Let’s hope it is a good one. We’d like to thank all our friends and partners for an exciting and wonderful year with you. We are more passionate than ever to work for our dreams to come true and make this world a little bit more sustainable step by step. We are looking forward to work with you on new challenges and to learn from more adventures together.
New year greetings!
Pamoja Cleantech team
Pamoja Cleantech was awarded a prize in the academic category of the Swedish Innovation Award. The jury’s justification for the prize reads:
“What began as an innovation project in the Swedish university environment is now a for-profit social enterprise network in Africa and Asia. We are impressed with the high level of innovation, commitment and a novel approach in spreading of an idea which contributes to sustainable growth in developing countries. ”
The jury consisted of Lena Torell-Treschow, IVA, Chairman, Anders Snell, Billerud, Charlotte Brogren, Vinnova, Jonas Wiström, ÅF, Ulf Lindberg Almega, Pontus Schultz, The Week’s Business and Jill Bederoff, The Week’s Business.
The main category award was won by the fastgrowing mobile VoIP provider Rebtel. “In a short time Rebtel have built up a brand known around the world, built on industry-leading innovation in technology and business model. Above all, it was shown that a fast growing user base can translate into profits in the company. ”
Since a while ago our team has been busy preparing for an upcoming field visit in the beginning of 2012. This was due to some good news – Pamoja team was awarded a grant in the SIDA Innovations Against Poverty and we will execute a business study to explore the potential of deploying our renewable energy solution at a pilot site.
Just recently we have been working to leverage best potential from the business study. Co-ordinating a multi-stakeholder process and aligning goals with several partners has taken its time. We are now on good direction and expect to be signing agreements in near future!
Ever since month of May good news from the field has kept us super motivated to push forward. During May our Stockholm team was busy preparing an application for the Innovations Against Poverty Programme initiated by SIDA. This work was a great process. We managed to communicate our systematic approach to rural electrification in a most simple and clear way. We learnt surprisingly lot from this and I think we discovered many new aspects of our innovation.
Simultaneously, a team of engineers have been touring East Africa with a mission to find a suitable pilot site for our first on site operations. This activity on the ground has paid off in new interesting partnerships and increased knowledge of course. We will disclose some amazing news in the near future, please stay tuned.
Pamoja Team
Since last update the team has been busy at many levels. There are 17 people involved in the project and we are gaining momentum. We have a team focusing on design and product development. This work is quite fascinating and attracts a lot of interest, in a few months time we will have what we call the Green Plant ready and running – our hybrid renewable energy micro powerplant.
Me and Felix has also been active negotiating and promoting our idea at the Social Entrepreneurship Forum and the Swedish East African Chamber of Commerce. Read more
We are proud to present our new design and start page: www.pamojacleantech.com
new pamoja website
Thanks to www.kmh-design.de.
//Felix
2011 seems to be a fast-moving year, January is gone and I have some news to share with you . First of all, the business challenge at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation – was an excellent learning experience. We are more confident than ever that our business case is strong and we´re also glad to find a group of new friends from all over the world in our network. Moreover, relevant contacts to potential future negotiations with BASF and KIC Innoenergy were established. The Pamoja Cleantech team is gratetful for a wonderful experience. Big thanks to the organisation team and congratulations to the winning teams from South Africa, Germany and China.
I am quite thrilled over the recent developments for our startup. Our research programme with Aalto University/ Product development department and KTH/ Sustainable Energy department has kicked off. Read more
Pamoja Cleantech team has been invited to compete among the best student entrepreneurs in one of the world’s finest business case competitions – Business Masters 2010. Our team is among the 10 finalists and we will travel to Karlsruhe 12-15 January to present in the final round. Read more
