{"id":919841,"date":"2022-01-26T19:41:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/mombasa-to-host-long-awaited-innovation-week-forum-in-march\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T19:41:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:41:06","slug":"mombasa-to-host-long-awaited-innovation-week-forum-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/26\/mombasa-to-host-long-awaited-innovation-week-forum-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Mombasa to host long-awaited Innovation Week Forum in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/odwohk4gfkla61f028d5e7ea3.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Aerial view of Mombasa town<\/strong> [File]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Mombasa will host the 3rd edition of Pwani Innovation Week (PIW) to create a culture of innovation.\n<\/p>\n<p>New dates for the event which was put off in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic will now be from March 28 \u2014 March 31, 2022. <\/p>\n<p>The innovation week whose theme is \u201cLeveraging on Covid-19 opportunities to create a better future\u201d will provide an opening for individuals to address challenges and solutions in business and other economic activities.\n<\/p>\n<p>The forum is being organised by the Swahilipot Foundation Hub in collaboration with the Kenya National Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Mombasa County and other partners. It will involve among others training boot camps, networking, women in technology, exhibition Techkids Expo and panel discussions among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInnovation catalyzes the aspiration of individuals, private institutions and governments to achieve developments by generating creative ideas and introducing new products and services that improves the overall quality of life,\u201d said Swahilipot founder, Mahmud Noor.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"JjvoAC8gkg8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pwani innovation week underway in Mombasa with an aim of showing talent in ICT\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JjvoAC8gkg8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mx-auto col-12 row justify-content-between\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6 col-12 row border-right mb-4 p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-9 text-left\">\n<h5 class=\"politic-cat\">\n<b>Why SMEs are slow to adopt tech <\/b><br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<p>SMEs still have more hurdles and bottlenecks to overcome before they can realise the full potential of technology in their businesses.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001435548\/mombasa-to-host-long-awaited-innovation-week-forum-in-march\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerial view of Mombasa town [File] Mombasa will host the 3rd edition of Pwani Innovation Week (PIW) to create a culture of innovation. New dates for the event which was put off in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic will now be from March 28 \u2014 March 31, 2022. The innovation week whose theme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}