Tech4Good, an event organized by ITC's Youth Empowerment Project in The Gambia, in partnership with Innovate Gambia as the implementation partner.
What better way to celebrate success within the community than to share and connect the parties involved? Recently, we had a great deal of success with the development community solving challenges by implementing solutions leveraging local tech companies within the ecosystem. For example, UNDP partnered with Gisqo to launch MyLumo, a commodities exchange platform that helps farmers reach customers more efficiently, through the JSF programme, UNCDF partnered with InSIST Global to develop and scale up Afrijula which is a business management and accounting platform, aimed at helping young entrepreneurs manage their businesses efficiently and gain access to finance, and finally, ITC partnered with Assutech to develop the yep.gm and tekifii.gm public facing websites.
Tech4Good aims to bring together the development community and startups in the tech ecosystem through a Reverse Pitching method. The event will be based on the demands of the development community, where development partners will seek to partner with local tech startups and companies to address their needs.
Through this event, we expect:
1. An opportunity to identify solutions for challenges within the development community
2. Opportunity to encourage innovation in The Gambia tech startup ecosystem
3. Create a bridge between local Gambian startups and potential business partners from the development community
4. Encourage the use of local content within international organizations
5. Showcase Gambia based technology companies
