Impact Hub Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Impact Hub Phnom Penh is the largest community for entrepreneurs, changemakers, creatives and techies in the heart of Phnom Penh. It enables entrepreneurs to achieve success through dynamic programmes, incubators and mentoring, and inspire and engage the local community with events. It nurtures start-ups across new thematic areas, particularly in agriculture and rural development. Under this initiative, following major programmes have been launched in Cambodia 1) SAAMBAT Digital Agriculture Accelerator: A six-month equity-free program to scale up tech solutions that strengthen Cambodia’s agricultural ecosystem 2) SmartStart Unipreneur Learning Platform (ULP): An accredited blended learning curriculum to equip university students with an entrepreneurial mindset and technical capabilities 3) SAFE Forest Restoration Incubation Program: An online business training program to support initiatives that safeguard and restore natural ecosystems 4) Climate Quest: Building awareness and understanding of climate change through creative card games for Cambodian youth 5) Changemakers Social Incubator 2: An experiential leadership program to enable diverse Phnom Penh youth become problem solvers and social innovators 6) Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE): Helping women entrepreneurs with the knowledge, networks, and resources to launch and scale successful businesses and 7) Khmer Agriculture for the Future Accelerator: An equity-free accelerator to scale the impact of ventures in climate-resilient agriculture and agroecology. [Please review links: https://phnompenh.impacthub.net/our-story/ and https://phnompenh.impacthub.net/]
Lead (category)
NGO / social enterprise
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Impact Hub Phnom Penh
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Technology-neutral supporting services (incubation, finance, training, etc)
Agritech, startup or SMEs capacity and enabling services
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Social Services (Education, Health, Skills)
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Climate Quest: Building awareness and understanding of climate change through creative card games for Cambodian youth Changemakers Social Incubator 2: An experiential leadership program to enable diverse Phnom Penh youth become problem solvers and social innovators Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE): Empowering women entrepreneurs with the knowledge, networks, and resources to launch and scale successful businesses
Business and governance structure
Impact Hub Phnom Penh, a social enterprise/NGO, is an innovation space, a business incubator, a social enterprise builder.
DI ICT-deliverables format
Interactive data exchanges
Web-based platform
Digital education
Precision agriculture
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Agribusiness / private organization
SMEs / agreprenuers
Startups
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
In Numbers, Since 2015: 1 600 + alumni of pre-incubation, incubation, and acceleration programs 17 university partners implementing entrepreneurship curriculum
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
In Numbers, Since 2015: $ 1.15 mil in equity-free seed funding mobilized for over 150 early-stage start-ups 500+ social impact enterprises and startup teams supported through Impact Hub programs
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
National
All over Cambodia
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution