs
Direct investments in pre-revenue ventures:- Status Uganda, Kickstarters Kenya
Sponsor conferences and workshops:- Barcamp Africa UK, Barcamp Abidjan Sponsor web sites:- Afrinnovator.com
Run business plan and VC competitions:- East-West Challenge, Chembe Urban Security Competition
2010 – betavine.com/chembecompetition
From Ingenuity to Innovation: Africa Leapfrogging the 20th century
Photo Credit www.afrigadget.com
Everyday African Hacks for Power, Light, Food and Fun
Photo Credit - Women of Uganda Network
Photo Credit Matt Berg www.buildafrica.org
Photo Credit Matt Berg www.buildafrica.org
Photo credit Paula Kahumbu www.afrigadget.com
Photo credit Paula Kahumbu www.afrigadget.com
Photo Credit www.afrigadget.com
Top photo credit TMSruge.com
Bottom photo credit www.afrigadget.com
Top photo credit Cedric KalonjiBottom photo Credit Luca Varaschini
Top photo credit www.solanterns.comBottom photo credit www.whiteafrican.com
Top photo credit www.businessweek.com
• 315 million mobile phone users – 32 % penetration
• 50 million internet users (fixed and mobile broadband) – 5 % penetration
400,000 settlements in Africa
• Of these – 4 % have access to at least 1 fixed line
• 2 % have access to an Internet connection
• 45 % have access to a mobile phone signal
Where’s the innovation
Mobile digital payment systems
Mobile social media networks
Mobile healthcare services
Mobile “Jua Kali”
M-PESA
24Photo credit Safaricom
• 7 million customers have registered with the service
• 9,000 distribution agents in Kenya• 150 million Ksh (US$1.96 million) is
transferred through M-PESA per day• Average amount is 1,500 Ksh (US$20) per
transaction• To date the system has handled over 130
billion Ksh (US$1.7 billion)
MXit
• 9 million users
• 17 million logins per day
• 250 k messages per day
MXit link on Nike billboard at OR Tambo Airport - photo credit Shuttleworth
Foundation
Pascal Katana - photo credit www.afrigadget.com
Kibera
• Population: 1 million
• 2.5 square kilometres (0.965 square miles)
• Less than 1% of Nairobi's total area – 25 % of Nairobi’s residents
• 1250 people per square acre
Chembe Competition: the brief
• early warning notifications of criminal activity, violence or other security threats
• assistance for families, communities at risk of crime
• reducing crime, preventing the spread of violence
• location, identification and assistance of victims of violence or crime
betavine.com/chembecompetition
• Upload a solution on BSX
• Anyone can enter: individuals, groups, companies
• Deadline: April 30th, 2010
• Must include sustainability plan, must be designed for deployment in an African urban environment
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