This is a nice initiative that Nokia is spearheading with Capgemini and The World Bank to explore and foster the innovation eco-system in Africa. Considering the expertise on this list in using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve the lives of underserved populations in low-income regions I thought it might be interesting. It's called the Open Innovation Africa Summit and it's happening the week of November 29th in Nairobi, Kenya! The summit aims to promote creation of new innovation services and collaboration models, which ensure continuous alignment between different players of the innovation ecosystem as well as to embed end-user driven co-creation and open innovation as critical elements to African innovation systems. They've launched a great ideation platform as part of it that revolves around the four main streams for the event: Ecosystem for Innovation Emerging Market Business Models Mobile Services Revolution Human Capital - Education for All You can check out the website and find more information here: www.innovateafrique.com We're launching official communication about the event next week but wanted to get in touch earlier to inform this list about this extraordinary initiative and to get your help providing insights and ideas (there are also 8 seats dedicated to the top contributors and people here could for sure contribute greatly at the event itself, so thought I'd give you a heads up :) Regards -- http://ianlawrence.info