Accessible inclusive education ICT for refugees with disabilities.
Re-think the design of existing ICT4Disability solutions to make them 10x cheaper and suitable for refugee and rural contexts.
Profile
I am passionate about: Education and ICT for Disabilities in Developing Markets
A little known fact about me is: We started Sterio.me during a 5 day hackathon on a bus (yes, a driving tour bus) from Harare in Zimbabwe to Cape Town in South Africa - quite the adventure, called Startupbus Africa at the time - more here: www.bbc.com/news/business-25139586 :)
Show my name on the attendees list for events I am attending: Yes
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/christopherpruijsen
Co-founder and CEO
Sterio.me
Currently I'm working on mobile learning and ICT for Disabilities (Hardware) for emerging markets. Previously I co-founded ampion.org and served as the President of the Oxford Entrepreneurs at the University of Oxford.
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Re-think the design of existing ICT4Disability solutions to make them 10x cheaper and suitable for refugee and rural contexts.
Congrats on the admission to the program Andre!
This is certainly exciting, happy to introduce you to the people at THNK as well if you'd like to take this idea further and are stopping by Amsterdam. Other programmes worth looking at: watsonuniversity.org/about and hive.org are focused on leadership, education for entrepreneurs etc, albeit at different stages. Watson University would be more applicable to what you have in mind, or http://www.experienceeducate.org/ which was started in Uganda by Eric, the founder of Watson, to bring entrepreneurship education into schools :)
Happy to connect you with the AMPION team who organize hackathons and a social venture incubator across 15 countries in Africa currently (operating since 2013). The West Africa bus goes through Ghana each year as well so in lieu of joining the bus you'll be able to meet everyone in Accra then. I feel there could be some interesting collaboration opportunities.
Have you also looked into the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program? http://tonyelumelufoundation.org/teep/ their cycle is closed this year but I encourage you to talk with them and maybe join next year, for the funding, mentorship, curriculum and network.
Christopher commented on Build Refugee Entrepreneurial ecosystem