Colombia 3.0, is a non-profit initiative of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications, well known as one of the top gatherings in Latin America for technology and digital culture. This third version of the summit will bring together investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, developers, and academics, from several continents over the course of three exciting days in order to accelerate industry initiatives, participate in workshops and conferences, exchange experiences and of course, networking on all things related to: Video Games, Mobile Development, Software Development, 3D Animation, Music and Transmedia.
The event will take place from September 3rd - 5th, 2013 in the T-Zone, in Bogotá, Colombia.
TOPICS AND ACADEMIC AGENDA
This year, those who attend Colombia 3.0 will enjoy the presence of over 120 world class personalities of great importance for the digital content industry. The topics treated are focused on entrepreneurship, monetization, funding and internationalization of digital content. In addition to the masterful interventions, speakers will participate in discussion forums with people from the government and from the industry.
Colombia is getting a new incubator called Socialatom Ventures, startup mentor and entrepreneur Alan Colmenares announced on his blog, Tropical Gringo. It will be one of the three ‘consolidation’ incubators to be supported by the Colombian government, he adds.
This support is actually part of Colombia’s Vive Digital initiative, itself promoted by Apps.co. As you may know, it was designed by Colombia’s Ministry of ICT (MinTIC) to promote digital entrepreneurship in the country.
In addition to seed capital, Socialatom Ventures will also offer its teams a shared office space in Bogotá. It is worth noting that the selection process is about to start, and will be open to applications from all over Colombia, or even from other countries.
According to its website, the incubator will base its choice on the following criteria:
A team able to execute must be comprised of at least two co-founders
At least one of the co-founders should be technical (enough to hack something together and get started)
Your team should have a product or prototyped finished
Your product or prototype should have (at least some) users.
The problem you are trying to solve should be your own
tuta.co: is the online marketplace for plain weird services. With tuta.co, anybody can buy, sell or even request these creative, fun, or even strange services (like hidden camera pranks, personal paparazzi, digital serenades, and more) for others to buy, personalize and share. tuta.co offers a whole world of options, a new way to generate impact in your social network, and a new type of entertainment in which everyday people can be the stars.
Yimup, "redefining music industry", is an IT company that offers cloud music services to any artist who want to have their own online music business, allowing them to manage by themselves all their digital marketing of their work in an easy, secure and inexpensive way.
StartBull is a financial social network where a stock simulator of the main LATAM markets joins with social tools. Our goal is to potentiate the capital markets in Latin America through a social, comprehensive and accessible education.
Voice123 is the largest voice overs database and voice casting service for projects of all types (commercials, promos, documentaries, audio books, phone systems, corporate presentations, etc.) with over 100,000 voice industry professionals registered. Voice123 was founded by Alexander Torrenegra and Tania Zapata.
Voice123 connects “voice seekers” (the job poster) with the voice over talents of Voice123 required for their projects, using a comprehensive (patent-pending) voice casting service known as ‘SmartCast’. Voice over projects on Voice123 include simple phone messages, website advertising & entertainment, as well as, major media production for networks and film, on an international scale. Voice123 offers voices in dozens of languages.
Voice123 has been serving the needs of the online voice over casting world since 2003, and is the premier marketplace to post voice over work, and find voice over talent. Voice123 has maintained a customer satisfaction rating of 90% and higher over the past year and a half due to its development in the field of customer service and innovative product development to answer the needs of its customers.
On Monday, June 24th, 2013 at 6:00pm Telefónica partnered with Mobile Monday Silicon Valley for Truth About Millennials. This event was held at the 2013 Mobile Commerce World conference. This event was held so that Telefónica could show their research on Millennials.
Here is some background information about Telefónica's study on Millennials:
Telefónica in partnership with the Financial Times, commissioned 12,171 online quantitative interviews among Millennials, aged 18-30, across 27 countries in six regions including North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Middle East & Africa. Penn Schoen Berland conducted the 190 question survey from 11 January – 4 February 2013.
Millennials from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela were surveyed. Country sample sizes represented in the global number are weighted by the percent of the population in each country with access to the Internet. The global margin of error is +/-.9 percent.
