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Sadibou Sow on Dev Academie’s mentor-guided open learning space and its expansion plans in 2016
“"The first year it was mobile apps and websites. Students made about $2000 from those...a small number of students."”
Rapelang Rabana on creating learning in bite-size chunks for web and mobile phones
“We're also interested in going into Kenya...The pilot we've just finished there is an agricultural training, looking at training agricultural officers.”
Parminder Vir, Tony Elumelu Foundation on a programme to create 10,000 African entrepreneurs
“"When TEEP was announced in 2015 we received 20,000 applications from 52 countries across Africa."”
Nii Simmonds on how Africa’s diaspora can help build agri-businesses
“"Some of these conglomerates will start to put (Innovation) Labs in Africa to come up with innovative food products."”
Bunmi Okunowo, NITDA on how the Nigerian Government supports entrepreneurship
“"The investors are looking for something that is ripe and they can invest in."”
Daniel Asare-Kyei on how esoko’s price information gets Ghanaian farmers more money for their crops
“"The farmers don't pay directly for the system. We work through producers and agribusinesses."”
William Bird on using Commotion Wi-Fi mesh software to provide free Internet South African cties
“Commotion is an Open Source Software to build a mesh network. We've taken that to see how we can get a community to communicate for free.”
Andrew Rudge, Reach Trust on expanding the mobile reach of its African ed & health service
“We're working with Facebook's Internet.org and we'll be launching some of our services in the next couple of months."”
Daudi Were on launching Ushahidi Version 3 and the Making All Voices Count programme
“"There's an exciting idea in Mozambique using a radio station and low tech to get people interested in Freedom of Information."”
Product designer Ayo Adigun on teaching Kenyan students STEM skills to solve community problems
“There's no reason why people in Africa can't be product designers.”
Dominic Vergine, ARM on Literacy Bridge’s talking book with advice for farmers in Northern Ghana
“We're still talking about 3 billion people that don't really benefit from technology.”
GSMA’s Claire Sibthorpe on a study on the gap between men and women’s use of mobile phones in Africa
“Women are using mobiles for basic services and when you look at more sophisticated services like Internet and mobile money, there's again a big gap.”
Sarah Hoey, TReND in Africa on a 3D printing facility in Tanzania to print university lab equipment
“"When African universities order pipettes or lab components, they can be printed, assembled and shipped out from Tanzania."”
Elizabeth Hensick Wood on Worldreader’s large mobile reading community in Africa
“"we have some very prominent African authors providing stories and books to Worldreader."”
Murali Shanmugavelan, MApp-IT on an Android app to collect evaluation data for projects in Africa
“"Large-scale development projects need constant monitoring and evaluation and especially when they happen in remote areas."”
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