Today Somalia is making huge strides in social, business, economic and political aspects. This progress is encapsulated and popularized in a famous hashtag on twitter known as #SomaliaRising, and widely followed and retweeted.

To keep this spirit and momentum, we decided to mainstream the rise of Somali’s narrative into “iRise” – to demonstrate and ensure the momentum and spirit of Somalia rising is further galvanized and celebrated. Our name is primarily a catalyst for this story but, equally, embrace the innovative and entrepreneurship mind of Somalis community, globally and locally.

At the iRise hub, we aim to challenge, among many other things, the negative stereotypes that are often associated with Somalia by unlocking the their potential narratives, innovations and entrepreneurship acumen to the betterment of the country.

iRise is Open space Innovation hub for Somali technologist, innovators, researchers, social entrepreneurship, best and brilliant minds who can offer, create and bring a new solution to Somali’s multifaceted challenges, from socio-economic to development. We are simply an open space that is designed for multi-functional, multi-purposes to untapp Somali’s next generation of social entrepreneurs. Given Somali’s unique talent and rise of technology, we strongly believe that Somali’s solution can be found in the brain of the next generation of geeks, tech-savvy and social entrepreneurs.

Irise is based in Mogadishu, and dually registered in Sweden and Somalia as community hub.