Benin has just joined Rwanda, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal by hosting the Cotonou Policy Hackathon on Tuesday 12 March 2019. i4Policy is a pan-African organisation that brings together more than sixty (60) innovation hubs through Policy Hackathons, working actively to improve public innovation policies in collaboration with public decision-makers in order to accelerate innovative entrepreneurship and youth employability. The aim of the initiative is to analyse and propose appropriate responses to the challenge of improving the regulatory framework in which innovative businesses, start-ups and very small enterprises operate in Benin. This approach will not only address the factors that prevent start-ups from growing, but also bring them together in order to change people’s living conditions.
All news“When it comes to our innovative young companies and our start-ups, what counts is the value of our commitment to this Policy Hackathon, not the numbers,” said Ms Aurelie I. Adam Soule ZOUMAROU, Minister of Digital Economy and Communication, who was invited to the launch of the Cotonou Policy Hackathon. It was an opportunity for her to reaffirm the Government’s support for improving the digital ecosystem through the launch of the Cotonou Policy Hackathon.Several other partners are working towards the success of this event: the World Bank Africa Region, the Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung foundation, Initiative For Africa (IFA) and the main partner hubs Blolab Cotonou, Btech Space, EtriLabs, Solidar'it, Uacstartupvalley and Waxangari labs.