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Musings on tech and more from a cafe in the Middle East
Almost a decade ago I worked on what, at the time, was called an eBusiness Strategy for a telecommunications company in the GCC, and one of the our most exciting findings was the potential the web had on integrating women into the workforce in some of the more conservative societies. Our findings, while interesting, never did match the reality on the ground. That's not to say that there aren't female entrepreneurs in the region. In fact a member of the founding team at Bayt, one of the most successful start-ups...
Last week we interview Reza Sadeha, the found of I'm Halal. Today, we caught up wtih Kareem Arafat, the CEO of WatWet, essentially an Arabic Twitter! I like it, and I certainly like the fact that you can access the service through SMS from several countries in the Middle East. Enjoy! TheNextWeb (TNW): What inspired you to create Watwet when twitter seems to be making major inroads in the region? Kareem Arafat (KA): We actually started working on Watwet before the Twitter hype. The founding team of our mother...
A pretty good presentation by Craig Hepburn, Director of Social Media Strategy at Open Text. Nothing ground breaking, it's more of a beginners guide to social media. Enjoy!
This has remained one of my favorite sources of information on the readiness of the Middle East to embrace a start-up culture. It provides some wonderful insight that can be summarised as: we have the money in this region, but not the engineers/ scientists. Enjoy. http://www.scribd.com/doc/13783392/Global-Information-Technology-Report-20082009
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