Building a Globally Competitive Tech Hub

Sebekedi Motlhabane (Mo) Koloi is Greenfield Investment Portfolio Manager for Technology at Wesgro. In episode 4 of the 10 episode Wesgro Series on Future Cities Africa we discuss: Building a Globally Competitive Tech Hub.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with Wesgro

Listen or watch to understand:

• Breakdown of his role at Wesgro.
• Tech ecosystems.
• How the Cape Town / Western Cape tech ecosystem stand up to the rest of the world.
• Competition between different areas (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Saldanha, etc.) within the Western Cape.
• Why competition between different areas in the Western Cape is good and how it enables them to draw even more robust value propositions for investors.
• What exactly draws Tech investors to the Western Cape.
• The vital ingredients for the development of a competitive tech ecosystem.
• Why it is important, from a government and from an economic growth point of view, to support the development of a competitive tech industry.
• Levers the government have to support the development of a competitive tech industry both at a provincial and national level.
• Companies and Institutions mentioned; Jumu, Yoco, Luno, WhereIsMyTransport, GetSmarter, Amazon Web Services, University of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, University of Stellenbosch, Cape IT Initiative, Silicon Cape, Stellenbosch Network).

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