Talking about Innovative Technology from emerging markets

1. Ethel Cofie
The future of technology in Africa
TEDX ACCRA ( New ideas)

2. Africa’s embrace of technology turns
two common assumptions inside
out – that tech breakthroughs
happen in rich countries, and that
Africa needs basic services before it
can use high-tech solutions. What
Africa’s start-ups are doing is using
technology to build those basic
services – and a whole lot more.

3. TECHNOLOGY in AGRICULTURE

4. Traceability Namibia NamLITS

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10. Traceability Namibia

11. Drum Net : Financing Supply Chain

12. Drum Net : Financing Supply Chain

13. Drum Net : Financing Supply Chain

14. ZNFU: E Transport

15. Zanu: Uber like
2011 The Zambia National Farmers Union has launched an electronic
transport system, which will help farmers and other transport users to
easily find and organize transport for their agricultural products to and from
the market. The e-transport system will allow registered transporters to
make known to all potential transport users the availability of their trucks
on various routes via Transzam web, which is an interactive system.

16. TECHNOLOGY in EDUCATION

17. Can We Compete?
China produces 7,000,000
engineers annually
Barely 20,000 engineers
graduate in Africa
"Without ICT skills, Africa can not catch up with the rest of the
world as far as the knowledge economy is concerned

18. TECHNOLOGY in HEALTH

19. Breast Milk?
Mobile to Pasteurize breast Milk

20. Breast Milk?
Mobile to Pasteurize breast Milk
In South Africa, breast milk preservation chamber was
developed using mobile phone app: The FoneAstra
monitor, to regulate or monitor the temperature of
breast milk in the chamber. This great innovation idea is
from a team led by Professor Anna Coutsoudis, from the
department of pediatrics and child health at South
Africa’s University of KwaZulu-Natal
$700, FoneAstra accurately monitors
when the milk reaches the correct
temperature via a probe, which then
sends text messages to a mobile
phone and prints labels confirming
the results via Bluetooth.
Commercial Pasteurizers
=$20,000
FoneAstra=$700

21. TV and Health
The Botswana-UPenn Partnership (BUP) is collaborating with Microsoft, the
Botswana Innovation Hub, and other global partners to launch the first
telemedicine service in Africa using TV white spaces to bring internet connectivity
to hospitals and clinics across rural areas of Botswana. The pilot project, called
“Project Kgolagano,” will provide clinical consultations and diagnoses to a patient
population who would otherwise have to travel far distances to the capital city of
Gaborone, Botswana, for specialized care.

22. Pneumonia
The Botswana-UPenn Partnership (BUP) is collaborating with Microsoft, the
Botswana Innovation Hub, and other global partners to launch the first
telemedicine service in Africa using TV white spaces to bring internet connectivity
to hospitals and clinics across rural areas of Botswana. The pilot project, called
“Project Kgolagano,” will provide clinical consultations and diagnoses to a patient
population who would otherwise have to travel far distances to the capital city of
Gaborone, Botswana, for specialized care.

23. LETS TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE

24. Paper for Health ?
Conductive ink on Paper is a wonderful thing
The Ability to Print or even Draw an electronic circuit
board on paper will enable low cost , easily designed
solutions
Microsoft research labs created moisture sensor the
team has printed is meant for use on plants (. It detects
rainfall with one circuit and soil humidity with another,
transmitting its readings via a printed Wi-Fi antenna. The
team has printed paper wiring to connect the switch,
LED and battery of a 3D-printed flashlight.
Paper Computer

26. HARDWARE INSERTS THE
NEXT FRONTIER FOR
MOBILE IN AFRICA

27. India :
Refractive Eye
testing
US : Portable
Ultra Sound
Canada : Wind
speed
detector

28. •3D Printing tattoos of human bodies
• “ink” of these nanoparticles suspended in a saline solution that could be injected under the
skin like a tattoo. The “tattoo” would last for a specified length of time, probably six months,
before needing to be refreshed.
•To get glucose readings, the patient would wear a monitor that shines near-infrared light on the
tattoo and detects the resulting fluorescence.
3D Printing For Health – Disease

29. The US Army
is working on a 3-D printer that is interfaced with the soldier. And that sensor can deliver
information to the computer software and then they would be able to have either powdered or
liquid matrices that are very nutrient dense, that they have on demand that they can take and
eat immediately to fill that need."
3D Printing For Fighting Malnutrition

30. Imagine a device attached to the mobile phone that
pinpoint the existence of the RNA strand for Ebola and
display preliminary results.
Its Already Available
Rapid Disease Testing ?

