On a balmy, spring evening in Tirana, around three dozen Albanian entrepreneurs are sat in a room of the same building where secretaries once committed communist government files to software. The presentation…
In Moldova, a Tech Community Emerges – But Gentle Growth is Key
Anca Albu, a Romanian-American, but London-based, social innovation expert, came to Moldova in November to kick-start its startup ecosystem. Despite its considerable economic disadvantages, she claims it has plenty of potential to…
Luxembourg, Building on Old Habits, Births a Tech Ecosystem
Luxembourg has always been something of a European anomaly. Today, a nascent crowd of tech entrepreneurs is hoping it can continue to be so. It will certainly benefit them. With a population…
Berlin’s Number26: More Than FinTech’s Pretty Face
The office of fintech upstart Number26, tucked into a corner of central Berlin between the meander of the River Spree and the city’s surviving, 800-year-old kernel, is unlike most bank headquarters. It…
Tech to Play Key Role in Armenia’s ‘Potemkin Village’
Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, is nestled among the green hills and mountains of the southern Caucasus. It is home to around 50,000 people, its main streets are wide and clean-slabbed and…
CodeGirl’s Lesley Chilcott on Narrowing Tech’s Gender Gaps
by Anam Alpenia Only 7% of tech startups are led by women. Among the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, only 25 are women and 23 have an all-male boardroom. It was these…
Polish Teen Creates World’s First Messaging App for Deaf People
It all began with a video game. More specifically, it began with Grand Theft Auto III, the free-roaming, criminal-sim that Mateusz Mach would play for hours at his parents’ house in Lebork,…
Why Are Poles Marching Against Surveillance Laws?
by Anam Alpenia Thousands of Poles have been marching through their country’s major cities, in protest of online surveillance laws proposed by the new right wing government. Foreign Policy yesterday accused the…
The Old Town and the Sea: How Marine Technology is Revamping Russia’s “Fortress in Europe”
Kaliningrad occupies one of Europe’s strangest geopolitical spaces. Tucked between Lithuania and Poland on the fringes of the Baltic Sea, the exclave is 300 miles from the rest of Russia, and almost…
The Year Ahead for Technology Law in Europe
2015 was a big year for technology law in Europe, with Safe Harbor slashed and the Single Digital Market high on Brussels’ agenda. But what do the continent’s lawyers make of the…