The biggest problem in Africa is inter-trading and access to markets by very innovative but traditionally made products that are made right at the heart of the very barely infrastructured rural areas. These areas must be accessed by customers. But then governments are not accelerating that access process and the slow implementation of regional free trade agreements, hampered by politics of realistic mistrust, is not helping. Something has to be done. Olives Media, now rebranding to Impact Network (Impactnet) Africa is now obsessed with using media and technology to encourage entrepreneurship and solve mega public policy challenges. The major challenge in particular being access to rural markets in countries that still have difficulty implementing free trade agreements and easy export and import between themselves. We have a concept called Afristalls that will achieve all this. But we are applying for this funding for one simple major challenge. That challenge is creating Impact Lab, a technology and investment supported entrepreneurship environment where such platforms like Afristalls can be developed to eventually change the way Sub Saharan African countries do business. Impact Lab will develop Afristalls and many other great ideas. Now we need funding for Impact Lab.
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