Boris Bison, Cameroon Business Incubator Seals Deal to Spread 5G Tech Spaces Across Africa

Boris Bison (BB) Incubator, a Cameroon-based business incubator, has partnered with Ludique Works, a pan-African video game publishing company, and Start North, a Finnish technology learning accelerator network, to bring their technologically advanced learning environments, known as ‘5G Mokki Tech Spaces,’ to the African continent.

Mr. H.E. Bassilekin III Achille, Cameroon’s Minister for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Social Economy, and Handicrafts, offered Mr. Boris Ngala, the incubator’s Founder and CEO, his congratulations and personal support at the Boris Bison Youth Empowerment Business Incubator’s opening ceremony in Douala.

The 5G Mokki Tech Spaces, a high-tech learning, and communication environment in the shape of a small cottage, are the first of their kind in Africa. Mr. Ngala is also a Co-Founder of the 5G Mokki Tech Space network.

“Our goal is to create a Pan-African digital space network that connects Africa to Europe and the rest of the globe, boosting technology learning and adoption, remote employment, and entrepreneurship.” The network seeks to use cutting-edge technology to combat climate change while also fostering education, jobs, and regional economic growth.” Mr. Boris Ngala, Founder and CEO of BB Incubator and one of the 5G Mokki Tech Space network’s Co-Founders, stated.

The word’mokki’ comes from the Finnish word’mökki,’ which means ‘cottage.’ Innovative uses of fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication technologies are possible because to the cottage.

The incubator and its startups can be used to develop software applications that require ultra-fast internet connections, render immersive, three-dimensional (3D), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) learning experiences, and deliver innovative services and remote work to corporations all over the world, among other things.

Fifth-generation wireless communication technology will enable data connections that are a hundred times quicker on mobile devices and ten times faster than the fastest fixed broadband services now available, compared to previous technology standards.

Its genuine value resides in enabling whole new types of applications. Consider drones that can be controlled remotely, self-driving cars, and complex industrial processes. Consider telemedicine. Consider virtual or augmented reality for remote work and meetings. Think remote learning. The operative word is “remote”.

Ludique Works is creating a network of 5G Mokki Tech Spaces in other African countries and is implementing the cottages in Kenya and South Africa.

“The 5G Mokki Tech Space network has the capability to serve international and local businesses, to generate creative-economy and technology-based jobs, and to foster entrepreneurship through the acquisition of cutting-edge technology and hands-on initiatives that address local needs.” Furthermore, strong national and international partnership with universities and businesses supports this.” Mr. Douglas Ogeto is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ludique Works and one of the 5G Mokki Tech Space network’s Co-Founders.

Africa has the potential to become a productivity powerhouse due to its natural riches, young population, and expanding markets. Due to the overlapping timezones of Europe and Africa, European firms might have real-time access to technologically trained labor and services from Africa via high-touch, 5G-enabled remote connections.

The 5G Mokki Tech Spaces want to kill two birds with one stone by providing technology that enables sophisticated learning environments with remote connectivity, as well as learning solution material, beginning with technology and entrepreneurship.

Start North, a Finnish accelerator network, is developing the 5G Mokki Tech Spaces to stimulate the learning and use of new technologies to solve the challenges of global sustainable development. Leading Finnish universities pioneered the notion.

Aalto University is one of them, and it is one of the world’s leading institutes for 5G research and education. Aalto established its Summer School in 2019 as part of a co-innovation process with Nokia, the mobile communications technology giant, to engage students in developing real-world 5G applications. With cooperation from Start North, the Summer School created the 5G Mökki, which was then entrusted with exporting the concept.

Over 250 young people from throughout Africa applied for the 5G Summer School as part of a collaboration between Start North and Ludique Works in Africa. More than 60 people finished the program successfully, with some gaining ECTS credits (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System).

Aalto is in talks with a number of African business institutions and colleges, including the African School of Economics, which has campuses in Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, and Benin, as well as Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa University. In addition, a project is underway in Zambia to build a 5G Mokki powered by solar energy in a rural location to allow immersive learning and research in the field of agriculture.

Dr. Mark Nelson, founder and Director of Innovation at the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab, drew parallels between the high-tech cottage, the invention of the microscope in biology, and the telescope in space research, allowing the exploration of social interaction and society without people having to travel from one place to another, at the launch event of the 5G Mökki network at Häme University in Finland in October 2021.

Traditional degree-based education falls short of creating enough work prospects without creative methods to training and job creation. To demonstrate this argument, Cameroon’s universities graduate roughly half a million students each year, but only about 3,000 of these graduates find jobs. In Africa, Cameroon is no exception.

Financial instruments developed jointly by the African Union and the European Union, aimed at enhancing connectivity, know-how, and sustainable social and economic development, have aided the expansion of the 5G Mokki Tech Spaces network in Africa.

International firms can use the 5G Mokki Tech Spaces network to tap into highly skilled, youthful African talent, not only for remote work but also to spur innovation. Companies can submit a technology challenge to one of the 5G Mökki Summer Schools, for example, or assign a full-fledged development project.