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Innovation in Africa

Posted: August 20th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Innovation | 1 Comment »

In Africa and other developing regions electricity is not always a guarantee so these bicycle mounted phone chargers from globalcyclesolutions.com are making a big difference. The dynamo isn’t new but this is a new application and it has spawned quite an enterprise. It’s interesting that their two products right now are a mobile phone charger and a Maise Sheller that “Can fill a 90-kg sack of maize in 40 minutes and 10-15 sacks per day”. Innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, it happens in context to the world around us, in other words innovation is often quite a local phenomena.

I do feel that local entrepreneurship and innovation are tremendously valuable in the developing world right now and can really help lift up communities.

There is a documentary called “Young World Inventors” on kickstarter right now that is worth supporting that covers inventions and inventors in the developing world.

  • Mitch Rodriguez

    This is a very good innovation for a better Africa. People should shout out and use their heads to create useful and great tools to make life easier.