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JICA, in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy and iCog Labs, is carrying out the largest start-up event in Ethiopia called "Solve IT 2019". More than 2,000 participants from the ages of 18 to 28, in 15 cities, have registered for this innovation competition.

Since February, a series of trainings (on product development, business-plan development, marketing, etc) have been completed in each city and the regional hub competitions began last week. The top three winners from each region will be selected and invited to compete in the grand finale, which will be held in Addis Ababa in August.

So far, regional hub competitions were held in Jigjiga, Jimma and Bahir Dar cities. The top winners were selected and awarded.

The competition schedule for the remaining cities is as follows;

May 24-27:	Mekelle, Harar, Gondar, Hawassa
June 7-9:	Addis Ababa Asosa, Axum
June 14-16:	Semera, Dire Dawa, Arba Minch, Gambella
June 28-30:	Adama

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One of the regional innovation competition winners in Jigjiga city
(Their prototype is a hotel reservation management software, targeting low-mid level hotels)

Presentations were made to judges in Jigjiga city
(Their idea is to create an e-commerce platform for buying/selling a variety of products not only commercial products but also "service and data" etc.)

Demo Day of Prototype to audience in Jigjiga city