Entrepreneurship+ has learned that that MIT’s Legatum Centre for Development and Entrepreneurship has joined the mounting league of sponsors of the much anticipated DEMO Africa conference coming up later this month in Lagos, Nigeria.
The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 through a multi-million dollar gift from Legatum Group, a global investment firm, administers programs and convenes events that promote and shape discourse on bottom-up development, Entrepreneurship+ learnt from the Center’s website.
According to it, the Centre also administers a competitive fellowship program for incoming and current MIT students, from across all academic and professional disciplines, who have demonstrated the potential and commitment to create innovative and inclusive enterprises in low-income countries.
As reported by Distrupt-Africa, the centre’s $5,000 sponsorship aims to further its mission of catalyzing entrepreneurship for broad-based prosperity in low-income countries.
Already, some big wits across African economic sectors have been confirmed speaker at the event. They include:Aliko Dangote, Jorn Lyseggen, founder of Ghana’s Meltwater Entrrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), Tomi Davies, president of the African Business Angels Network (ABAN), and iROKO TV chief executive officer (CEO) Jason Njoku.
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