Selorm Branttie

Selorm Branttie

Selorm is the Global Strategy Director to mPedigree, a mobile-based solution to securing products against faking, counterfeiting, and diversion. So far, the app has been designed to identify fraudulent medicine and drugs in Africa and Asia as well as identify counterfeit agricultural products. He has found pan-African success and support for mPedigree. In addition to …

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The Age of the Internet Calls for Younger Leaders

Days before Algeria’s 82-year-old strongman president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted from power, the country made one last ditch attempt to keep control: it shut down the internet. A few weeks later, 75-year-old Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s rule ended with a picture of mainly female protestors going viral on social media platforms. If there has been any common …

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