Innovation ecosystem and encouraging entrepreneurship

The government of Somaliland, through the Ministry of ICT, established the Somaliland Innovation Zone (SIZ) in October 2021 with the goal of creating an innovation ecosystem and encouraging entrepreneurship as innovation appears to be the key enabler of development in any sphere of life, including economic growth, educational accessibility, environmental sustainability, communication, better well-being, and youth employment, which the government considers superior.

SERVES PROVIDE by SIZ
- Training
- Mentorship
- Co-working Space
- Seed Funding

Somaliland Innovation Zone always emphasizes the development of Tech simple-to-use product and services that are highly marketable to enhance ICT skills, these have the following goals:
- Create innovation ecosystem
- Providing sustainable support to national innovators.
- Promoting ICT products, services, and solutions to improve both public and private local economies
- Reducing youth unemployment through providing highly ICT skills

• Location: Hargeisa, Somalia, East Africa
• Website: https://siz.govsomaliland.org/