Emerging Innovation

Emerging Innovation tells the stories of innovative businesses, their founders and their teams in Africa, Asia and beyond. A Carthage Global project.

[Emerging Innovation @emerginnv]

Why the elusive VC money is not really a prerequisite... Start with a product that customers really want, can afford to pay for, and deliver, deliver, deliver! The rest is history. #MondayMotivation https://t.co/H2udS5EiWt

[Ogunte @ogunte]

Meet 10 Kickass Black Female VCs who are investing in entrepreneurs from all demographics but cast their net wider. These talented trailblazers have the ability to spot non-obvious deals that other VCs may miss at the early stage. https://t.co/OJRKvp0MBE #impactwomen #impinv

[Waihiga Mwaura @WaihigaMwaura]

When will Africa hold an Africa conference to invest in itself after everyone else including Russia, India, Turkey, UK, EU, USA & China have had a go at the continent🙄 Am I making sense?

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali.

#NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Renowned economist Dambisa Moyo spoke to @AJHeadtoHead on why Western democracy is in crisis and how she plans to fix it https://t.co/aBSG5e3M2J #DemocracyDay

[Ignitia Ltd @IgnitiaWeather]

What makes a country ready to implement a good agricultural transformation plan? https://t.co/h97EKdESHu

[Practical Answers @PracticalAnswer]

In regions Bangladesh, women "grow" fish in their local ponds using an ingeniously designed cage – and feeding them on nothing more than scraps and #waste
Read more on our document on designing and constructing low-cost #fish cages in #Bangladesh.
https://t.co/8mBq5Ee6Oo

[Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @climateploy]

How many children get #asthma by inhaling traffic fumes worldwide? 1.5 years ago, I set out to answer this question w/ @SusanAnenberg, Mike Brauer, and Perry Hystad. Yesterday, our open-access study was published in @TheLancetPlanet -- THREAD 1/n https://t.co/yXXjsXDLNJ

[Patrick Awuah Jr @PatrickAwuahJr]

It took a lot of courage from a lot of people to build Ashesi. And it will take a lot of courage from a lot more people to carry the mission forward - to build the transformed Africa, that we seek. #atAshesi

[NBA @NBA]

On a landmark day for the NBA in Africa, a powerful video on how sports make a difference. @NBA_Africa

[Rachel Strohm @RachelStrohm]

Check out this great list of 48 notable African books of 2018 from @brittlepaper https://t.co/O3MJho1eKG

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

As the year winds down and we look toward 2019, I’m asking you to make a commitment: find something you want to change in your community and take the first step toward changing it. If you need some inspiration, take a look at some of the young leaders who inspired me this year.

[Macky Sall @Macky_Sall]

C'est avec un grand honneur que le Sénégal a accueilli le premier #ForumGalien en Afrique. Réunir les experts de la santé, notamment autour des problématiques spécifiques à l'Afrique, est indispensable pour déployer des réponses adaptées aux besoins de nos populations.

[Quartz @qz]

These designers are forcing the world to rethink what African furniture should look like https://t.co/QruDSIDOzU

[StanceGrounded @_SJPeace_]

They saw a lady paying for her gas with pennies and he gave her some money. Not knowing she had just lost her husband and was having a tough time.

WE NEED MORE OF THIS

HEROES

RETWEET THIS!

[Patrick Awuah Jr @PatrickAwuahJr]

Extremely grateful for the work the @McNultyPrize is doing to further the work of so many brilliant people and organisations around the world. Congratulations @highresolves!

[Camila Pazos Fajardo (ella/she) @cpazosfajardo]

Good luck to everyone who’s finishing their @echoinggreen application this weekend! Remember: you’re the expert and you’ve got this. Submit before the Oct. 30 at 2pm (14:00) EST deadline!

[Lynette Ntuli @MsNtuli]

This Global #Entrepreneurship Week I would rather we did not speak on entrepreneurship, but act on it. Pay suppliers. Direct business to local SME’s with potential. Track our ED and SD spend. Invite others to the opportunity table. Challenge our supply chain practices. #GEW2018

[Sanusi Ohiare, PhD @Sohiare]

If you are in London 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, let’s meet at Westminster this evening for a chat about REA’s Scorecard under PMB. If you are in Lagos 🇳🇬, kindly attend the commissioning of our Sura market 1.5MW Electrification project this afternoon.

[Diana Nambatya Nsubuga @NsubugaDiana]

Uganda Minister of Health, @Dr.@JaneRuth_Aceng named Ambassador of Community Health at the 2018 Primary Health Care Conference, #Astana2018, @Living_Goods @LizJarmanLG

[Farming First @farmingfirst]

Only seven of 49 countries in sub-Saharan #Africa have consistently met their pledge to spend 10% of national budgets on #agriculture.

#Ghana, which currently spends around 10% of its national budget on agriculture, has succeeded in halving #hunger .

#InvestInNutrition