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  • African Incubator Network (AIN)

    09 March 2010
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  • Table of contents:

    1. Durban Conference 17th - 19th March
    2. Letter to AIN from Ellen Olafsen, infoDEV
    3. You can keep up to date and participate with AIN colleagues.

  • 1. Durban Conference 17th - 19th March

    Theme - "Growing Economies through Incubation"

    The International Conference on Business Incubation, co-sponsored by infoDev, SABTIA and SEDA (The Small Enterprise Development Company), is the premier African gathering for incubation practitioners and economic development professionals from Africa. It is an opportunity for these professionals to get together at a conference and to participate in in-depth workshops, roundtable discussions and networking activities.

    Over 100 delegates are booked to attend already.

    Conference features:

    * Discussions around profiling and promoting incubation as an economic tool for small business development and growth.
    * Facilitation of creating a platform for developing best practice in African incubation
    * Opportunities for networking and alliance building
    * Spreading of learning and sharing information amongst "incubation" practitioners
    * Promoting dialogue and discussion amongst new and established incubators

    Other conference activities include the Opening Reception and Gala Dinner.
    Keynote addresses by industry leaders
    Exhibitions and tours of nearby incubators

    For further details follow the link below or call Zama Mlotshwa Tel: + 27 31 205 0051
    Email: zama@proactivepr.co.za

    Register and attend.

  • 2. Letter to AIN from Ellen Olafsen, infoDEV

    Dear colleagues,

    I was delighted to hear of the very positive outcomes of the recent AIN meeting in Addis including a new draft action plan, the election of Michael Reddy and Julie Momah as leads for the network, and the contributions of both Michael Reddy and Chris Vermuelen's organizations towards the network.

    Valerie and I look forward to seeing you all at the up-coming Africa Business Incubation conference in Durban, March 17-19. We would like to invite you to an AIN meeting on March 16th at 20:30 where we look forward to hearing your action plan and to discuss what is on infoDev's agenda for Africa in the coming year.

    For example, we will be holding a training for incubation managers and shareholders, an access to finance event, and a southern Africa policymaker workshop. InfoDev will also be launching a regional m-apps lab designed to promote mobile-apps entrepreneurs, and we will be examining the potential for agribusiness incubation in four African countries, as well as take a look at what could potentially be a good agribusiness incubation model in the African context.

    In each case, we will be looking for partners who would like to host, contribute their thinking or lessons, etc. We would therefore like to hear from those of you interested in partnering on some of these work program areas coming up.

    We are sorting out a meeting room for the AIN meeting on March 16th and will send this to you shortly.

    Best regards,

    Ellen
    Ellen Olafsen
    Operations Officer
    Infodev
    Global Information and Communication Technologies Department
    The World Bank Group
    www.infodev.org.
    www.idisc.net.

  • 3. You can keep up to date and participate with AIN colleagues.

    In addition to using YouNoodle here, AIN has several online options where members and supporters to collaborate, network and share success.

    We will be posting conference announcements and disseminating content from Durban next week.

    AIN on LinkedIN
    Knowledge sharing and discussions Portal
    infoDEV incubation tools and database
    Mapping incubation support within Africa

    New this month

    African Incubator Network's Blog