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Noel K. Tshiani, founding father of Congo Enterprise Community, speaks on this unique interview for TechCabal with Dieudonné Kayembe, founding father of the startup Motema. It goals to supply telephones and tables immediately from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Inform us a bit about your self and your skilled background.
My title is Dieudonné Kayembe Kabukala, managing director of Flèche Technologie (Flechtech) and Motema LLC. I’m a pc scientist who graduated from the College of Kinshasa with a level in arithmetic and data know-how. And I maintain a number of patents, certificates, and deserves at each nationwide and worldwide ranges. I’m a younger Congolese from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who got here from nothing, and I’m a passionate dreamer and visionary.
Conscious of the wealthy potential of the underground and the strategic place that my nation occupies within the centre of Africa, my dream is to supply the Democratic Republic of Congo with a strong know-how business and a digital coaching centre of reference.
I wish to arrange a producing and meeting plant to supply telephones and tablets regionally in Kinshasa.
What does your startup do and why did you launch it?
The undertaking Motema is a part of the enlargement of the actions of Flèche Technologie, a Congolese startup. This firm operates within the know-how innovation sector. It specialises within the design and manufacturing of digital gadgets comparable to telephones, smartphones, tablets, and laptops produced regionally below the Motema model.
The title Motema means “coronary heart” in Lingala, one of many nationwide languages spoken within the DRC. This phrase embodies the fervour and love that the creator of Motema has for the African continent normally and for the Democratic Republic of Congo particularly.
The overall goal is to make our contribution to the realisation of the imaginative and prescient of the Head of State Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo “to make the Congolese digital sector a lever for integration, good governance, financial development, and social progress”.
How are you going to resolve the issue of supplying electrical energy to your manufacturing unit?
Initially, we selected to arrange our manufacturing line in Gombe to resolve the difficulty {of electrical} power, as a result of in Gombe we now have good electrical energy in comparison with different locations in Kinshasa. Regardless of this, we typically have energy cuts, and we use the generator and photo voltaic panels.
So far as expertise is anxious, the place did you discover technical expertise to work in your startup and do you’ve gotten coaching for brand new workers?
To be aggressive available in the market, steady coaching is an obligation for us. We have now a programme known as Motema Academy, a coaching centre for Congolese youths on digital jobs, with a number of modules on skilled schooling.
What can the federal government do to help tech startups in order that they will succeed?
The nationwide authorities can certainly work with the startup ecosystem to make sure that our actions bear fruit by constructing on the promulgation of the legislation on startups that the President of the Republic enforce final September.
The measures to be taken into consideration embody: putting in an efficient framework to help Congolese startups; facilitating entry to credit score; offering exemptions; and giving simpler entry to contracts for the availability of tablets, telephones, and computer systems in all private and non-private establishments.