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Growth poles can help create jobs for Africa’s one billion citizens (Credit: World Bank) We were asked the other day by our senior management to be outrageously aspirational when we engage with growth poles. I have been reflecting on what this means for our work on this topic in Africa, especially in light of the findings of the Africa Competitiveness Report. I think we need to be aspirational in...
In an interview for the African Business Magazine, infoDev Program Coordinators, Ellen Olafsen and Jonathan Coony illustrate how Africans are emerging as future leaders in the global marketplace by harnessing their innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. Click here to read the article as it appeared in the original source IN WHICH FIELDS DO YOU THINK AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAVE THE GREATEST POTENTIAL TO BECOME...
Source: SciDev: A new UN body to advise nations on climate tech may break the deadlock in the long-running debate on transferring technology finds Joanna Carpenter. Rich nations have the technological know-how needed for poor nations to develop — but how do you deliver it without compromising theintellectual property and the business edge that such technologies gives economies that have it? This is one of...
Source: InfoDev Since its launch in September 2012, the center has accepted over 25 entrepreneurs into its program. One of the successful applicants is Kenneth Ndua, who has designed and developed an energy efficient cookstove that simultaneously boils water. Kenneth has been working with women’s groups in Kibera, Kawangware and Ruiru since 2002. Through this work, he observed that many local residents were...
InnovationAfrica is pleased to provide a free version of the book ” My Simple Innovation Action Book to Change My World” by Pradyot Sahu. The link is at the end of the page. The author is from India. As such he writes from a perspective that Africans can relate to. This is an example of South-South Innovation which we can learn from. Similar Products: Powered by South-South...
HERE’S another video from our recent “Innovation Forum 2013″ event, held in Berkeley, California. Chris Anderson, former editor of Wired (and before that a journalist at The Economist), discusses why the advent of digital manufacturing, which encompasses 3D printing and other techniques, is giving rise to a new industrial revolution—and why this technology has the potential to be bigger than...
