B-Space

15/08/2018

25/07/2018

Dear Entrepreneur
Are you an effective, efficient and sustainable social entrepreneur, The Kajjansi Junction Programme would like to invite you to save the date 21st August 2018 to showcase your business in the areas of water purification systems, renewable energy, food delivery, plastic recycling, organic waste management, environmental conservation and healthy living. Please find details are in the flyer.

10/10/2017

The Innovation Village Kampala is one of the investors who will be at this years PAINT event starting tomorrow. Other investors include: Stanbic Bank - Uganda, Capital Investors,Pride Microfinance, Open Capital Advisors, Oxfam in Uganda, Iungo and XSML an investment fund manager operating in frontier markets in Central and East Africa. PAINT aims to accelerate agribusiness in Uganda by matching agribusinesses and investors for potential investment opportunities. Agwang Aidah Agri-ProFocus Uganda Agri-Hub

04/10/2017

The Trade, Match making and networking 2017 event under the PAINT initiative is back, bigger and better. The event will take place next week on 11th & 12th October. Watch this space as we profile this year's participants investors and agribusinesses included. with Agri-ProFocus Uganda Agri-Hub Agwang Aidah Sylvia Natukunda

18/08/2017

In July, BSpace coordinated a bootcamp for ENVenture's CBOs . For the full story,click on the link below

10/08/2017

Yunus Social Business intends to run their next investment readiness program for 2017 and are calling for applications.Application is online via the link below:

07/07/2017

ENVenture is a mentoring program, designed to empower community based organizations that already exist in rural areas and turn them into entrepreneurs. By partnering with community based organizations (CBOs) in rural communities, entrepreneurial business solutions are created to bring solar lights, improved cook stoves, water filters, and energy-saving briquettes to communities that do not have access to these life-saving technologies.
ENVenture together with BSpace will be hosting a two days training Bootcamp 12th and 13th of July next week at Resilient Africa Network Kololo.

Aims of the bootcamp are two; One is to Appreciate the concept of running a business or profit making venture and two is learning about clean energy

ENVenture creates and expands sustainable goods ventures in developing countries in order to increase access to low cost, low carbon technologies that advance the health and sanitation of current living standards while improving the environment. creates new income-generating opportunities, which ultimately benefits local people. Participating SGVs will retail a variety of high quality products approved by ENVenture for distribution, including solar lights, non-electric water filters, improved cook stoves, and energy-saving briquettes.

https://www.enventureenterprises.org/

ENVenture finances and trains Community Based Organizations to launch rural clean energy enterprises in Uganda.

27/06/2017

Well done to ENVenture - creating sustainable enterprises

We love when the new energy businesses we seed in rural Uganda go onto receiving external support! Congratulations to Mukhobeh Moses Khaukha and Hands of Action Uganda for being an IEEE Smart Village ambassador! He is currently attending a sponsored meeting in Accra, Ghana with other community leaders across Africa!

21/06/2017

Next month together with ENVenture - creating sustainable enterprises and 20 energy companies, we will be jointly facilitating a 2 day boot camp.

Come say hello to the ENVenture team at our new office space at The Innovation Village Kampala! We are excited to be in a hub of co-innovators and start-ups changing the landscape for Uganda.

15/06/2017

BSpace is a member of NUTIP (Netherlands Uganda Trade and Investment Platform) and is currently being represented at the ongoing AGM and B2B networking event going on right now at the DFCU towers.

02/05/2017

UNDP is looking for strong qualified candidates that could submit proposals to bid for hosting and managing the online portal YAS! – the Africa Youth Entrepreneurship ( especially for women) gateway digital resource.

Please see the direct link to this exciting new UNDP innovation challenge grant award opportunity in the link below and apply to the email address indicated:

If implemented innovatively, this online portal can be at the very centre of facilitating the much-needed contribution by African youth towards SDG attainment – but UNDP does not have the financial resources or the expertise to directly implement this portal, ensuring that it is sustainable and rema...

27/04/2017

CTA Releases a New Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Working to Modernize Agriculture Through ICTs
A guidebook designed for young people interested in developing e-agriculture businesses in African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries is launched today. Published by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), An ICT Agripreneurship Guide – A Path to Success for Young ACP Entrepreneurs seeks to help young entrepreneurs to tap in to the massive scope offered by information and communication technologies (ICTs) for driving ACP economies, especially in the agribusiness sector. The handbook is being unveiled at the African Youth Agripreneurs Forum, to be held in Ibadan, Nigeria from April 25-26.
Taking a hands-on approach, the guide provides a number of case studies, as well as practical advice from young ACP entrepreneurs interviewed for the publication. It also presents common mistakes and ways to avoid them, and recommendations on how to scale up successful cases. A selection of business and product development tools and a comprehensive references section provide material for further inquiry.
Download a copy from the link below:
https://publications.cta.int/en/publications/publication/1984/

This Handbook provides a step-by-step roadmap designed to equip aspiring ICT entrepreneurs, with the information and knowledge they need to start an ICT-based business in the agricultural sector, outlining key opportunities and challenges that will be encountered along the way. Using real-life examp...