What is VEMCI? VEMCI – the Vodacom Emerging Market Collaboration Innovation unit aims to collaborate with bright minds and idea entrepreneurs to bring their innovative ideas to the market. This open innovations platform, developed by Vodacom, is an opportunity for entrepreneurs, start-ups and universities to access Vodacom’s strengths, expertise, revenue streams, buying power, supply chain and technical capabilities.

VEMCI offers an environment in which innovations from anyone (individuals and small businesses) are identified and nurtured from idea-stage up to launching the commercial product or service, into the global world of telecoms.

This initiative will offer budding small companies and entrepreneurs the required financial, business, logistical, as well as technical expertise and support to successfully take a specific new idea to market by following a structured business and product development life-cycle methodology.