In the midst of all the innovation, disruption, and new levels of efficiency in today’s world, health care delivery seems to have stoically refused to come of age. Rather than becoming increasingly accessible, efficient, and effective, it has largely become more bureaucratic, more expensive, more wasteful, and mostly devoid of the type of game-changing innovation …
The Safecity app lets women share their stories of harassment and abuse in public spaces in cities. Elsa D’Silva, one of its founders, says that women can use it to report “what happened, where it happened and when it happened”. D’Silva started to form the idea for Safecity during a visit to Sweden where, having recently begun …
Harness the potential of e-learning: Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and online universities such as Singularity University andMinerva are revolutionising learning and Africa has an opportunity to think deeply about providing quality education online, and figure out how to make it less costly and more interactive. James Kassaga Arinaitwe, global fellow, Acumen, Bangalore, India, @JamesArinaitwe Read More >
The seeds of the agricultural revolution that Africa has longed for have arrived, spawned by research and tech developments incubated in America, Europe and Australia. Agriculture 3.0 in industrialised economies is a revolution fuelled by big data and streamed from an explosion of new digital, satellite and laser technology. It is parsed for farmers to …
When 100 small-scale farmers banded together in Kenya’s Central Province to win a USD$240,000 contract supplying potatoes to a processing company, hopes were high. The rains were strong and weekly deliveries began in October 2014 and proceeded through November. Then the rains stopped, and so did the harvesting. Unable to fulfill the required weekly deliveries, …