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"Anambra Innovation Week 2024" aims to establish Anambra as the "Silicon Valley of Africa" The five-day event is scheduled for November 25 to 29, 2024, in Awka. The week-long event aims to support the startup ecosystem, incubate promising startups, encourage the commercialisation of research.In an effort to digitise the state’s socioeconomic operations, the government of Anambra State has pledged to collaborate with digital specialists, innovators, legislators, business owners, investors, and scholars from Africa and beyond.
According to the state, in order to accomplish this goal, it intends to hold its first digital event, called “Anambra Innovation Week 2024.” The event’s goal is to establish Anambra as the “Silicon Valley of Africa” by becoming Nigeria’s digital and creative hub and fostering a flourishing ecosystem for startups and digital talent. The event is an initiative of the state government, led by Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, according to Chinwe Okoli, Special Adviser to the Anambra State Governor on Innovation and Business Incubation, who gave a press briefing to launch it in Awka on Tuesday.
The week-long event, which has as its subject “Creating the Future of Africa Now,” aims to support the startup ecosystem, incubate promising startups, encourage the commercialisation of research, and assist businesses in leveraging technology to expand, according to Okoli. Welcome to the Solution Innovation District, which is part of the Anambra State Government’s “Anambra Innovation Week 2024,” she remarked. Making Anambra Nigeria’s digital and creative capital is part of the state governor’s agenda. It is committed to creating a flourishing environment for entrepreneurs, creative companies, and digital talent throughout the state.
The “Anambra Digital Tribe,” the startup environment, promising ventures, research commercialisation, and assisting enterprises in leveraging technology to scale are all part of our purpose. “We have trained over 25,000 youths in various deep technology skills through programs like LevelUp Anambra and Code Anambra, preparing them for jobs in the global market. Many of them land these jobs every day, and our SID Teen Digital Bootcamp develops a new generation of talented teens ready for future global impact.”
“A further initiative to foster an atmosphere that encourages innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable economic growth is the Anambra State Startup Law, which is a domestication of the Nigerian Startup Act.” She claims that in order to meet the goal, the state governor has given infrastructure top priority, laying more than 2,000 kilometres of fibre duct around the state for last-mile internet connectivity and designating a 13.7-hectare plot of land that is now the location of Government House.
The Anambra Innovation Week 2024 is something I am thrilled to announce on behalf of Mr. Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo.
In addition to highlighting our goal of making Anambra the “Silicon Valley of Africa,” it is expected to become a yearly event and a premier venue for exhibiting Nigeria and Africa’s rapidly expanding and dynamic technology and innovation ecosystem.
“We will bring together innovators, politicians, top tech CEOs, industry, entrepreneurs, investors, digital experts, and academics from Africa and beyond during the five-day event, which is scheduled for November 25 to 29, 2024, in Awka. Anambra Innovation Week, which is emphasised by our main competition, Battle4Solutions, places a high priority on growth through audacious ideas, talent, technology, and creation.
“A competition for innovation with a cash prize pool exceeding one hundred million naira.” Nigeria’s top companies are invited to submit ideas for solutions to pressing social issues in a range of fields, including digital health, renewable energy, e-commerce, agritech, fintech, the environment, and education, among others,” she continued.
