Startup Africa Talks: Recent Episodes
Startup Africa Roadtrip
The goal of Startup Africa Roadtrip is to support and drive cutting edge social innovation in developing countries, creating opportunities for entrepreneurial and startups ecosystem to grow locally and globally by equipping local entrepreneurs with the necessary skills and tools to execute their ventures and bridge the knowledge gap in high potential ecosystem throughout a structured learning process. Join us on our journey through this fascinating country and the people who represent its most flourish future.
This episode of Startup Africa Talks is really unique. The story of Ousman Umar, from Ghana, infact is almost incredible: risking his life walking through the desert of Sahara and losing dozens of friends, he finally reached the coast of Spain.
In Barcelona, after very difficult times, he has been able to re-start his life and step by step he developed its social enterprise: Nasco Feeding Mids now collaborates with Cisco Systems Inc. in order to support education through Internet in Ghana. Since 2012 the organization has been able to impact more than 15.000 students across 30 schools of the african country.
Discover his impactful story and the collaboration with Donald De Witte, Business Development Manager of Cisco, into our new podcast episode. Script: Francesco Rubino. Speaker: Francesco Rubino, Bianca Barone, Benyamin Bayat. Editing & Mastering: Valeria Murolo, Luca Baldessarini. Music: Ransom Beatz.
A casual chat with two young entrepreneurs. An opportunity to dive deeper into what the life of a startupper looks like in two different ecosystems: the Italian and the Kenyan one. Script: Francesco Rubino, Bianca Barone, Benyamin Bayat. Speaker: Francesco Rubino. Editing & Mastering: Valeria Murolo, Luca Baldessarini. Music: Ransom Beatz.
How innovation and design can be a changemaker for developing communities? In this first episode of Startup Africa Talks, we explore the topic with two professionals who strive for cutting-edge solutions that foster positive impact: Suné Stassen, designer, educator, social and impact entrepreneur and a design activist based in Cape Town, South Africa, and Andrea Piccolo, a Milan-based professional focusing on participatory design, research and user-centred design methods. Script: Sara Gabbioni. Speaker: Francesco Rubino. Editing & Mastering: Valeria Murolo, Luca Baldessarini. Music: Ransom Beatz.
Speaker: Francesco Rubino. Editing & Mastering: Valeria Murolo, Luca Baldessarini. Music: Ransom Beatz