Forty participants have recently started their entrepreneurial journey with the Kumul GameChangers 2017.
The participants were chosen from more than 300 applicants after a callout throughout the country, as well as the Pacific, for participants.
These included five entrepreneurs from the Pacific Islands joining 35 Papua New Guineans, who will undergo two weeks of intense training and mentoring in the boot camp.
“This boot camp will be a transformational boot camp as it will help them change the way they look at all the problems in the society and will help them develop solutions in a way that is efficient,” said Anthony Smare, chairman of Kumul Foundation.
“It uses less capital but delivers long lasting results that lift our country and our communities, as well as the Pacific communities, because we have now spread our wings across the Pacific.’’
The inaugural KGC program started in 2015 with 42 participants, which was a success in terms of what the entrepreneurs have achieved; some went as far as Silicon Valley in England and are working on creative innovations that could improve the lives of Papua New Guineans.
Kumul GameChangers is an entrepreneurship program that seeks innovative and scalable ideas that can address many of the challenges communities in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific face.
It is an initiative of the Kumul Foundation Inc. and supported by the governments of Papua New Guinea and Australia, through the PNG Governance Facility.