At Kongossa Technology, we aim for a better future using technology and new ideas to empower people in need and unlock rural areas potential. This is a tough mission but it's not impossible. Thus, to achieve that immense goal, we...
Social Economy and Technology, an awesone match for the future of Quebec
Social Economy in Quebec by Numbers - 7000 collective companies employ more than 150K people - About 7 billion dollars of sales is 8% of the GDP -65% of rated of survival after 5 years, compared with for SEM traditional...
Technology in Agriculture : Our journey to the smart village – I
Technology in agriculture - Towards the smart village Discover Mbankomo For several months now, Kongossa Technology has initiated a smart city project with multiple test sites in Cameroon. As part the initial phase of this project, I visited Cameroon on...
From Farm to fork : how to use technology to improve the way we eat?
During a panel on food industry issues, Kongossa Technology has invited Catherine Lefebvre, Cathrin Rintoul and Jean-François Auchambault for the debate.In this discussion, the nutritionist Catherine Lefebvre acknowledged that the idea of a platform between farmers, producers and restaurants owers...
Social entreprises as a tool to fight poverty and exclusion worldwide
During the last KWS FORUM, we've invited Romain Buquet from Groupe SOS to share his opinion on how social enterprises can become powerful weapon to fight poverty and exclusion worldwide.In his presentation, Romain presented several points:1- Poverty, precariousness, and exclusion doesn't concern only poor...
Open innovation and Living Lab explained by Patrick Dube
Since 2010, the SAT has been approved and is working on several project of social innovation living lab. The world is changing and becoming increasingly volatile, industries and lives sites have become difficult and the emergence of social media is...
Technology for change : How to use technology to improve governance
Technology, as a tool for positive change - Marietta Fall Marieta Fall talks about a program which is situated within World Bank and which leads on the ITC which have for objective the improvement of performances of the government in particular regarding...
How to increase the impact of our ideas – Creativity
Eric Bourget gives some advice and tricks on how to increase the impact of ideas. During his intervention in the forum KWS, Eric Bourget wanted to answer to the question: how to make our idea grow up? Indeed today, the workshops on...
Kongossa and the Concordia Greenhouse present : Farm to Fork, Internet as a game changer
Kongossa and Concordia Greenhouse present the 4th KOSSI Kongossa on Social Innovation" (#KOSSI) is a recreational event imagined by the NGO Kongossa Technology whose purpose is to promote social innovation and solving of social challenges through the use of technology....
Social Innovation trends in 2016
In 2014, Kongossa Technology and their partners bring together social entrepreneurs from Quebec, Ontario and the USA to discuss about the positive impact of technology (watch the video below). Two years later, we still face a lot of challenges and...