Emerging Tech: 9 International Startup Hubs to Watch | Slideshow. Dublin, Ireland image credit: Luxe Travel Logitech, Rovio and Skype -- these three companies produce products as mainstream as keyboards, services as cutting edge as video chatting, and games as addictive as Angry Birds. While each is different, they all began as startups outside the U.S. and experienced the kind of success that propelled their brands across borders worldwide. All over the globe, tech entrepreneurs are striving for similar results.
But where are they starting up? Beyond London and Tel Aviv, many are gravitating to some unlikely locations to try to realize their business dreams. Here's a look at nine international tech startup hubs that might be under your radar. Image credit: INS Fleeing large metro areas like London and Paris, app developers and internet entrepreneurs aplenty have found a home in the Netherlands, attracted by lower taxes and living costs, and a creative lifestyle that fosters open innovation. image credit: Nature image credit: Jason Pitcher. Untitled. The Business Bridge Initiative. Smartphone use in Rural India. Mobile and smartphone use in urban and rural India Jerry Watkins a *, Kathi R.
Kitner b and Dina Mehta c School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia; Intel Labs, Portland, OR, USA; Convo Ltd, Mumbai, India Between 32 and 74 million smartphones are forecast in the Indian market by2015.This article looks more closely into this phenomenon by comparing two studiesconducted at urban and rural sites in India. Background For those seeking evidence of a shift in social and cultural behaviours facilitated by mobiletechnologies, consider this estimate: by 2015, four major regions (sub-Saharan Africa,Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East) and 40 countries will have more peoplewith mobile network access than with access to electricity at home.
ISSN 1030-4312 print/ISSN 1469-3666 online q *Corresponding author. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Micro-entrepreneurs could change world. While the world routinely extols people like Richard Branson and Bill Gates, there is a much larger world of entrepreneurship to be found in emerging markets. Rajesh Chandy and Om Narasimhan explain how micro-entrepreneurs may be a major factor in the return of a robust global economy. Share this on: Many in the West are used to hearing scholars, practitioners and policy makers extolling the virtues and benefits of entrepreneurship. A listing of the world’s top hotspots for entrepreneurship therefore comes, quite often, as a surprise. Walk into any food market in a developing country, and amid the noise, amid the crowds, and amid all the energetic activity and apparent chaos, one glimpses capitalism in its most unvarnished form.
Of course, micro-entrepreneurship in emerging markets is not restricted to food markets alone. Eking out a living Entrepreneurs in low-income countries are mostly small, and they often operate informally. Obstacles to growth They lack basic business skills. Mobile Banking. Food Distribution in Horn of Africa Goes High Tech. Cathy Herholdt, World Concern 206-546-7374 (office) 425-205-7412 (cell)cathyh@worldconcern.org October 2, 2012 (SEATTLE) – World Concern’s voucher system for distributing food in the Horn of Africa crisis is about to go high tech. The Seattle-based humanitarian organization is piloting a new mobile app in the drought-stricken region, aiming to streamline the process of tracking food distributed to hungry families and payment to local merchants. The app was developed by Seattle start up ScanMyList, whose founder, Scott Dyer, developed a mobile application to help retail businesses track inventory.
When Dyer saw one of World Concern’s vouchers, he realized the same system could help the humanitarian organization reach people during a disaster more efficiently and track aid more accurately. The system tracks beneficiaries and the food they receive via bar codes that are scanned into a mobile phone. “Not many people can say they’ve birthed an idea and seen it to fruition,” said Dyer.