http://www.technipedia.org Project presented on 28th February in Yaoundé (Cameroon), by Eva Patricia Gil, Community Initiatives Director at the Office of Learning Technologies at UOC

1. from idea to
Technipedia business!

2. Technipedia platform
You can
find it at
www.technipedia.org
www.technipedia.com
www.technipedia.net

3. Technipedia: our first steps agenda
Technipedia: our platform
Technipedia: the future

4. or how
Technipedia: our have we
reached
first steps where we
are now

5. Technipedia: Let’s Make Things Happen
“The world needs dreamers. But the world also needs doers. And
above all, the world needs dreamers who do”
S. Breathnach

6. Let’s talk about technology!
Let’s talk about technology

7. does Technology change the world?
Technology means new ways of relating to people
That’s why technology means economic growth!
If technology provides new ways of relating with
people we can do new things… or the same things in a
different and more effective manner

8. People using technology change the world
It is not technology, but people using technology, who change the
world

9. Access and Engagement
“Access” not only means accessing contents or spaces on the
web. It’s not just open the door. "Access" also means achieving
the specific contents you need, and finding them in an intuitive
and engaging way.
It means to be able to
apply contents
It means to share
contents and enhance
network around then

10. The Technipedia Solution
Our goal: ensuring the Technipedia project responds to real
needs and solves main problems people have when they want to
start a business

11. The User Centered Design perspective
Explore user needs and requirements
Design
Go back to the users with your design
Develop and test again!

12. Gathering User ’s Needs
In-depth interviews with final users and key agents involved in
the process: students of Business Administration, succesful
cases of entrepreneurship, people from SME incubator, catalan
investors…

13. Technipedia Plaform: Goals
The functions of the platform should be:
1. Finding information for starting up a business
2. Finding information about products and raw materials (database)
3. Fostering community and sharing experiences (social contact
and networking)
4. Educating about what it means to be an entrepreneur

14. Archetypical Users

15. Archetypical Users

16. Scenarios

17. Wireframes

18. Technipedia: our from idea
to business
platform

19. Technipedia: our platform

20. Find a Business Oportunity
Find a Business Oportunity

21. Create your own Business
Create your own Business

22. Participate on Techninet
Participate on Techninet

23. Join Technipedia…
Join Technipedia:

24. … and participate on Techninet!
Participate on Techninet:

25. My Profile

26. My Opportunities

27. My Opportunities

28. Technipedia: the What’s
going on?
future

29. the Future of Technipedia is about
Contents
Local Content Providers,
both Universities and
Users

30. the Future of Technipedia is about People
Join us…
… and become a Technipedian!

31. the Future of Technipedia is Global
Meeting Point for African Entrepreneurs and Investors
around the world

32. the Future of Technipedia is Mobile
Mobile Telecommunications impact positively on economic
growth
2 thirds of the world’s people have access to a mobile network
Even though Mobile Telecommunications have this positive
impact, we should take care because they can increase
inequalities if people don’t have access to them
(Castells et al, 2011)

33. Technipedia: the Working
together
team with…

34. Technipedia team
Thank you to everybody who has worked hard on Technipedia
Project

35. and see
Thank you… you there!