Hey friends, Mahmoud here👋.
This is the first Sparko issue. It’s a bi-weekly newsletter that helps first-time founders and entrepreneurs to discover new opportunities.
🚀 The Opportunity
The World Summit Awards is looking for startups and creative entrepreneurs in Morocco in partnership with Maroc Numeric Cluster.
Represent Morocco with your project that serves the sustainable development goals of the United Nations in the World Summit Awards and connect with invested experts and specialists around the world.
To participate, please register on the link:
🔦 The World Summit Awards Categories
💛 GOVERNMENT & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT
Services | Open Data | Democratic Participation
💛 HEALTH & WELL BEING
Medical Care | Sport | Lifestyle
💛 LEARNING & EDUCATION
Knowledge | Science | Skills
💛 ENVIRONMENT & GREEN ENERGY
Climate | Sustainable Resources | Agriculture
💛 CULTURE & TOURISM
Heritage | Entertainment | Subcultures
💛 SMART SETTLEMENTS & URBANIZATION
Mobility | Productive Work | Sustainable Living
💛 BUSINESS & COMMERCE
Innovative Services | Security | Finance | Marketing
💛 INCLUSION & EMPOWERMENT
Diversity | Gender | Justice | Human Rights.
🔮 Maroc Numeric Cluster
Maroc Numeric Cluster is a public-private governance association that promotes Moroccan digital innovation nationally and internationally.
Maroc Numeric Cluster is a public-private governance structure bringing together several players: Government, large companies, small and Medium Enterprises, university researchers and associative and financing organizations with the objective University researchers A and Financial organizations with the objective to support and develop creative projects around 4 key activities of new technologies as a Cluster including:
💛 Mobile services
💛 Security, electronic payment, digital rights
💛 Multimedia
💛 Software
Follow Maroc Numeric Cluster on Facebook.
To learn more about this opportunity visit the WSA Young Programs
📰 Interesting Reads
⚪ How Your Organization Can Innovate in a People-Centric Way
When we talk about innovation, we often talk about harnessing people's creative energies, and then turning that energy into something of value. How can we help people collaborate and create new things?
Innovation, at its heart, is a challenge.
To address address key innovation needs, people should connect, collaborate, and use collective intelligence. However, people don't always behave as we expect. As we all come from different cultures and have different motivations, a people-centric view of innovation is critical to unlocking creative potential.
⚪ What Founders Need to Know About Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
500 Startups recently hosted Mariah for a fireside chat to explore why DEI matters for early stage startups and how founders can implement DEI. An experienced entrepreneur and investor, Mariah has a wealth of knowledge on building DEI into company culture.
🔥Products
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💎 Learnings
Sparko is a bi-weekly newsletter born to primarily help first-time founders and entrepreneurs to discover new opportunities & unlock collaborations across the world.
We cover entrepreneurship news, startups ecosystem markets and opportunities to help you boost your side project, your startup and your teams.