Pierre Omidyar
The Omidyar Network, founded by eBay’s billionaire founder, Pierre Omidyar has awarded a $200,000 grant to fund the Co-Creation Hub, Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space. The hub has also received a $45,000 grant from the Indigo Trust, a unit of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts of the U.K.

According to a press release, the Co-creation Hub is a “non-profit, social enterprise centered around a shared work space where stakeholders from multiple walks of Nigerian life come together to collaboratively create tech-based solutions that address social challenges facing Nigerian society. It will be Nigeria’s first multi-functional, multi-purpose space dedicated to the creation of social technology ventures.”

The Hub will be a geek heaven of sorts, a place where techies, software developers, mobile and web programmers, government, tech companies, hackers and venture capitalists can converge to collectively create ground breaking mobile, web and software technologies that will solve social and tech-related problems around Africa, create job opportunities, and secure Nigeria’s place in the global league of tech superpowers. The co-creation hub is scheduled to launch operations in August this year.

Founded by tech enthusiasts Bosun Tijani and Femi Longe the hub will accommodate about 50-60 tech start-ups at a time and will provide a plethora of pre-incubation services including, but not limited to: training, mentorship from seasoned professionals in the technology industry and access to local and international venture capitalists. The hub will also serve as a place for stakeholders to convene, develop strategic partnerships, brainstorm on ideas and collaborate through focus groups, meet-ups, hackathons, competitions and talks by seasoned tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

This is not the first time the Omidyar network is supporting the creation of a tech hub in Africa. Last year, the Omidyar network along with Hivos of Netherlands funded the iHub, Kenya’s first tech innovation hub to meet the incubation needs of the country’s ever-growing tech community. iHub, founded by Ushahidi co-founder Erik Hersman, is multi-functional in scope, serving as an open community workspace for numerous techies, a hub for investors and venture capitalists and an incubator for tech entrepreneurs. iHub officially opened to the Kenyan public in March 2010, and already boasts over 4,500 programmers, developers and entrepreneurs in its network.

Several innovation hubs are springing up across Africa. In February 2008, the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) was established in Accra, Ghana. MEST, a non-profit tech incubator, was founded by Jorn Lyseggen, a Norwegian software entrepreneur, and provides training, mentorship, incubation and funding for Ghanaian software developers, providing local jobs in the process. One of the successful startups to emerge from MEST is Leti Games, a mobile game development company which creates arcade and strategy games set in traditional African settings.

http://blogs.forbes.com/mfonobongnsehe/2011/07/20/ebay-billionaire-omidyar-gives-nigerian-tech-incubator-200000/

Nigerian tech-company gets a $245,000 fund.


Two international groups have annonuced a grant of $245,000 for the Co-creation Hub; Nigeria's first open living lab and pre-incubation space. Omidyar Network, funded by the founder of ebay and The Indigo Trust have announced their support and intent to fund the Co-Creation Hub in Lagos, Nigeria with grants worth over N38, 000,000. Omidyar network is a philanthropic investment firm while The Indigo Trust is a unit of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts of the U.K. [b]Omidyar Network will grant up to US$200,000, while The Indigo Trust has provided a grant of US$45,000 to make a total of the $245,000 grant. The Hub; [/b]a non-profit, social enterprise centered around a shared work space where stakeholders from multiple walks of Nigerian life come together to collaboratively create tech-based solutions that address social challenges facing Nigerian society will be Nigeria's first multi-functional, multi-purpose space dedicated to the creation of social technology ventures.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/5734783-146/nigerian_tech-company_gets_a_245000_fund, csp

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So,Reno Omokri aka Wendell Simillin called himself a pastor! Wonders shall never end. I wonder what a serial liar like Reno Omokri preaches to his congregation on Sunday. No wonder most people have no regard for majority of these pastors.

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