Contador Harrison attends Mobile Brain Bank Africa


Am allergic to public life but this past week couldn't avoid being part of an international event titled:Mobile Africa that happened in Helsinki on Thursday September 30th 2010. The event exceeded all expectations and want to appreciate all those who participated for contributing to the following success especially organisers. Over the course of day there were close to 300 visitors from 24 countries including Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Kenya, Pakistan, Japan, Spain, France, China, Canada, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, India, UK, USA, South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Ghana, Somalia, Norway, Germany, and Luxembourg. Thanks to Twitter, our event hashtag was #mobbafrica which generated up to 20.000 Tweets and as i was writing this note, it was still continuing. Since it was launched in April thus year, the event web page has received over 26.000 visits, 2 new partnership deals were launched and plenty of solution clinic solved 2 real life problems leading to new business, and offered one additional solution. A new student led Africa market research initiative, MECHA, was formed and more than 50 people received a Suntrica SolarStrap charger. Testimonials from the exhibitors and start ups pitching are 100% positive meaning the right people were here,real African businesses, real contacts to mention but a few. A follow-up event agreed to be held in Malta. 

No doubt if you have a success story from the event, please do let the event organisers know. If you enjoyed it like I did, but don't have a specific success case, you can help organisers rebuild it again by posting comment to the event Guestbook.Again, thank you for visiting and bringing the life to the event. Also my warmest appreciation to event sponsors Nokia, Dazide, Enterprise Estonia, Finnpartnership, Finpro, Jalumba, Pajat and Suntrica, speakers and exhibitors. I cannot forget moderators Maja and Madan, judges Tim, Peter and Gian Luca as well as my fellow panelists Ugur Kaner and Gian Luca who teamed up with your truly during the event at Astoria Hall, in Helsinki. The Cameroon Association did a wonderful job with their food, Flabat for ticketing service, KP for the chillingly cool music, and all who made it to the afterparty for a fine closure of the day.As an individual I will continue supporting Mobile Brain Bank projects that are looking for local nodes in all countries for promoting employment through mobile entrepreneurship.See you in Malta folks and hugs to Petra Soldering for the invite to your blogger and wonderful event.

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