Lebanon Lebanon’s Pinpay, ready for the big time In 2013 mobile bill payment platform Pinpay had to make a decision: shut up shop or start again from scratch. They went with the latter.... Lucy Knight • 23 June, 2016 Lebanon Central Bank Regulations Bankmed
Syria Syrians seek refuge in tech For a while, it seemed that the Syrians were running out of options. For the fourth year in a row since 2012, the UN reported a steep... Maysaa Ajjan • 22 June, 2016 community jameel MIT Media Lab syria
Maghreb For a night, Maghreb joined forces to solve their social problems What if Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia joined forces to solve their social problems? It’s a germ of an idea that a small number of... Yassine Bakir • 22 June, 2016 algerian startup initiative espace bidaya Lab'Ess
Palestine Scarcity fuels Gaza hardware invention boom Following the successful Bold Knot crowdfunding campaign* in 2015, Gazan entrepreneurs have started pursuing their own hardware... Rafat Abushaban • 22 June, 2016 Sketch Engineering The Explorer Robot Taawon
Egypt Egypt's Smart Care secures $1.2M from major foreign donor A major foreign donor has invested $1.2 million in Smart Care Medical Services, a digital healthcare management startup. The deal,... Rachel Williamson • 21 June, 2016
Regional How can startups build successful collaborations with corporations? This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. Collaborative entrepreneurship initiatives are trending and an... Jana Kassem • 21 June, 2016 Coentrepreneurship Expo 2020 Dubai CE
Global The Facebook factor: hacking social media for growth [Wamda TV] A business today with no social media presence is, frankly, an anomaly. Continuously, surveys show that the use of social media as a... Lucy Knight • 21 June, 2016 Step2016 Advertising Facebook
Regional What I know about investing in robotics: Jose Berengueres To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in... Archana Menon • 20 June, 2016 Adasi pal robotics robotics
U.A.E Fare share: Uber and Careem set pace and purpose for MENA’s sharing economy Innovation and regulation can often have a paradoxical relationship. Modern tech history has consistently highlighted the tug of war... Vanessa Khalil • 20 June, 2016 RTA Regulations careem
Egypt Egyptian selfie drone wins $26K Swiss investment Egyptian drone startup Drofie has attracted the attention of the Swiss, securing a 25,000 Swiss francs (US$26,000) investment and a spell... Rachel Williamson • 19 June, 2016 Fame monster Latvia Kickstart Accelerator
Regional How to prepare for post-oil MENA [Wamda TV] This video was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. “We need to figure out what are the things here [in the MENA... Berthe El Aya • 19 June, 2016 Keynote Joichi Ito CE Summit
Egypt Rubber a hot commodity for Egypt startup Retyres Driving Cairo’s ring road or through one of its many poorer outskirts, one often encounters the distinct smell of burned rubber:... Eduard Cousin • 19 June, 2016 tyres rubber Retyres
Regional Community Jameel and Wamda host MIT Media Lab Dubai Workshop #MLDubai Cities are rising at a fast pace. The MENA region has seen this with Dubai, and shortly after, Masdar City. In the meantime,... Wamda • 18 June, 2016 Workshop MIT Media Lab Dubai
Regional Applications open for Start IT with Etisalat Start IT with Etisalat are on the lookout for this year’s batch of aspiring Egyptian entrepreneurs. The initiative,... Wamda • 16 June, 2016 etisalat IoT start it
Lebanon AltCity's second fintech meetup – Introduction to P2P lending AltCity is hosting its second fintech meetup, an “introduction to peer-to-peer (P2P) lending.” Held at their new offices on... Wamda • 16 June, 2016 cintech Altcity Workshop
Regional HiiL Innovating Justice: call for applications Justice through technology is their alma mater. HiiL is an initiative constantly seeking ways to implement new innovations and technologies... Wamda • 16 June, 2016 conflict resolution Innovating Justice Hiil