When Modisar Net decided to develop livestock management app Modisar to provide farmers with a new way to accurately record and monitor farm inventory, employees, animals and finances, it turned to the Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) in Botswana for help. Not only was the Gaborone, Botswana-based company able to build its precision livestock farming software on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, but it also received technical mentoring and help to grow its network while incubated at the centre. Thanks to the help of MIC Botswana and Microsoft’s technology, the Modisar app beat 449 competitors to win the 2014 Orange African Social Venture prize and came top at the Seedstars Gabrone 2015 competition in December 2015.
