About Us

Innovation Africa, established in December 2005, as a content aggregation service focusing on Innovation across Africa. Innovation Africa not only cover stories and report from Africa, but also from abroad. In particular we cover stories from Asia and Latin America. Countries in these regions have similar socio, economic and political challenges as many countries in Africa.
In short Innovation Africa;

• Connects you to global research, policies and knowledge
• Reports on South-South scientific and business research
• Shows there is clear link between innovation and development
• Facilitates learning

 

 

[box] The development and exchange of South-South knowledge will be an important element in Innovation in African countries. [/box]

What makes us different?

Innovation Africa is a learning space. In some of our reports, we bring a theoretical perspective to the stories we cover.  Our focus is on innovation in the true sense of the word. There are a number of important breakthroughs and inventions  taking place across Africa. What we do, is not only to report on these, but to suggest ways in which they could become an innovation.

Innovation Africa covers Science and Business; Product and Business process innovation (non technical innovations). We believe that new business processes offers more opportunities for innovation in Africa.

Innovation Africa profiles companies, organizations and people that are innovation leaders. Take our recent report on UNECA. We showed how truly innovative that organization is in exploring new ways of fostering research and development across Africa.

We realize Africa is a diverse continent. Innovation strategies must reflect the different stages of development in each country. Therefore our reports cover a wide variety of topics; from nano technology (suitable to countries like South Africa) to sanitation. We also cover non technological innovations reflecting the need for countries to build their management skills and capacity.

Africa as a continent, must now embrace innovation in both the private and public sectors. The underlying drivers of  - globalisation and technology- are having an unimaginable impact on Africa. The development challenge cannot be met with Innovation in science and business.

[box type="info"] In the final analysis, Innovation is the engine for growth; innovation is a driver of socio-economic transformation and progress leading to sustainable development.[/box]

 

Francis Stevens George, Owner & Publisher

Francis Stevens George was born in Sierra Leone. He has an Economics and Internationals Relations degree from the LSE. In 1991, Francis moved to Oslo, Norway.

In 1992 he completed his MBA from the Norwegian School of Management. In 2005, Mr, George, completed a Masters in Innovation and E-enterprise Management.

Between 1994-1999, Francis was a Senior Market Analyst at Norsk Hydro, the largest Norwegian company. He left in 1999 to join the dot.com train.

Since that time, he has consulted for the AMSCO (part of the World Bank Group), and NORAD. In 2002, Mr. George was part of the UN ICT Task Force.

Between 2001-2003 Mr. George ran workshops and courses in e-business and Innovation to a cross
section of Industry(Banking, Hospitality and Medical) in West Africa.

Mr. George has worked with several of the top Norwegian technology companies both as Manager and as a consultant. These include Fronter (e-learning), TraceTracker (food traceability) and Moota (Mobile value adding network management). He has successfully taken these technologies out of Norwegian to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

Mr. George has a passion for Innovation, ICT and its impact on development. To this extent he has written several papers and run several workshops and websites on topics related to ICT and Development.

 

 

Editor at Large: Dr. Eric Mazango.

Eric has a unique combination of skills in advanced research and market analysis, business management, and technology application. Proven ability to spot and analyze trends across product/services spectrum with ability to synthesize ICT industry knowledge for business
development and systematic penetration.