On December 26, 2016, I spent 03 weeks in Cameroon - a country in Central Africa - to launch a project that our team set on carrying out more than 15 months ago.Thus, following several conferences and workshops that had...
From Farm to Fork how to use technology to improve our eating habits
Kongossa Technology partnered recently with the Concordia Greenhouse to organise the 4th edition of 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...
How technology is improving people live and the power of the diaspora
Jon Gosier addressed the audience during KWS13 at Concordia University in Montréal. His keynotes emphasized the benefits of technology in Africa and the diaspora. He is well known for his leading role on Appfrica and Apps4Africa and also HiveColab projects. Jon Gosier believes that the APP is the language the...
Get to know who is Romeo Ngaba, our COO
Hometown: Montreal, Canada Education: Law, University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon Interests: Reading, Chinese film, Sports, Humans, Personal development, Success stories, Zen, Anthropology Life Philosophy: Find beauty and silence in every sound. Born March 27, 1982 in Yaoundé, Romeo Ngaba has...
We are happy to welcome Joseph Atangana on board
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...