Oasis500, Wamda, and ArabNet Angel Investor Event This event will be held in collaboration with Solidere - join us at Cloud5 for a round of pitches!This week and as part of ArabNet Beirut,... Wamda • 18 March, 2013 Pitching Arabnet Angel Investment
Insights from Mix n' Mentor Cairo: What You Missed This Saturday, we kicked off our 2013 roadshow by hosting Mix n’ Mentor Cairo, which brought around 300 of Egypt’s leading entrepreneurs a... Nina Curley • 18 March, 2013 Mix n Mentor Mentorship
Kenya's Elections #TechFail: What Went Wrong and How Citizen Reporting Won the Day Last week, Kenya hit the polls to elect the country’s 4th president since its independence 50 years ago. The turnout in Africa’s so-... Jonathan Kalan • 18 March, 2013 Elections Kenya Crowdmapping
Can Cultural Entrepreneurship Soothe Political Strife? The Nile Project Unites East Africa with Music Typically we think of entrepreneurship as the creation of new businesses, but working to change public opinion could be called cultural... Hanan Solayman • 18 March, 2013 Music Egypt Agriculture
Blood Donation Goes Online in Egypt After struggling to find an acceptable blood donor to save the life of one of his relatives, Hisham Kharma took the problem upon himself... Ahmed Gabr • 18 March, 2013 Crowdsourcing Egypt Health
CastPace: Bringing the Region's Independent Filmmakers Together [Wamda TV] During the Flat6Labs Cycle 3 Demo Day, Emad Mutter, founder and CEO of Castpace, the first regional online platform for the filmmaking and T... Omar Aysha • 17 March, 2013 Programme
Gazan Startup Wasselni Seeks to Solve Traffic Issues Across the Region [Wamda TV] Mariam Atoui recently founded Wasselni, a startup specialized in developing mobile and web applications tackling traffic and transport p... Mariam Hamed • 17 March, 2013 Mobile Transportation
Wamda Launches EdTech Mapping Project - Register Here Education in the Middle East and North Africa is in crisis. Employers lament low skilled job seekers, unemployment is at an all time high,... Nafez Dakkak • 17 March, 2013 Mapping EdTech Education
Egypt's Remotak Makes Your TV Guide Social Remotak offers a modern alternative to the old-fashioned paper TV Guide, providing detailed and interactive schedules for today's... Ahmed Gabr • 17 March, 2013 TV series Technology Social Networks
Weekly Wrap-Up: March 10-14 Ready for Mix N' Mentor? We are! Read up on this week's top news and announcements, and meet us at the Swiss Club in Cairo. See you at Mix... Wamda • 14 March, 2013 Zynga Weekly Wrap-Up Mobile Gaming
Training Businesses in Social Media Marketing, SoshTeck in Oman [Wamda TV] [Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Saba Al Busaidi of social media training company SoshTeck in Oman discusses how she re... Wamda • 14 March, 2013 Social Networks Social Media
Regional How to build a gaming ecosytem This is the third post in a content series called Wamda Debates. Every other week, the Wamda team debates a topic, industry, or... Glen Dalakian II • 14 March, 2013 maysalward Wixel Studios Zynga
Inside East Africa's Tech Hubs Part 2: Culture Click here to see the original photos on Picasa Web. In Part Two of this three-part photo series “Inside East Africa’s Hubs”, we... Jonathan Kalan • 14 March, 2013 East Africa Technology Coworking Spaces
6 Tips on Developing Games for Mobile, from Richard Rabbat of Zynga As Zynga looks to make a comeback by focusing on mobile, developers in the Middle East may want to take notes on its tips and tricks-... Nina Curley • 14 March, 2013 Zynga Social Advice
Who Loves Labneh? Lebanese Brand Krock's Eyes the Gulf Day after day, Ramzi Jalbout and his colleagues would gather during their lunch break at St. Georges Hospital in Beirut. Usually 9-to-5ers... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 14 March, 2013 Scaling Expansion Food & Beverage
Egyptian Startup Seeks to Streamline Travel Booking in the Middle East [Wamda TV] [Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, we chatted with Hussein Al-Sakkaf, Founder and CEO of Go Ejaza, a travel planning platform f... Wamda • 13 March, 2013 Egypt Travel