Tag: innovation

ICTP 154: Leverage technology to achieve zero hunger, with Bevon Chadel Charles, of Akata Farms

ICTP 154: Leverage technology to achieve zero hunger, with Bevon Chadel Charles, of Akata Farms

Posted by | 12 May 2021 |

In our fifth instalment on social enterprises that are leveraging ICT, we speak with the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Akata Farms in Grenada, Bevon Chadel Charles. During the course of the conversation, Bevon discusses: the ways in which Akata Farms it is leveraging technology; how and why Akata farms is a social enterprise; and the challenges of being a tech social enterprise in the agriculture sector.

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ICTP 142: Banj, changing the story of Haiti’s tech start-up space, with Marc Alain Boucicault

ICTP 142: Banj, changing the story of Haiti’s tech start-up space, with Marc Alain Boucicault

Posted by | 17 Feb 2021 |

Banj, a co-working space and Google powered accelerator in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is the second tech-based business we are focussing on in our series on technology-based social enterprises. We chat with company Founder, Marc Alain Boucicault, about: what drove him to set up Banj; the social impact Banj is having in Haiti; the big dreams he has for Banj and for Haiti; and the advice you would give tech start-ups that also want to be social impact-focussed.

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