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Syed Karim, Outernet on a satellite media distribution service to reach people in unconnected areas
“"We're focusing on solving a problem where for example, an international NGO wants to get healthcare information out to the public."”
John Dada on the challenges of using broadband for development in a northern Nigerian town
“"The most sustainable solution for us would be fibre optic since that's within 5 kms of our organisation."”
Christina Crawley on OpenGov Hub which has 22 projects working in Africa
“A lot of the groups here have a focus on technology, building software tools to promote transparency”
Alice Liu, Director of ICT4D, Jhpiego on Mobile Technology for Health Workers & Improved Health Care
“Everyone's using paper registries...Some day I hope these will go away. It's painful to watch...”
Bas Hoefman, Text To Change on using SMS for Tanzania’s largest m-health programme
“It's a programme where young mothers can get information (by SMS) when they register with the time of their pregancy."”
Sascha Meinrath, X-Lab on using Mesh Wi-Fi to connect the unconnected in Somaliland and Tunisia
“We don't track users because we don't want to be part of surveilling the users of these kinds of systems.”
Jose Soares on the solar powered Wi-Fi lamp designed to change lives
“"It wasn't about a solar powered lamp. It was about the internet....With the lamp and the Wi-Fi, you're giving a person access to the world."”
Alan Knott-Craig Jr on how Project Isizwe brings Internet to low-income communities in Africa
“The middle road (for growth) is that we get some traction in the rest of South Africa and roll-out capacity for 20-25 million people.”
Joris Komen on the Library Pi, a low cost, solar powered device to deliver education resources
“Library Pi has 32GB of information resources we would expect people to need in an educational context”
UpEnergy: Mark Mutaahi & Sylvain Romieu on selling energy saving stoves in Africa
“People buy our products because they are aspirational...They're a symbol of an advanced level of education and an awareness of a cleaner technology”
Jessica Musila on a Kenyan online platform for holding MPs to account
“Many MPs are not computer savvy. Yet 70% of the population is under 35 so you'd expect them to have a web presence and a mobile number”
Susan Oguya, MFarm on helping Kenyan small-scale farmers sell their crops using mobile
“Currently we have 8,000 farmers using the system actively in the Central region of Kenya”
Wayan Vota on Feedback Labs which will allow citizens to rate & complain about schools and clinics
“There's a lot of conversation between Governments and donors but not a lot between citizens who are impacted and donors”
Kamal Bhattacharya, IBM Research Africa on using traffic flow data in Nairobi to improve the city
“We're trying to understand where the traffic hotspots are and how to improve the traffic flows in Nairobi”
David Rurangirwa on teacher training with Rwanda Education Commons and putting model lessons on TV
“Most of the schools we wanted to benefit from this teacher training portal did not have electricity”
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