Palestine This startup wants to modernize vaccination management While waiting at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, Hafeth Zughayer noticed parents coming in and arguing with the nurses after learning... Rafat Abushaban • 23 September, 2015 Jerusalem Universal Baby Vaccinations digital health care
Saudi Arabia How this Saudi app developer is nurturing talent [Update]: Ibtikar released a new trivia game called HEXA, with tens of thousands of questions in more than 15 different fields... Ahmed Gabr • 13 October, 2015
Regional Prototype to product: how to manage your manufacturing Manufacturing is one of the final obstacles for hardware startups and it can be a rage-inducing affair. Flaky suppliers, the belated... Rachel Williamson • 20 September, 2015 pch manufacturing Hind Hobeika
Regional Does your business really need an Arabic Top Level Domain? It’s now possible to buy domain names in non-roman letters including Chinese, Arabic and Russian, following a major expansion in the kinds o... Abdulghani Kataya • 29 September, 2015 TLD top level domains
Regional Three killer strategies to engage your inactive app users [Opinion] Keeping your app users engaged is an art and a science. (Image via eventasticme.com) Through my work with AppsGuru I've seen... Faisal Al Bitar • 17 September, 2015 retention churn rate Faisal Al Bitar
Regional Africa Code Week aims to teach 20,000 children to code in one week Almost everybody has heard of Code.org, the American non-profit that aims to get kids to code. They’re hard to miss. In 2013, the o... Aline Mayard • 15 September, 2015 Africa code week Coding for Kids
Regional How to attract and retain talent [Opinion] People are arguably the single most important component of any venture. With the proliferation of technology startups in the region,... Johnny Matta • 07 September, 2015 johnny matta human resources talent
Jordan Do employers still care about your college degree? Just how important is a university degree? It depends on the field of study and who you ask. Wamda posed this question to employers,... Maya Rahal • 14 September, 2015 degrees Akhtaboot Cares Initiative Job fair
Global Telemedicine in the Middle East, the time is now The time is now. (Image via CommsMEA) In 2001, a team of French and American physicians in New York made history by remotely... Natasha D'Souza • 02 September, 2015 digital health care MEMakers AlemHealth
Lebanon What we learned: Mix N’ Mentor Beirut Even the most amazing of ideas need a little help. (Images via Wamda with Sam Fakhoury) During our Mix N’ Mentor Beirut we gained s... Lucy Knight • 10 September, 2015 Choueiri Group Diwanee Y Venture Partners
U.A.E A new addition to MENA's hardware facelift When Prashant Gulati (also known as PK) was 10 he asked his father for a carpenter’s kit. In those days child-friendly kits wouldn’t hav... Pamela Kesrouani • 06 September, 2015 The Assembly MEMakers Maker space
Regional Industrial Internet and energy efficiency in the Middle East When a car’s fuel is running low, a little dial will let you know, and on the average car you can bet you’ve got about 40km at... Lucy Knight • 13 August, 2015 Energy saving Satchnet Chifco
Jordan Med-tech vying for attention in Jordan A slip of the finger, or a movement too quick, and a healthcare professional can find themselves with a needlestick injury. That is what... Lucy Knight • 31 August, 2015 iPark Jordan medical hardware innovation digital health care
Regional Technology is taking over the world (and the Middle East) This is a crosspost with Boostmena. Google was founded in 1998 and Facebook was founded in 2004. Fifteen years ago, businesses had no way... Amir Farha • 23 August, 2015 Smart Devices smartphones Technology
Regional Where can you spend your bitcoins in the Middle East? Though Bitcoin in MENA is in its infancy, demand and adoption are fast growing. (Image via BitOasis) This is a crosspost with... Dina Saman • 01 September, 2015 bitcoins Bit Oasis Bitcoin
U.A.E Green Truck: a UAE private recycling service The Green Truck warehouse. (Image via Green Truck) The UAE has one of the highest per capita waste generation rates in the world. Putting... Rachel McArthur • 23 August, 2015 Green Truck MEMakers waste
U.A.E Skateboarding gets a wearable Wearables, especially those for fitness and healthcare, are getting a lot of attention, from athletes looking to improve their performance... Pamela Kesrouani • 27 August, 2015 Flip Technologies RideBlock wearable
Iraq Hacking out coworking spaces in Iraq If there’s one country in the region where entrepreneurs need a good coworking space, it’s Iraq. Baghdad’s two coworking spaces are opera... Marwan A. Jabbar • 19 August, 2015 burj babel fikra space hackerspace
Egypt InfoMed digitizes Egypt's family doctors A spate of high-profile deaths in Egypt from medical misdiagnosis has highlighted the need for better all-round medical care in... Eman Mostafa • 19 August, 2015 family medicine ehealth InfoMed
Regional Get your code on in the MENA region The Coding Cirlce in action. (Image via The Coding Circle) We have covered in the past various coding camps and courses, for both adults... Lucy Knight • 12 August, 2015 Developing Algocode Le Wagon
Egypt Dopay does banking for unbanked Egyptians Dopay, one of the early startups to get involved in Egypt's financial technology sector, is hoping to build a web of clients among the... Sara Aggour • 13 August, 2015 unbanked Dopay financial services
Jordan Amman dance studio is building a space for collaboration and social change "Everyone is a dancer by nature," claims Anas Nahleh, 23. Anas and his brother, Abdul Hadi Nahleh, 25, shared a passion for dancing for... Kristin Chase • 11 August, 2015 Jabal Al-Weibdeh Studio 8 amman
Regional An ecommerce startup reducing returns in the region If there’s one industry worth taking a chance on in the region, it’s ecommerce. Arguably still in its infancy in MENA, the... Rachel McArthur • 09 August, 2015 Return on delivery Virtusize Miella
U.A.E UAE creates future female robotics entrepreneurs The UAE could produce MENA’s next wave of female robotics and hardware entrepreneurs, as technology programs throughout the Emirates... Maysaa Ajjan • 11 August, 2015 robotics uae abu dhabi