IBM in Africa

Which areas of innovation hold the best promise for enabling economic development in Africa?

IBM has opened ThinkPlace, a brainstorming and idea generation tool, to the world. This first-ever public ThinkPlace Challenge is a three-week on-line event designed to foster global collaboration on innovations that can fuel economic growth and improve the standard of living on the African continent. The ideas developed in this challenge will immediately shape the agenda for the IBM Global Innovation Outlook/Africa sessions with world thought leaders as well as inform IBM's World Development Initiative, a new long-term effort to identify commercial opportunities addressing the needs of the vast population currently living on less than $5 a day. And certainly you can use ThinkPlace to get feedback on your own ideas and find others interested in helping you develop them.

I'd like to invite you to participate in this discussion. Here is the URL to join the Thinkplace Challenge to contribute your best thinking as well as respond to other participants:

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Once you get to this site, click on either "Answer this challenge" or "View all ideas" to connect to the registration page that then allows you to participate.

Best regards,

Kwasi

PS. Please feel free to forward this email to your network of contacts who have experience, expertise, and/or interest in economic development.

IBM Initiatives for Africa

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