Catalysing scalable enterprises in emerging markets

Dwesa Village Connection Business Modelling Feasibility Analysis

November 19th, 2008 | posted by toni

Interested in analysing the financial feasibility or defining the business model of your technology solution targeting underserved communities?

Ungana-Afrika has released a feasibility analysis of a Village Connection trial that can be used as an example case by others when defining and analysing ICT based business models in base-of-the-pyramid markets.

Strategies for the Adoption of Mobile Technologies

November 26th, 2008 | posted by admin

Mobile

The main message of this white paper is that every organisation and company active in the development sector should be interested in the potential of mobiles and should take a serious look at how their work would benefit from these technologies. This message is based on exposure to various projects that organisations are already implementing, combined with several years of experience with ICT capacity building within the development sector.

Village Operator Feasibility Framework released under Creative Commons licence

September 1st, 2010 | posted by rudi

mobile phone 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.

The 10th Incubation Workshop in Southern Africa

September 27th, 2010 | posted by tshepo

For the last six years Ungana-Afrika has been going from country to country creating awareness of models and strategies that can be applied to provide ICT support services for under-served communities, with a particular focus on non-profit organisations and small to medium sized enterprises.

Enterprise Modelling Support in Zambia and Zimbabwe

September 27th, 2010 | posted by tshepo

Greater impact can be made on social challenges if organisations working towards addressing community needs are able to sustain their operations and programmes. Sustainability requires an entrepreneurial approach with an attitude that says “for us to continue doing GOOD we must live WELL”, that means effectively delivering your mission while generating revenue that keeps you afloat.

South African Regional Mobile Applications Laboratory

September 28th, 2010 | posted by rudi

mobile phone 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.

Business Planning Workshop

January 10th, 2011 | posted by tshepo

Business Planning Workshop 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.

Exciting days for Ungana-Afrika's Participatory Entrepreneurship Development project

January 20th, 2011 | posted by marjolein

Coming Saturday (22 January 2011) Ungana-Afrika's Participatory Entrepreneurship Development (PED) project kicks off with its first workshop. In this project Ungana-Afrika assists people who live in disadvantaged communities, but who have plenty of entrepreneurial aspiration and energy, in performing local participatory ICT (Information and Communication Technology) needs assessment, and in the development of business ideas based on identified community needs.