Nairobi : un salon à l'attaque du low-tech

[...] the objective [of DEMO] is for the 40 companies presenting at the event to walk away with long-term partnerships.

"The initiative is not DEMO," Thomas Debass (director of the Office of Global Partnerships at the U.S. State Department) says : "The initiative is about how you enhance Africa's budding innovation and startup ecosystem, and how you bring resources and tools and know-how to make sure that Africa organically can develop its own ecosystem on the ground."

The DEMO conference is held bi-annually in Santa Clara, Calif., and earlier this month wrapped up its 22nd year. Being in Santa Clara, the event is strategically located in the heart of Silicon Valley, and has branched out into other burgeoning innovation hubs like China, Singapore, and Brazil. Location is an important decision for conferences that carry the DEMO brand, but Debass says recent developments in Nairobi made it an easy one.

"There are 54 countries in Africa. You could have done it anywhere," he says. "But we chose Kenya because it had the ecosystem." (...)

[Lire l'intégralité de l'article de Colin Neagle publié sur le site Web PC Advisor]

[Le site Web de DEMO Africa]