The legacy lives on. Learn about the highlights of our journey through the AfriConEU project and the lasting impact made on project beneficiaries as well as our partners.
Impact Monitoring, Evaluation
and Learning – 3 Takeaways for Innovators
This blog highlights Stav and Juliet’s valuable insights from real-life projects and programs they have designed, monitored and evaluated over the course of their extensive careers.
Impact Investing and
Subsidized Finance – 3 Key Takeaways
Alforde takes digital innovators through how they can create meaningful change while pursuing social impact and financial success.
How African DIHs catalyse innovation towards the SDGS
This paper explores the role of DIHs in the development of African digital ecosystems, their direct contribution to the SDGs, and how the work of DIHs can be strengthened to drive sustainable development.
African Digital Ecosystems Snapshots
In this report, we assess the landscape of the Digital Innovation ecosystems in four African countries namely: Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Our analysis focuses on six areas: markets, policy, finance, culture, infrastructure and human capital.
Challenges and opportunities for strengthening African DIHs
We foreground the roles African DIHs in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda play in innovation and development. We go on to highlight four challenge areas that limit their impact and provide recommendations for better supporting them.
Digital Marketing
in the Age of AI – 3 Key Takeaways
Francine takes participants through this changing digital marketing landscape and how to become an effective player.
Valuations of Projects
Financial Management and Projections – 3 Key Takeaways
Kenneth discusses the methods for venture valuation and how financial management and projections supports valuations.
Alternative Funding Sources
for Digital Innovation: Key Takeaways
Grants, incubators, accelerators, challenges, competitions, crowdfunding and revenue-based funding; which of these suit your business?
Phases of Investment:
3 Tips on Investments, Investors and the Process
Michelle introduced the types of investment, core phases of traditional investment, and some key aspects of the investment process.
Building Gender-Inclusive Ecosystems – 3 Key Takeaways
for DIH Leaders
Stav and Janat discuss how systems thinking and woman-centered design can address gender barriers facing women in entrepreneurship.
Collaborate to Innovate:
3 Tips for Innovating with People in Mind
Innovation is not always about creating wholly new ideas from scratch. It is also about adding value to existing ideas having people in mind.
Developing Durable
Funding Sources – Three tips for DIHs
Funding remains a major challenge in the growth and sustainability of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs).
Building gender-inclusive ecosystems
Gender inclusion in the technology and digital innovation ecosystem remains a challenge globally. Women have less access to digital technologies and are underrepresented in ICT jobs and top management.
Balancing sustainability and Impact – Three tips for African DIHs
Digital Innovation is playing an essential role in supporting sustainable, local solutions to social and economic challenges in Africa.
African DIHs: Local context and needs analysis
This research examined the challenges faced by local Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) and identified opportunities for strengthening the innovation ecosystems in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.
AfriConEU Vidcast Series – Gender Inclusion in Digital Innovation
Episode #1 of the AfriConEU Vidcast Series featuring Eunice Baguma Ball from ATBN discussing “Gender Inclusion in Digital Innovation.”
Programme Design
We use human-centred design to develop programmes to enable innovative solutions that create sustainable impact in Africa.
Stakeholder Engagement
We create communities and spaces to facilitate collaboration between local and global stakeholders.
Research & Knowledge
We facilitate research to advance knowledge through tech for sustainable development in Africa.
UK-Africa Hub
An Innovate UK funded project aimed at designing a hub to connect UK expertise and innovation with the startup ecosystem in Africa.
Catalysing Local Innovation Ecosystems in Africa
We investigated the challenges faced by the tech sectors in Kenya and Ghana as well as explored opportunities for investment and collaboration with the UK.
Fostering Europe-Africa cooperation
ATBN in partnership with AfriConEU explored the challenges and opportunities for fostering European and African digital innovation cooperation.
Early Stage Investment in Africa’s Tech Sector
ATBN partnered with Frontier Economics to conduct a study exploring the challenges that early stage African tech startups faced in accessing international investment.
HerFutureAfrica
Our social entrepreneurship programme that empowers young African women to launch digital-enabled businesses that improve the lives of women and girls.
Founding Women
Published by ATBN, Founding Women is a book which shares the inspiring entrepreneurship stories of 20 African women building businesses in technology.
Coalition for Digital Equality
CODE is a network connecting local and global stakeholders to collaborate in addressing the digital gender divide and drive sustainable economic growth in Africa.
Key Takeaways – Building Resilient Digital Economies, Post-COVID (Tanzania)
Hosted by ATBN, this roundtable convened digital actors in Tanzania to discuss opportunities and challenges for the country’s digital sector post-COVID.
Impact Investors Should Focus on the Startup Ecosystem
for SSA Tech’s Progress
Three recommendations on how impact investors can foster more sustainable changes in Sub-Saharan Africa and its tech sectors.
Key Takeaways – Building Resilient Digital Economies, Post-COVID (Ghana)
Hosted by ATBN, this roundtable convened digital actors in Ghana to discuss opportunities and challenges for the country’s digital sector post-COVID.
Key Takeaways – Building Digital Economies, Post-COVID (Nigeria)
Hosted by ATBN, this roundtable convened digital actors in Nigeria to discuss opportunities and challenges for the country’s digital sector post-COVID.
Bridging the Digital Gender Divide: Insights from Ghana and Uganda
As part of the Coalition for Digital Equality, we consulted over 20 digital ecosystem stakeholders in Ghana and Uganda to understand the key drivers of the Digital Gender Divide and co-create solutions .
How impact investors can foster sustainable Sub-Saharan African tech sectors
In this Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) article, we share three recommendations on how impact investors can foster more sustainable changes in Sub-Saharan African tech sectors.