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Ethical Food Enterprise Panel, Social Enterprise Week

Part of a series of events for Social Enterprise Week, this session features social entrepreneurs who launched food enterprises discussing...

Conferences Environment Food & Beverage

From Small Steps to Big Change Panel & Film, Social Enterprise Week

Part of a series of events for Social Enterprise Week, this panel features entrepreneurs engaged in diverse sectors such as child safety, f...

Conferences Environment Social Entrepreneurship

Reviving Egypt's Handmade Paper Industry for a Sustainable Future

Throughout his life, the artist and social activist Mohamed Abou El Naga worked in the handmade paper industry in Alexandria. In 2005, he...

Egypt Environment

Green Enterprise Panel, Social Enterprise Week

Part of a series of events for Social Enterprise Week, this interactive session will bring together ‘ecopreneurs’ who have created inno...

Conferences Environment Social Entrepreneurship

Regional

Resource Scarcity and the Future of Business, Interactive Webinar

Aramex, ArcelorMittal, the London Business School and CSM will join a live webinar debate on resource scarcity, organized by the Ethical...

CSR Environment

Egypt's Tourism Gets Back on Its Feet at Rouqayah's Ranch

You think you're driving into the middle of nowhere, then thoughts of classic horror plots jump to mind. But once you arrive through...

Egypt Environment Food & Beverage

Save Paper at Your Startup, Part 2: Invoices

In the first part of the series, I wrote about digitizing your business cards. This article, the second in our series on saving paper (and...

Environment

KnowElectricity Teaches Pakistan About Energy Efficiency: Can It Become a Sustainable Business?

Scores of Pakistanis are curious about the potential for solar and wind energy to cut costs in a country where continuous power is at a...

Digital Media Environment Green Energy

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 09-13

Throughout your entrepreneurial journey, you will often be reminded of why connections and mentorship are important. Support is equally as...

Advice Agriculture CoE Cards

Save Paper at Your Startup, Part 1: Business Cards

This series of articles provides advice on how to cut down on the use of paper in the modern workplace. In startup working environments,...

Environment Startup Communities Technology

Pivoting to Solar Energy: India's Hind High Vacuum Company [Case Study]

This is the fourth installment of a new series on Wamda featuring companies in emerging markets around the world. Launched in 1965, the ...

Aureos Aureos Case Studies Business Development

Planting an Eco-Friendly Coworking Space in Cairo

New coworking space icecairo launched this month as the third installation of icehubs, an international coworking space brand...

Coworking Spaces Egypt Environment

Cycling: The Sustainable Solution to Egypt's Congestion Epidemic

Ever thought about using a bike for your routine travel in Egypt? This distinctly lo-tech solution to the country’s traffic problems w...

Education Egypt Environment

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

Grass E-Magazine Paves the Way for Scientific Journalism in the Arab World

More often than not, those who write in science journals are scientists rather than scienctific journalists. While several western...

Digital Media Environment Media

RecycloBekia Transforms Egypt’s E-Waste into a Commodity

Can recycling e-waste really be profitable? Twenty Tanta University students say yes, as they work to build an electronic waste...

Environment

Drawing from Tunisia's Rich History, a Wind Energy Innovation Sets Sail

At the TEDGlobal 2012 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, Tunisian entrepreneur Hassine Labaied presented Saphon Energy, a wind energy...

Technology Environment Wharton

Schaduf Sows Sustainable Development with Rooftop Farming in Egypt

In Cairo, two brothers are taking inspiration from an ancient irrigation tool to bring food security and self-sufficiency to low-income...

Environment

Less Talk, More Action Needed at Rio+20 Summit

Twenty years after the original Earth Summit, world leaders gathered once again to discuss humanity's sustainable development. This...

Ecosystem Environment

7 Ways to Create a Healthy Indoor Environment at Your Business

Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when someone says “air pollution” is the image of car exhaust filling the streets, industrial chi...

Environment

Beyond Recycling: Going Green in Saudi Arabia

Ask most people in Saudi Arabia what they know about going green and the first thing they say is “recycling." There seems to be a lot of b...

Environment

Wharton's First Innovation Tournament in the Middle East: A Competition of Ideas, and a Comparison of Challenges

[Meet all the Karmsolar team in a Wamda recorded quick interview, and learn more about the finalists here] Ahmed Zahran couldn't have been...

Environment

Egyptian Company KarmSolar Wins HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament 2021

The HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament, held this past Monday and Tuesday in Dubai, challenged entrepreneurs to produce innovative...

Green Energy Innovation Environment

Microsoft Imagine Cup UAE Announces Winner

Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a competition inviting software developers around the world to "imagine a world where technology helps solve the...

Competitions Environment Mobile Apps

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