Innovation and entrepreneurship

Futures Forge

African innovation, science and enterprise, past and present, and the people building what comes next.

Profiles describe real projects and people with their consent. Facts and figures carry their sources; where a claim is the organisation’s own, we say so.

Innovation case studyM-Pesa: mobile money from KenyaHow a Kenyan phone service let millions of people without bank accounts send, save and receive money.
Innovation case studyUshahidi: bearing witness with open-source mapsBuilt by Kenyan bloggers in 2008, Ushahidi turns reports from phones into live crisis maps used around the world.
Innovation case studyMedical drone deliveries in RwandaIn 2016 Rwanda became the first country to run a national drone delivery service, flying blood to rural hospitals.
Innovation case studyLake Turkana Wind PowerAfrica’s largest wind farm: 365 turbines in northern Kenya supplying about 17% of the country’s electricity.