Tech Innovators Map: open-source database that traces existing African startups working with technologies and innovative solutions.

The Tech Innovators Map is a visualization map that traces existing innovative and tech solutions and supports co-designed and open innovation setups. This map was developed within the COOPEN initiative and it displays organizations, individuals and enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa that are tackling local and global challenges in the area of agriculture, circular economy and health.

 

Coopen is a participatory process, organised in four phases, with the aim of fostering the identification of innovative, sustainable and concrete technological solutions to meet specific challenges related to sustainable development in Africa. As a partner organization of Coopen, JengaLab was co-responsible for evaluating and selecting the innovative ideas and identifying the incubators that will work with the innovators. In fact, the map is a project of JengaLab, resulting from the classification of Coopen startups that participated in the call for innovators of the project.

 

The visualization map aims to create an open-source database containing general information about African startups working with technologies and innovative ideas to increase their visibility and connectivity with other organizations. So far, the map gathers 118 solutions carefully selected by JengaLab, divided into: 31 innovative solutions for the circular economy, 50 solutions for food and sustainable agriculture, and 37 solutions for health and well-being. The solutions are mostly located in the countries where Coopen works, ie: Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia (East Africa) and Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger (West Africa). The idea is to open the database so that startups, even if they are not part of coopen, can upload their solutions directly to the map.

 

The database will be accessible to everyone, it could be useful for organizations working in the development sector, organizations looking to invest, or innovators looking for a strategic partnership.

 

Tech Innovators Map: https://www.jengalab.org/en/map/

 

 

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