Technology Archives - InnovationAfrica

Keeping fruit, vegetables and cut flowers fresh longer

New technology offers the promise of reducing billions of dollars of losses that occur each year from the silent, invisible killer of fruits, vegetables and cut flowers — a gas whose effects are familiar to everyone who has seen bananas and other fruit ripen too quickly and rot. That’s the conclusion of an article in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews. ...

Futures of Technology in Africa

I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Jasper Grosskurth recently at a conference in Frankfurt. The aim of his book is to make you think again about Africa...

Bring in the tech nerds to help expand financial inclusion

(image: Sean Graham, Flickr Creative Commons) It has become mainstream to think that digital technologies will have a significant role to play in addressing...

The East Africa Climate Innovation Network: accelerating climate technology innovation in East Africa

East Africans have a unique opportunity to harness the vast innovation and business opportunities in the climate change and clean technology sectors, through...

How to predict the future of technology?

Forget Moore’s Law — Step and Wait The bread and butter of investing for Silicon Valley tech companies is stale. Instead, a new method of predicting...

How to Use Technology for Citizen Participation

The model citizen participation process has citizens holding their governments accountable to deliver quality public services in a transparent and responsive...

Persecuting Biotechnology

“Nearly two decades of propaganda and advocacy based on questionable scientific evidence forced many countries to forego the benefits of a new technology...