Mainstreaming digital ecosystems for impact (firestarter chat)

With an estimated over 300 million start-ups located in various clusters around the world, few unicorns exist, and most are concentrated in a few countries. The search for unicorns —and creating the next Silicon Valley— has been elusive, especially in the Global South.

With a widening digital divide, improving entrepreneurs’ odds and mainstreaming entrepreneurship has risen worldwide as a priority for policy-makers, community developers and countries.

This session will provide insight on mainstreaming digital ecosystems and share practical example of success stories in nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship to create remarkable environment for startups and scale-up of innovation.

Key questions

• What are the main problems of digital ecosystems in addressing national ambitions?
• How can we increase the success rates of entrepreneurship driven innovation in an ecosystem?
• What will it take to mainstream inclusive ecosystems?