INNOVATION

Sustainable Movement in Africa: Its Growth and Model Houses

With sustainability being a major driving force of modern architecture, it is no surprise that Africa has also stepped forward to implement sustainability measures to…

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Wagerr; the digital currency that will change sports betting

Fans of sports betting have dealt with a lot more heartbreak than they can care to count. You are never sure what the outcome will…

Musings on the ‘Silicon Savannah’: Past, Present & Future – Afrinnovator

Kenya has come to be closely associated with technology innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly in the area of mobile technology, raising the country’s profile internationally as…

Looking North: Investigating Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship in North Africa

Much of our focus in the past has centered around Sub-Saharan Africa and in particularly key ‘hubs’ in the region – Nigeria in Western Africa,…

Rocket Internet May Be Just What Is Needed to Turbo-Charge African E-commerce

It might be an entrepreneur’s worst nightmare. Take co-founder of red hot Silicon Valley payment startup Stripe Patrick Collison’s recent visit to Nairobi, I quickly let…

Does the “Copy to/Clone…” Strategy work in Africa?

Every so often I hear venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley ask a recurring question regarding Tech Startups in Africa – why not just use…

Disrupting SMS Apps Space: Telerivet’s Distributed Mobile SMS Service using Android Phones

Most web and mobile startups in Africa need to have to some sort of messaging or notification layer that incorporates SMS. Wider businesses, large and…

Disruptive Innovation in the African Tech Context

What is it really to disrupt, or what is a disruptive innovation? And to put it in the African context, what does ‘disruption’ mean for…

Systems Thinking Applied To Why M-Pesa’s Economic Impact and Wealth Creation Lessons Affects the Ecosystem and Not Just the Bottom of the Pyramid

Niti Bhan is Founder at the Emerging Futures Lab. Niti integrates her multidisciplinary background in business, design and engineering with a global perspective to offer immediately…