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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia hosts GE’s first Predix-powered hackathon in the region

General Electric (GE) hosted its first Industrial Internet of Things hackathon, powered by Predix, using big data to improve healthcare in...

MEMakersGE Predix hackathon

U.A.E

Intelak Incubator startups are one step closer to reality

Earlier this month, the four winning teams from Intelak, which means ‘take off’ in Arabic, successfully pitched to investors,...

Intelak MEMakersGE

Turkey

Smart waste management, one bin at a time

Creating waste is what humans seem to do best, and we’re getting better at it. By 2025 it is predicted that 4.3 billion city...

Evreka smart waste management Smart Cities

Egypt

Did this Egyptian company predict the US election?

Donald Trump’s election to the US presidency was a shock for many, but not so much for those who were willing and able to read the...

big data TweetElect MEMakersGE

Palestine

Gaza’s Swift Braille helps the blind use smartphones

Swift Braille is a smartphone app that aims to help visually impaired and blind people communicate with others in writing. Worldwide...

SwiftBraille blindness Gaza

Egypt

Fixing Egypt’s waste crisis one handbag at a time

An Egyptian startup in Aswan is turning palm tree waste into handmade products, and is not only providing jobs but helping to revive...

Napata palm waste waste management

Egypt

Real-time translation for Europe bound refugees and migrants [Wamda TV]

Refugees and migrants from eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia have been making their way to European Union countries for many years,...

ET Call refugees Egypt

Regional

GE launches MENA corporate collaboration campaign

GE has today launched the first of a series of entrepreneurship videos for their GE Digital Industrial MENA campaign, a company initiative...

MEMakersGE wamdatv Corporate entrepreneurship

U.A.E

Aviation industry startups take off at Intelak incubator in Dubai

After an intense day of pitching, four startups with aviation industry-centric business ideas got to walk away with 50,000 Emirati dirhams...

Intelak aviation EMIRATES

Jordan

300 days of sunlight a year: a look at Jordan's solar sector

Jordan’s latest solar energy deal with a UAE company marks the largest power plant to be built on Jordanian soil. The deal, along...

solar energy Jordan Solar panels

Morocco

What did Morroco gain with COP22?

A lot was at stake for Morocco with the opening of the 22nd COP (Conference Of Parties) UN Climate Change Conference, which began at the...

COP22 morocco MEMakersGE

Global

What I know about airtech: Paul Papadimitriou

Paul Papadimitriou is a self-described technologist but we weren’t interested in that, we wanted his thoughts on flying...

aviation MEMakersGE airtech

Lebanon

App aiding facial paralysis wins 10K at BDL Accelerate hackathon

An app that aids patients with facial paralysis won the $10,000 prize at Lebanon’s BDL Accelerate conference health hackathon on...

healthtech Health hackathon BDL Accelerate

Regional

Cleantech in MENA: where are we at? [Infographic]

In less than ten years, MENA’s waste production will outpace comparable economies in South Asia and Africa. Some entrepreneurs...

MEMakersGE WRL Cleantech

Egypt

Nawart's cleantech startups a silver lining for Egypt's transition

Egypt may have effectively killed off any interest in industrial scale solar, but a group of people passionate about the cause believe...

MEMakersGE Cleantech Nawart

U.A.E

China calls for Dubai 100 health tech backer

With its fast growing healthcare market and rapidly ageing population, China is proving to be a match for Dubai-based Dubai 100. The...

Dubai 100 china Healthcare

Egypt

Reclaiming Egypt’s rooftops: Al Bustani reaps urban farm profits

In 2014, Housam Abul-Fotouh was in the Sinai desert building 72,000 square metres of greenhouses. He and cofounder Mohamed Ibrahim had...

Al Bustani Egypt agritech

Global

What I know about privacy and AI: Rand Hindi

The future holds so many innovations to make our lives easier, but we are often told that it will come at a price. We’ll need to...

privacy AI Snips

Global

Hikma Ventures makes second US investment

Hikma Ventures made their second investment announcement in just over a month with their contribution to a $21.5 million series C round of...

Hikma Ventures Hikma Pharmaceutical Investment

Regional

How MENA countries rank in terms of cleantech startups [Video]

By 2030, Saudi Arabia will have more renewable energy capacity than any other country in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This...

Cleantech MEMakersGE Green Energy

U.A.E

3D medical printing finds its footing in Dubai’s future

Launched in October 2015, Medativ is a Dubai-based 3D anatomical model printing company. The company name is a play on its products...

MEMakersGE Healthcare 3d printing

U.A.E

A step in the ecotourism direction

This year Dubai and Abu Dhabi topped the list of most sustainable cities in MENA. On the global ranking list, however,...

MEMakersGE uae eco resort group

Global

Braci capitalizes on Europe’s growing hard of hearing market

Anwar Al Mojarkesh has built up a long list of inventions that he sought to one day realise. One was a “dancing pillow” that...

Braci sound alert MEMakersGE

Regional

Cleantech startups in MENA face many challenges but remain resilient [Report]

MENA is experiencing some of the most daunting environmental challenges on earth. Energy and water scarcity coupled with an...

Cleantech MEMakersGE Report

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