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Category archives: Rural and agricultural innovation

Rural community with only one water tap receives Hippo water rollers

180 days ago
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Grant Gibbs
Hippo water roller
Hippo Water Roller Project
Innovations from South Africa
South African Inventions

Entrepreneurs
Featured Innovation Articles
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Innovation in Africa
Rural and agricultural innovation
South Africa

21 November 2012 This coming Friday Hippo Water Roller Project will be participating in the 5th ICAT - the International Conference on Appropriate Technology, in Pretoria. It was heart warming last week to see the Rietfontein community come together and take ownership of one hundred new ...

Schools coming up with innovative building ideas

243 days ago
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building
innovation
innovation in building
schools

For inventors and innovators
Rural and agricultural innovation
South Africa

Three South African schools have made the top 10 entries for the biennial AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture, which is aimed at recognising outstanding achievement in sustainable architecture as well as creating public awareness and debate about architectural issues. The schools ...

Climate Change Leadership Awards

480 days ago
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ABI
food and trees for africa
SAB
Sandton sun hotel

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Innovation in the media
Rural and agricultural innovation

Have you entered or nominated someone for the Climate Change Leadership Awards? Do it! Let's change the world together: ccla.co.za

Keeping the Cofisa Communities alive: Living Labs, an example of Rural Innovation, by Prof Marlien Herselman

532 days ago
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COFISA Conference
COFISA documents
Living Labs
LLisa
prof Marlien Herselman
RLabs
Rural Innovation
SiLL

COFISA documents
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Rural and agricultural innovation

Are you involved as co-creators of rural innovation in your respective communities?

Agribusiness and Innovation Systems in Africa

815 days ago
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african farmers
agribusiness
agricultural industries
agricultural innovation
agricultural innovations
agriculture
cassava
dairy board
dairy products
farmer cooperatives
farmers
farming
fish
food supply
innovation
maize
poultry
Rural Development
sunflower oil
Vegetables

Rural and agricultural innovation

Description: This book examines how agricultural innovation arises in four African countries – Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda – through the lens of agribusiness, public policies, and specific value chains for food staples, high value products, and livestock. Determinants of innovation ...

Cases of Financial Innovation in Africa

899 days ago
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Case Studies of Financial Innovation in Africa
Changing Perceptions of Business and Development
IDS Globalisation Team
Mark Napier

Rural and agricultural innovation

Mark Napier, an independent consultant, spoke on Case Studies of Financial Innovation in Africa 26 October 2010. The talk discussed the trends driving economic growth in Africa, the outlook for Africa's financial industry, why donors believe financial sector development matters and what ...

Part 3: Assessment of e-Local Government Projects in Egypt

910 days ago
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Corporate Innovation (Champions)
Information Technology & ICT
Rural and agricultural innovation

The Egyptian e-Government program started in 2001. After years of the inception and implementation of e-Government projects, an assessment of these projects was needed. Identification of proper evaluation framework and models and application to the projects would be presented. These are in ...

Part 2: Methods, tools and application of Business Process Modeling (BPM) and Re-engineering (BPR)

910 days ago
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All Africa Public Service Innovation Award
e-Local Government Development Project in Egypt
Hatem el kadi
Hisham Abdelsalam
Innovation in Service Delivery
The activities and evolution of the e-Local Government Development Projects (eLGDP) in Egypt

Corporate Innovation (Champions)
Information Technology & ICT
Rural and agricultural innovation

e-Government services is not only about the inclusion of ICT in the services delivery; business processes improvement is a main component of the activities involved, in order to reduce complexity and reduce delivery time. With the complexity of services processes, eLGDP identified the need to ...

Part 1: The activities and evolution of the e-Local Government Development Projects (eLGDP) in Egypt

910 days ago
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All Africa Public Service Innovation Award
e-Local Government Development Project in Egypt
Hatem el kadi
Hisham Abdelsalam
Innovation in Service Delivery
The activities and evolution of the e-Local Government Development Projects (eLGDP) in Egypt

Corporate Innovation (Champions)
Information Technology & ICT
Rural and agricultural innovation

The e-Local Government Development Project in Egypt is the winner of the All Africa Public Service Innovation Award in 2008, in the domain of Innovation in Service Delivery. The project aims at improving the municipal services delivery and the reduction of administrative corruption. It ...

Africa needs alternative Internet Model for Knowledge and Information Sharing

915 days ago
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innovation in ICT
Internet Model for Knowledge and Information Sharing

Information Technology & ICT
Rural and agricultural innovation

Source: Open Innovation Africa Summit A lot of funds have been spent by Governments and Donors in Africa in ICT development projects. Unfortunately, despite the huge inflows, African countries have been plagued with slow Internet connections, depriving the continent from competing favorably ...

The Virtual Market Place

949 days ago
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AECF
Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund
International Livestock Research Institute
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Virtual Market Plac
VMP
World Agroforestry Center

Rural and agricultural innovation

Article adapted from Innovation Africa The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) has built a Virtual Market Place (VMP), a web-based portal where research institutions showcase technologies they have available that are ready for uptake by the private sector. Companies can access ...

Africa needs a culture of science

949 days ago
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Innovation Africa
innovation in Africa
Oyeniyi Akande
Science and Technology
science culture in Africa

Rural and agricultural innovation
Social innovation

Article adapted from Innovation Africa The first step towards an African culture of science is to make science relevant to local people, says development expert Oyeniyi Akande. For science and technology to contribute to development goals, countries must embrace a ‘science culture’ — a ...

World Bank Launches New Tools to Empower Innovative Solutions to Development Challenges

949 days ago
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innovation
Open Data Catalog
Open Development
Open Knowledg
Robert B. Zoellick
The World Bank Group

International Innovation
Rural and agricultural innovation

WASHINGTON, October , 2010 —The World Bank Group is releasing a wide range of tools and technology applications to empower more collaborative and effective solutions to global challenges, as part of the institution’s commitment to “Open Development.” “We are working to make data analysis and ...

Broadband for all by Kobus Roux

1109 days ago
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broadband
COFISA Closing Conference

COFISA documents
Rural and agricultural innovation
Science and Technology

This slideshow was presented by Kobus Roux from the Meraka Institute at the COFISA Closing Conference in February 2010. Present Ccc01 Feb2010

Knowledge and Innovation for Rural Development (KIRD) Programme - Macubeni Local Action Group - by Kizito Nsanzya

1113 days ago
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COFISA Closing Conference
Kizito Nsanzya
Rural Innovation

COFISA documents
Rural and agricultural innovation

This was presented by Kizito Nsanzya from RULIV at the Cofisa Closing Conference on the 18th of February 2010. It was part of the "Rural Innovation: Bottom up Approaches to Empowering Rural Communities" session.macubenipresent_ccc19_feb2010

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