The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and its partners are pleased to invite researchers, firms, public and private development agencies, government leaders, innovators, youths and development partners to showcase their innovations at the first Africa Innovation and Investment Forum 2020 with a focus on COVID-19, from 15-19 June 2020. The Innovation Challenge 2020 The […]
Entrepreneur Middle East and THEORY invite you to join a live and interactive discussion on “The Power of Market-Creating Innovation” on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 9.30pm (UAE) led by TED speaker Efoso Ajomo and New York Timesbestselling author Karen Dillon, both of whom have co-authored books with the late Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, known as the architect of, and […]
In response to the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, Helium Health has developed the Helium Teleclinic platform that enables brick and mortar hospitals to have televisits with their patients. Helium Health’s flagship product is the Electronic Medical Records/Hospital Management Information System, an end-to-end software which helps hospitals manage and digitally store the data. The company’s product is currently […]
UNOPS Global Innovation Challenge brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, programmers and developers to provide the creative ideas and solutions needed to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS Participants should submit their ideas by 31 July 2020, 24:00 Central European Time (CET) to be considered. READ MORE About the Global Innovation Challenge
As part of its mandate, the OneGhana Movement lends its voice to various national and social causes. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 therefore; the organisation issued various press releases addressed to the government on the threats the virus could pose, and suggested recommendations to help mitigate the situation. The OneGhana Movement developed fifteen (15) educational […]
South African company EPCM Holdings has reacted quickly to the heightened demand for ventilators due to the Covid-19 outbreak. It will this week start producing its first low-cost ventilator (see prototype in the above video) units for delivery to several African countries. Read More Source: How We Made It In Africa
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Inventors in Ethiopia have been developing devices and gadgets to combat COVID-19. One of them, Ezedine Kamil, has told DW how a lack of funding prevents his designs from fully benefitting local communities. Read more Source: DW Online
Jkuat has unveiled two portable solar-powered ventilators that use a 12V battery, a contact tracing application, a digital system that predicts Covid-19 infection trends in Kenya and an automatic solar-powered hand-washing machine. Read more Source: Daily Nations, Kenya
