BoxBuzz
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
BoxBuzz is an alert system that sends text messages to the mobile phones of...
mPedigree
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)mPedigree Network came into being to counter the scourge of counterfeit and substandard medicines...
Konga Online Shopping Mall
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
Nigerian serial entrepreneur Sim Shagaya, CEO, founded Konga Online Shopping Ltd. in July 2012...
Crocodile Browser Lite
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
Imagine two teenage coders taking on Google Chrome, Google Inc.’s free web browser for...
Safari Yetu
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
Safari Yetu, Kiswahili for “Our Journey,” is a web and mobile-based reservation and ticketing...
FABA (For Africa By Africans: Tutu Tester
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
The Tutu Tester is a mobile clinic that offers screenings and testing for tuberculosis,...
Mellowcab
A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
South African entrepreneur Neil du Preez developed the Mellowcab as an eco-friendly means of...
Dropifi
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
Dropifi is a smart widget developed by three young Ghanaians that allows small businesses...
Emergency Auto-Transfusion Set
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
In 1989, Brigadier General Otu Oviemo Ovadje, a medical doctor in the Nigerian Army,...
Oil Spill (OSP) Cement
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)Burundese-born chemical engineer and entrepreneur Jean Bosco Kazirukanyo, Ph.D., founder and managing director of...