SMEs to recieve Microsoft support at Techpoint SME Clinic 2020

Feb 17, 2020

Microsoft will be empowering about two thousand micro, small and medium-sized businesses at Techpoint SME Clinic this year.

Techpoint SME Clinic

4Afrika, Microsoft’s business and market development engine in Africa, is supporting the training of small businesses on ways to automate their business processes and use technology to scale. Techpoint SME Clinic is scheduled to take place in Lagos, Nigeria on 29th February 2020.

Microsoft shares, it is partnering with Techpoint as their SME clinic vision aligns with the 4Afrika vision. That is “to turn today’s ideas from Africa through the power of technology into solutions“. The company will provide SMEs with digital transformation, scalability and sustainability opportunities.

Amongst others, the SMEs will learn; how to take a business online the right way. How to market products and services online and how to get loans and funding for business.

Head of Strategic Partnerships at Microsoft 4Afrika, Soromfe Uzomah notes SMEs are most in need of six things. Access to finance, markets, affordable technology, information and skills and services. These he says are essential for their scalability and sustainability.

Together with our partners, we provide SMEs access to all of these. Through initiatives such as Microsoft for Startups, MySkills4Afrika, Microsoft Virtual Academy, Biz4Afrika and Interns 4Afrika. On our educational platforms, our training content is tailored to suit the different growth stages of an SME.”

Microsoft says the 4Afrika initiative has reached 1.7 million small and medium businesses and supported more than 300 startups. 

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