Wamda

Syria

Is there any hope for Syria’s startups?

It has been 12 years since the civil war in Syria devastated the country and its economy. What was once a promising middle income country...

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Global

How blockchain can enable economic inclusion of refugees

Jessica Camus is Head of Partnerships and Impact at Diginex. Chris Hambarsoomian is Senior Associate, Government Solutions at...

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Egypt

In conversation with Sami Al Ahmad of Marj3

For Sami Al Ahmad, applying to study abroad and finding a scholarship was a lengthy and tedious process when the Syrian national was...

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Regional

Innovation in the hands of refugees

According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are 67 million refugees worldwide of these, 85 per cent are hosted by...

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Syria

Three teams won in Startup Weekend Homs

Over three days, and starting April 20, 2018, Startup Weekend Homs team held a Techstars Startup Weekend event at Jouri Hall in Al-Malaab...

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Syria

Startup Weekend Homs

Techstars Startup Weekend Homs is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of...

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Lebanon

Jusoor Entrepreneurship Competition 2018

Jusoor opened up registration for its fourth annual Entrepreneurship Competition this month. The competition is open for application...

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Regional

Innovate For Refugees 2017 [Call for Applications]

MITEF Enterprise Forum Pan Arab's Innovate for Refugees is designed to attract the best tech-driven solutions addressing the...

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Syria

Votek and Loujee secures $1M investment

Votek Inc, developer of Arabic speech recognition software, governmental intelligent assistants and the first Arabic smart toy (Loujee)...

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Lebanon

Syrian entrepreneurs raise their voices at Jusoor

“War is always louder, but we want to raise the voices of youth and entrepreneurship”. This is how Ahmad Bayram, managing...

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Lebanon

Jusoor Entrepreneurship Competition

Registration for Jusoor’s third annual Entrepreneurship Competition has opened to all Syrian entrepreneurs looking to develop...

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Syria

Off-the-grid communication reassures loved ones during war [Q&A]

In Syria, after a bomb goes off, phone lines go down for at least 30 minutes leaving panicked families without a means to check...

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United States

3D printed hope: new limbs for Syrian refugees

When Ibrahim Mohammad started selling juice in the streets of Lebanon at the age 12 to support his family, he made $0.5 a day. Back then,...

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Jordan

2017 NLG EdTech Summit

The 2017 NLG Edtech Summit is a forum where edtech innovations and projects from the region that support children most impacted by the...

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Syria

Wikilogia to raise the bar in Damascus ecosystem

On December 10, Damascus-based Wikilogia launched Startup Technology Trends Program (STTP) with the aim of injecting confidence and...

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Global

Startup Watch: Kardashians, Hyperloops, and the death of No Vacancy

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Global

Natakallam gives Syrian refugees both a voice and an income

Several times this summer, Andrew Haas sat at his laptop at 9 am in his Seattle apartment dialing the same number on Skype. On the other...

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Syria

Artificial intelligence startup wins at Jusoor competition

Arabot, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to build online Arabic chatbots, won first place at Jusoor’s third annual...

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Syria

Startup Weekend Damascus: here are the winners!

Tabbakh Rou7o, an app that matches home cooks with customers seeking affordable meals, snagged the first prize at Startup Weekend Damascus...

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Syria

10 tech ideas to prevent a lost Syrian generation

“Between two million and three million Syrian children are not attending school. The UN children’s agency says the...

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Syria

Startup Weekend Youth Of Damascus

Despite all the hurdles and challenges facing Syrians during the past few years, a group of enthusiastic innovators managed to organize a...

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Syria

Wikilogia: The Syrian NGO that brought open source learning to Damascus

As the nearly six year war raged on in Syria, hundreds of entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts were quietly thriving in Damascus. They are...

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Syria

Syrian hardware startup Daraty dodging country's challenges

Two engineering students in Syria’s capital are overcoming the enormous challenges in their war-torn country to launch Daraty, an...

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Syria

High risk, high reward: Mag Optics wants to change the way we see

Biotech is a high risk, high cost, high reward world. It's one that Mag Optics, a London-based startup founded by a Syrian...

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