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Emerging To Convergence of Technologies.
Beyond the buzzwords both in Bio-technology (Genome editing, bio sensors etc.) and Information-technology (AI, Block chain, Big data, IoT, 5G etc.), we are just starting to see real life and practical applications of these technologies at scale.
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Agriculture 4.0 – Data As The Driver.
This article was first published in The Economist Intelligence Unit Food sustainability Index. Across the African continent, smallholder farmers contribute significantly to food security in their countries, accounting for the majority of the food consumed. However, the desire to produce more food on less land has resulted in these farmers transitioning into unsustainable farming…
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Multi-sided Business Models to Digitize Africa’s Agriculture
Myself and 2 other young entrepreneurs working in the digitalisation for agriculture sector have learned the hard way that delivering technology-driven solutions for smallholder farmers in Africa can present special challenges. Here, we share some of our insights, including a survival strategy that we think is critical to success – diversify or die. In…
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Vanity Fair Global Goals List
The Global Goals List, published online and in the March edition of Vanity Fair UK, is created in partnership with One Young World – the global forum for young leaders that identifies, promotes and connects the most impactful young leaders to create a better world, with more responsible, more effective leadership.
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Developing Skills for the Digital Economy
Over the last few months, I have been hiring for my start-ups and the experience has not been good! You would expect that in a country (Kenya) with up to 22% unemployment rate (the largest in the region) could have lots of skilled people flooding the market with minimal opportunities to absorb them. But no. There’s…
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Disrupting The Water Business
Africa remains the continent that is still highly affected by access to water. Over 300 Million out of the 1.2 Billion population still lack clean and reliable water sources.
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Taking on Africa’s Biggest Challenges
The Techstars Paris program welcomes startups from all over the world. One of them comes directly from Kenya: Hydrologistics. We interviewed its CEO, Brian Bosire, to know more about their activity and about Brian’s views on the Techstars program. 1.Please share with us a little bit about what your start-up specializes in? Over 50% of water…
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THE GAP IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE
The Knowledge Gap In Kenya and across the continent, small holder farmers contribute highly to the food security in their countries, accounting to over 75% of the food produced. However, the need to produce more food in less land has resulted in these farmers transitioning into unsustainable farming practices that have affected the soils…