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CITE

Our mission is to create space for creativity and promote “ARTIVISM” which is the creative integration of art and activism for social change. <p></p> We believe in African Innovation, discovering the innovation opportunities is the first step in our process at the Centre For Innovation & Technology we provide an <mark>open community space, an incubator that is vibrant and enables a collaborative environment for innovators and startups to think through their ideas, and develop their solutions, so as to turn these opportunities into meaningful products, services, and businesses</mark>, Sometimes we have a pretty good sense of where the opportunities are and the real challenge is to come up with ideas to take advantage of the opportunity.


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The Tech Village

The Tech Village is an innovation hub that runs incubation and acceleration programmes focused on skill acquisition and youth engagement. <p></p> The TechVillage is the first and only collaborative working space for young entrepreneurs in Bulawayo, aiming to help build and launch 20 start-ups in and around Africa every year. Leveraging on the collaborative brilliance of our community and the use of technology to greatly reduce cost whilst significantly multiplying impact, <mark>The TechVillage seeks to empower the youth through the provision of relevant education, affordable access to information and technology and ultimately inspire creativity through experiences. While the TechVillage is physically based in Zimbabwe, it actively grows and connects with entrepreneurial communities across the continent that are called Tribes.</mark> Through the provision of resources, infrastructure, community, education and working space, the TechVillage will create employment, foster collaboration through peer driven learning and contribute to the development and commercialisation of Africa’s abundant intellectual and human resource.