<translate> This initiative aims to support local innovation approaches that are empowering and inclusive of African stakeholders. Last year, we supported an event convened by Lawyers Hub titled White Capital, Black Founders that interrogated how race, nationality, and class biases limit the opportunities available to African innovators by foreign companies and investors. This was followed by a pan-African study conducted by AfriLabs on the key challenges faced by African technology entrepreneurs, that range from access to capital, legal and policy barriers, cross border collaboration, to competition as it relates to closed platforms. Meanwhile, Indian regulators have increased policy activity aimed at cultivating national champions as well as promoting the idea of self-reliant Indian consumer technology ecosystem as a challenge to Silicon Valley market dominance. Notably, this wave of policy has received push back from both civil society and some sections of the start-up community who argue these moves could potentially entrench concentration of power among select domestic business elites, and risk replicating concerns with Silicon Valley business models. <swh>Mpango huu unakusudia kusaidia mbinu mpya za uvumbuzi wa kiasilia zinazowezesha na kuhusisha wadau wa Kiafrika. Mwaka uliopita, tuliunga mkono hafla iliyoandaliwa na Lawyers Hub, yenye mada Mtaji Mweupe, Wakurugenzi Weusi White Capital, Black Founders. Hafla hii ilihoji jinsi upendeleo wa mbari, utaifa na wa kitabaka unavyowekea mipaka fursa zinazoletwa na makampuni na wawekezaji wa kigeni kwa wavumbuzi wa Kiafrika. Halfla hii ilifuatiwa na utafiti wa Afrika yote uliofanywa na Afrilabs kuelewa chamgamoto muhimu zinazowakabili wajasiriamali wa kiteknologia, kama upatikanaji wa mtaji, vizuizi vya kisheria na sera, ushirikiano wa kuvuka mipaka ya nchi, na ushindani unaohusiana na majukwaa yaliyodhibitiwa mtandaoni. Wakati huo huo, wasimamizi wa India wameongeza shughuli za kisera zinazolenga kukuza mabingwa wa kitaifa na vile vile kukuza wazo la mfumo wa ikolojia ya mtumiaji wa India la kujitegemea kama ushindani kwa utawala wa soko la Silicon Valley. Haswa, wimbi hili la sera limepokea upinzani kutoka kwa asasi za kiraia na sehemu za jamii ya waanzilishi wa biashara ambao wanahoji kuwa hatua hizi zinaweza kusababisha nguvu kukita mizizi miongoni mwa wanabiashara wachache nchini, na hivyo kuendeleza changamoto zinazohusishwa na mbinu za kibiashara za Silicon Valley. 