SADC Innovation Challenge Lookbook

SADC Innovation Challenge objectives, competition timelines, the thematic challenges, the participant overview, and the in-country and regional winners.

Masterclass with Tomi Davies, Building an investment worthy startup

African innovation refers to innovative technologies, start-ups, and programs developed by Africans for African needs and challenges – African Innovation Foundation

Summary Report: Innovation Ecosystem Scoping in the SADC Region

The SADC region is not trailing far behind in the use of technological innovation to foster growth, with a small but fast-growing tech-enabled community.

View winners and there pitches at the SADC Innovation and Investment Challenge Finale

Below is an extract of our conversation, offering unique insight into a product impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands of migrants across South Africa:

TheDataHack4FI, the largest Pan-African innovation competition, is an initiative within the i2i (insight2impact) program jointly hosted by FinMark Trust and Cenfri.

The Shoprite cross-border money remittance product reached the R1 billion mark in January 2019

The current economic situation in South Africa presents a large number of people relying on the informal economy,

See highlights from the launch and day 1 of the first hackathon in Zimbabwe FinMark Trust has been a part of, the OneMoney Hackathon.

With more digital transactions being concluded, cash still dominates the scene.