infoDev’s 4th Global Forum on Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Posted on: May 6, 2011 – Filed under: Global
MobileMonday is a proud supporting partner for this important event and will host a very special MoMo gathering on the evening of May 30th – Full Details Here – to welcome some 250 visiting delegates. We continue to expand our activities in Africa and the Middle East, noting most recent new chapter debuts in Ghana, Nigeria, Palestine and Tanzania with upcoming launches in Senegal and Egypt. These teams join established groups well underway in Algiers, Islamabad, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.
infoDev’s 4th Global Forum on Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship will be held in Helsinki, Finland, on May 30 to June 3, 2011, at the Marina Congress Centre. The event is carried out within the framework of a joint program with the Government of Finland and Nokia on Creating Sustainable Businesses for the Knowledge Economy.
The list of infoDev Top 50 SMEs featured at this event emphasizes the remarkable efforts by entrepreneurs around the world to spur technological innovation. Thirty-six of the selected Top 50 SMEs focus their work on the field of Mobile and ICT. In countries ranging from Brazil to Belarus and Senegal to Syria, these SMEs are harnessing digital technology to drive innovation in a diverse array of industries, such as speech recognition and graphic design.
These top 50 SME’s will be participating in the 4th Global Forum in Helsinki, where they will be introduced to mentors, business angels, corporate partners, like-minded entrepreneurs, and other business incubators. InfoDev shall select 20 winners out of the Top 50 participants through a mixture of Global Forum participant voting, worldwide online voting and professional ranking by participating judges who are venture capitalists and senior executives.
This €12.9 million program, running from 2010-2012, focuses on enhancing the competitiveness of emerging market SMEs in the information and communication technologies (ICT) and agribusiness sectors in particular. The program will also employ the use of the mobile communications platform to grow content, services and applications for developing countries.
We look forward to see you all in Finland very soon!
UPDATE JUNE 6th
Great event, so many inspiring people and presentations, videos now available online for all to watch! We especially enjoyed the talks by both Erik Hersman and Pekka Himanen on Mon. May 30th.. 😎
