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How ICT hubs models have impacted on the technology entrepreneurship development

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ICTD '13: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development: Notes - Volume 2

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2517899.2517922

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iHub Research is conducting an on-going research to understand the unique factors that make up ICT Hub models across Africa. The objectives of the research are 2-fold: First to understand the factors that makes up the Hubs model. Secondly, to understand its entrepreneurs and how the hubs have positively impacted on their development be it skills or the growth of their innovations.

So far, iHub has conducted 7 studies of various hubs across Africa and they include: (iHub-Kenya; KLab-Rwanda; MEST-Ghana, BongoHive hub-Zambia, KINU hub-Tanzania; Activspaces-Cameroon and Hive Colab-Uganda. This paper provides an overview of some of the key findings. Lessons learnt, challenges and proposed recommendations.

Thus this paper in subsequent chapters, discusses how these selected hubs have impacted on Social economic development in Africa and various roles that they are playing to meet the aforementioned objectives including their challenges, lessons learnt and recommendations in catalyzing socioeconomic development.

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ICTD '13: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development: Notes - Volume 2

December 2013

214 pages

ISBN:9781450319072

DOI:10.1145/2517899

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Julian May,
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Schmitt DMuyoya C(2020)Influence in Technological Innovation Spaces: A Network Science Approach to Understand Innovation for Sustainability in the Global SouthSustainability10.3390/su1205185812:5(1858)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2020
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