Wamda

Will a new startup accelerator focused on supply chain and logistics take off in Dubai?

These days, it seems incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere in the Arab world, especially in the UAE. One of the latest...

Logistics Supply chain Incubator

How to build a knowledge economy in the Arab world [Report]

Creating more decent jobs is a huge challenge the Arabic region is facing, particularly for the young, whose rates of joblessness are ...

Knowledge Economy Ecosystem Government

5 things the Ethiopian government could do to boost entrepreneurship

When it comes to entrepreneurship, Ethiopia is riddled with contradiction. A stunningly beautiful, tremendously friendly and fiercely...

Policy Government Ecosystem

Who's investing in Egypt? A look at economic trends following the revolution [Report]

While Egypt's economy has struggled ever since the revolution, its technological revolution is proceeding, according to a recent...

Telecommunication Egypt Government

Lebanese Government and Intel overhaul education by putting tablets in the hands of students

Intel and the Lebanese Ministries of Telecom and Education are hoping to make students' backpacks lighter this year, by offering them new...

Public-Private Partnerships Government Education

Saudi Arabian Company Proposes Shift to Friday-Saturday Weekend

In Saudi Arabia, a major industrial company may be leading the way towards changing the entire country’s weekend to Friday-Saturday, to b...

Policy Government

Government-backed investment in Egypt: Does it benefit entrepreneurs?

For many entrepreneurs in the Arab world, funding is the main obstacle standing between them and their dreams. The majority of young...

Egypt Investment

Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund launches to support Egyptian startups

Despite the political instability wracking Egypt today, startups have a new source of potential support. But will they take funding from...

Government Investment

Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Cross-posted and adapted from the original version published on the Harvard Business Review on April 10, 2013. I met Slovenian...

Public-Private Partnerships Government Legal

GCC Comes Out On Top in Global ICT Network Readiness [Report]

Qatar leads the Arab world in “networked readiness”, showing a huge boom in mobile broadband subscription from 9.6% to an enormous 70.3% ov...

Technology Government

Can Free Seed Money Build a $1 Billion Company? Welcome to Start-Up Chile

To me, Chile is not just a country located in South America; it’s also one of the biggest startups in the world. The Chilean government has ...

Government Ecosystem Startup Communities

Lebanese Telecoms Ministry Asks Citizens to 'Be The Minister' with New Game

In an attempt to engage with citizens online, Lebanese Telecoms Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui is offering young Lebanese participants...

Competitions Government Telecommunication

A Review of the Economic Factors that Led to the Arab Spring [Report]

The International Labour Organization, along with UNDP, has released a new report detailing the economic conditions that led up to the Arab...

Ecosystem Education Government

5 Innovative Ways to Crowdsource Better Governance

Whenever I hear people in the Arab region complain about the traffic, I tend to laugh. With the exception of Cairo, which has been bestowed...

Advice Crowdsourcing Government

PACE Civic Engagement Grant Application Deadline

The PACE (Promoting Active Citizen Engagement) program is soliciting grant applications from Lebanese NGOs to design and implement...

Government Social Change

Focus Entrepreneurship Policy on Scale-Up, Not Start-Up

Cross posted from the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, November 30, 2012. For more on scaling and the role of government in...

Government Scaling

World Bank’s Doing Business 2013 [Report]

The World Bank Doing Business has released it's 2013 report designed to assess the regions and economies making the biggest improvements f...

Ecosystem Government Infographic

Emokhalfa Takes on Cairo’s Traffic with New Violation Reporting App

Fixing Cairo’s traffic problems is not going to happen overnight. But new startup Emokhalfa is taking the problem into their own hands. It c...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Government

Understanding the Arab Digital Generation [Report]

A recent report by Strategy& and Google, Understanding the Arab Digital Generation, reveals interesting facts about how the newest...

Booz & Company Digital Media E-commerce

Sami Ben Gharbia of Tunisian Collective Blog Nawaat at SHARE Beirut [Wamda TV]

At the SHARE Beirut gathering last weekend, Nawaat co-founder Sami Ben Gharbia discussed the influence of Tunisian independent collective...

Censorship Conferences Diaspora

Egyptian National Competitiveness Council Disappoints: Where Were the Entrepreneurs?

I like to challenge my prejudices every now and then, so I decided to accept an invitation to the eighth annual conference of The Egyptian...

Conferences Ecosystem Egypt

OPIC and Abraaj Capital Commit $150M to Boost SMEs in MENA

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Egypt now have even more opportunities to for growth, as Sunday the Overseas Private...

Government Investment

Lebanese Telecoms Minister Interviewed by Wamda on Twitter - Here is How It Went

On Friday, Wamda hosted a Twitter interview with Lebanese Telecoms Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui to discuss entrepreneurship, innovation, and...

Government

Building Government-Startup Alliances [Pic of the Week]

Entrepreneurs and governments are often at odds, leery of working with each other and afraid to reach out to build an uncommon alliance....

Government Startup Communities Pic of the Week

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