31. Smart Cities

32. Drones
Delivery of Health care items: Medicines
Agriculture :Monitoring of crops , tracking and monitoring
Landscape mapping and collecting of Data

33. Drones
I found a project I think is a testament to what can be achieved with the right type of thinking
where drones are concerned A Radical But Possible Plan to Connect African Nations With
Cargo Drones
Future Africa initiative at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Augmenting the road networks in Africa by
•Building first cargo robot route in Africa by 2016.
•It will be about 80 kilometres long and will connect several towns and villages.
•The first use case will be to fly units of blood from a blood bank to health clinics.

34. ??
Maybe you are asking
All these ideas sound great
but really with cost and issues with
energy and availability, they are not
really applicable to West Africa!!

35. 10 Dollar iPhone?
• Ah, the relentless pace of Moore's Law... Take any 'super phone' of today:
iPhone 4, Nokia N8, Samsung Galaxy, Blackberry Bold, or whatever is your
favorite
• Summer 2010: unsubsidized price of: US $600 gave you touch screen, 3G, Wi-Fi,
GPS, 8mp & flash
• Winter 2011, same phone would cost $300
• Summer 2013: $150; winter 2014: $75 ,summer of 2016: $38; winter 2017: $19
• By summer 2019 cost of same specs of what was considered super phone in
2010 would be $10 (including distribution, marketing & profit)
Example :JiaYu G2F: 4.3inch ,touch screen, 3G,WiFi, GPS, 8mpcamera. Launched
May 2014 Cost US$81 (499 RMB)
Projection: TomiAhonen Consulting July 2010

36. Just Remember
Just Remember
3D printers : Togo based maker space WoeLab Presented built 3D printer using E-
Waste from some of the largest dumps of old computer and electronic
equipment it sent ripples through the entire 3D printing and global community.
The 3D printer cost 100 USD
Smart phones , we have already touched on it , Moores law means we will be
seeing the 10USD smart phone
Paper/conductive ink : local innovation challenges and engagements are ways of
finding cheap alternative solutions . The World bank is currently running the
Negawatt challenge , for innovative solutions for energy within Africa pitting
Ghana against Kenya and Egypt
Drones : The DIY Makerfaire movement across Africa is ripe for working with
developmental partners into finding cheap alternatives to building solutions

37. Just Remember
Just Remember
3D printers : Togo based maker space WoeLab Presented built 3D printer using E-
Waste from some of the largest dumps of old computer and electronic
equipment it sent ripples through the entire 3D printing and global community.
The 3D printer cost 100 USD
Smart phones , we have already touched on it , Moores law means we will be
seeing the 10USD smart phone
Paper/conductive ink : local innovation challenges and engagements are ways of
finding cheap alternative solutions . The World bank is currently running the
Negawatt challenge , for innovative solutions for energy within Africa pitting
Ghana against Kenya and Egypt
Drones : The DIY Makerfaire movement across Africa is ripe for working with
developmental partners into finding cheap alternatives to building solutions

38. In 1998 …
oMaternal Health
oMobile ?
oLiberalization
oToo Poor
Remember
Technology Partner To The World’s Non-profits

39. The combination of cheap Nokia mobile, liberalization of
telecom licenses and pre paid payment, steeped the
trajectory for mobile
GSMA :500 million mark in Q1 2013, increasing by about 20%
year-on-year. Connections are expected to grow by a further
50% (250 million connections) over the next five years
Even telecoms underestimated the market. The business plan
for the Kenyan telecom Safaricom in 2003 was to have
500,000 mobile phone subscribers by 2013: traders, priests,
taxi drivers, prostitutes—people willing to pay a premium to
stay in touch. Safaricom hit 21 million users in 2014
Between 1998-2000, this happened

40. The growth was soo dramatic that ITU Secretary-General, Yoshio UTSUMI,
at the ITU Telecom Africa Forum Opening12 November 2001 proposed
changing definition of universal access where
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ?
Establishing new targets
New definitions of universal access
Old definitions >>>>>>
 Universal access: >>>
 A telephone within walking distance
 Telecentres in every community
 Universal service: >>>>
 A telephone in every home
 A computer in every school
 Affordability: >>>>>>>>
 Subsidised access (high usage charges
subsidise low line rental)
New definitions
 Universal access:
 Mobile coverage of all main population
centres
 Internet cafés in every community
 Universal service:
 A mobile phone for everyone who wants
one
 An email address for every citizen
 Affordability:
 Pre-paid access
(pre-paid usage charges include line
rental)

41. We are Africa , Don’t Underestimate us