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Karim Sy
Founder
Jokkolabs
Private Sector & Development author
Karim Sy is an Ashoka Fellow and winner of the 2012 social entrepreneur award. He founded Jokkolabs, an “action tank” to promote structural change from an economic and social perspective. Thanks to his role as a catalyst for initiatives in both France and Africa, Karim was appointed to the Presidential Council for Africa (CPA), set up by President Emmanuel Macron in August 2017. His experience of working mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa covers business aviation, small-scale mining, water and mining prospection, consulting and the financial sector.
Jokkolabs
Jokkolabs is a network of innovation spaces created by Karim Sy in 2010 in Dakar to foster the emergence of start-ups. At the time, it was the first network of its kind in French-speaking Africa and it has grown around a community of independent hackers and free and open source software (FOSS) advocates that now covers around a dozen spaces in nine different countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Mali, Morocco, Burkina Faso, Benin, Gambia, France and Senegal).