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This is the home of Ungana-Afrika: a niche consultancy and non-profit that catalyses scalable enterprises in emerging markets by accelerating the adoption of innovative technologies, business models and services, that promote equality and improve quality of life.
Innovation and SME Support
Learn how our programs and R&D activities are supporting early stage innovation and small technology enabled enterprises. |
Business Modelling and Enterprise Development
Are you looking for experts that understand both the opportunities pioneering technologies offer as well as the challenges that hinder long term sustainability? Our consultancy services range from participatory idea generation and innovative business modelling to the analysis of concept feasibility and different areas of business intelligence. |
Open Knowledge
One of our mandates is to generate and share knowledge openly. Our publications vary from business modelling cases to white papers supporting innovation and scalability of ideas. |
A business plan can serve a guide and communication tool that provides details of how a social enterprise intends to implement its initiative. Starting with an enterprise model can however be an invaluable step to developing a well thought out, practical business plan.
Ungana-Afrika, together with consortium members the Meraka Institute, The Innovation Hub and InnovationLab, has won the bid to host the infoDev Southern African Regional Mobile Applications Laboratory.
Ungana-Afrika and the Meraka Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have released the Village Operator Feasibility Framework under a Creative Commons Licence. The Feasibility Framework presents a methodology for evaluating whether a rural ICT entrepreneur (or Village Operator) can be viable at a given site.