by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) Olafunbi Falayi, Co-Founder, Passion Incubator talks about:
- the idea of a technology accelerator for the non-technical
- six of the start-ups at Passion (including tailoring, talking books, a traffic app, local advertising, a social network for health enquiries and online cake ordering)
- the barriers to entry
- and future plans.
Russell Southwood is the founder of Balancing Act and the web TV channel Smart Monkey TV, and has been an analyst in telecoms, internet and broadcast in Africa for the last 14 years. Smart Monkey TV aims to capture the energy at the crossroads between African culture and technology. MarkLives is syndicating content from Smart Monkey TV on a weekly basis for the column “Smart Africa TV”.
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