Colombia: using technology and innovation to lift people out of poverty
by Nitin Dahad In a country of about 46 million, more than a third of the people in Colombia live below the poverty line. In an interview with The Next…
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Top five cities to startup in Latin America
by Nitin Dahad In March 2011, on my first ever visit to Latin America, I discovered that there was an emerging startup scene in Brazil, in places like Sao Paulo,…
Is ‘Silicon Desert’ the next Silicon Valley?
In watching successful innovation clusters evolve around the world, we’re beginning to see the theory of creating an innovation ecosystem being successfully deployed in practice, with appropriate localization according to…
Indian tech innovation: hardware still poor second to software
by Nitin Dahad I’ve just spent a week in India talking to several hundred people in the electronics system design, manufacturing and components sector at two annual conferences for India:…
The entrepreneurship debate moves beyond the numbers: it’s now about making them count
by Nitin Dahad Go anywhere in the world today, and you’ll see initiatives to create and grow startup companies, and to foster entrepreneurship. From Arizona to Angola, colleges and universities…
How technology will help governments address global grand challenges
By Nitin Dahad Earlier this month some of the world’s tech company leaders convened at a two-day conference in Half Moon Bay, California, to discuss the impact of technology on…
Should governments move as fast as the pace of technology innovation?
Over the last two weeks, the technology sector has seen some major gatherings of the tech sector. This includes, among many others, the Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland, and the…
Spotlight on Arizona: an innovation ecosystem to support economic growth
Sometimes labeled ‘Silicon Desert’, the state of Arizona in the USA has seen a tech sector explosion, with multinational companies increasing their profile in the region, supported by a growing…
Emerging Indian tech parks show how countries and states are creating their own ‘Silicon Valley’ like ecosystems
When I first started working in the technology sector in 1985, the ‘Mecca’ for the electronics industry was Silicon Valley in the USA – if you were a new graduate…
Middle East and Africa: youth are driving its innovation ecosystems
A headline that caught my eye this week was in the Huffington Post, ‘Why a War & Shrinking Economy Can’t Stop Syrian Innovation’, and having just returned from Libya, I…