Weekly Wrap-Up: September 02-06

It’s finally Thursday and time for our Weekly Wrap-Up! If you're game for taking your business to the next level, don't miss this week's to...

Wamda • 06 September, 2012

Crowdsourcing Fadi Ghandour Gaming

Provide Structure and Freedom for Innovation [Pic of the Week]

This week, activists participated in a blackout to protest ICT censorship in Jordan, a move aimed to prevent two amendments from...

Glen Dalakian II • 30 August, 2012

Government Pic of the Week

Deadline for Impact Lab's acceleration program, Morocco

Impact Lab, an accelerator for impact startups working in partnership with Numa Casablanca, is looking for French-speaking startups...

Wamda • 05 May, 2016

StartUp Maroc Championship

StartUp Maroc Championship is a disruptive event designed to bring together new and experienced entrepreneurs with investors, mentors, ...

Wamda • 16 October, 2015

championship startup maroc entrepreneurs

We need to support MENA’s ‘Silicon Wadis’

Mouayed Makhlouf is the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) director of the Middle East and North Africa region. With a staff of...

Mouayed Makhlouf • 15 July, 2015

Mouayed Makhlouf ifc sme

Does your startup have what it takes to get into a top accelerator?

Applying for a MENA accelerator or a global one can turn out to be a time-consuming process, so it’s important to make ...

Aline Mayard • 19 January, 2015

Hxlr8r accelerator Hardware

Mauritania enters the startup game

Mauritania's flag flies high. (Image via Xinhuanet.com) Mauritania's tech and startup scene started late but is growing, due to the hard...

Aline Mayard • 08 December, 2015

Startup Mauritania

TIEC Digital Arabic Content Workshop

As part of their collaboration, the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) and the United Nations Economic...

Wamda • 11 February, 2014

un Egypt cairo

MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition

For the first time since its launch in 2005, the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition, operated in partnership with Abdul Latif...

Wamda • 23 December, 2013

competition MIT

AstroLabs partners with Blackbox to send a Middle Eastern startup to Silicon Valley

AstroLabs, the startup workshop series, is now joining ranks with the organizations working to connect startups in the Middle East with...

Wamda • 26 November, 2013

tim draper blackbox silicon valley

Pioneers of Egypt Award, promoting social entrepreneurship, enters second round

After the 2011 start of the Egyptian revolution and the subsequent unrest, social entrepreneurship organizations exploded onto the...

Hanan Solayman • 09 October, 2013

Gaza Sky Geeks bootcamp prepares entrepreneurs to pitch to investors [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Last week, MercyCorps Gaza and Oasis500 partnered to organize their first week long bootcamp in Gaza, in collaboration with Gaza ...

Mariam Hamed • 09 September, 2013

Accelerators Investment Oasis500

How can governments better support entrepreneurs? [Wamda TV]

At the World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, Wamda chatted with Yasar Jarrar, a Young Global Leader working as a Partner at Bain ...

Nina Curley • 15 July, 2013

World Economic Forum Government Mentorship

Rethinking Economic Growth: The Full Report

The International Labour Organization, along with UNDP, has released a new report, titled Rethinking Economic Growth: Towards Productive...

Wamda • 05 February, 2013

Government Trends

A Chat with Dan Isenberg on Scaling and the Role of Government in Entrepreneurship [Wamda TV]

In a candid chat at the recent World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai, Daniel Isenberg, professor at Babson University ...

Nina Curley • 02 December, 2012

Advice Ecosystem Government

A Chat with Fadi Ghandour: How to Encourage Entrepreneurship in the Arab World [Wamda TV]

At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last month, Fadi Ghandour discussed opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs in the Arab world, in an...

Nina Curley • 12 November, 2012

Abu Dhabi Media Summit Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour

Digital Spring: MENA Governments Must Speak the Language of Social Media [REPORT]

This report, published by Strategy&, reveals the ways in which social media is driving a digital revolution in the Middle East and...

Booz and Company • 05 September, 2012

Government Social Media

Successful Models for Creating an Inclusive Government [Wamda TV]

One theme that was widely championed at the World Economic Forum Special Meeting in Jordan last month was the need for countries in the...

Nina Curley • 22 November, 2011

Advice Government

Arab World Needs to Catch Up with Cloud-Based Services [Wamda TV]

Husni Khuffash, Microsoft's Country Manager in Jordan, talks to Wamda at the World Economic Forum Special Meeting about the IT challenges...

Nina Curley • 04 November, 2011

Cloud Computing Government Job Recruitment