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Wiki shares new African ideas for a better world

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This Wiki is a "learning by doing" experiment about the diffusion of African innovation. It is an online engine collecting, processing, and disseminating African knowledge, technological information, and innovation that can foster sustainable development on the continent. A central assumption underlying this project is that the transboundary and dynamic circulation of homegrown know-how is a key enabler to strengthen the innovation value chain for inclusive and sustainable continental industrialization. For that endeavor, the Wiki format appeared as the obvious vector as it is simple, web-based, and open access. A Wiki allows collaborative editing with instant publication worldwide. According to Ward Cunningham, inventor of the first Wiki software: “We don't know quite what [a “Wiki”] is, but we do know it's a fun way to communicate asynchronously across the network.” Wiki is hosted with Miraheze because it is free of charge, there are no ads, and it is 100% open source.

Sharing ideas, with a bias towards Africa, offers tremendous potential spillovers encompassing: EMULATE actors of the innovation cycle; REPLICATE best practices of sustainable development across regions; VALORIZE research and development (R&D) and innovation; ATTRACT international investors scouting novel practices; SHOWCASE African ingenuity and positive narratives; INSPIRE new types of cooperation. Wiki hopes to contribute to BOOST the innovation ecosystem and help spur knowledge-based societies towards a sustainable transformation of the continent.

WIIFM
What's in it for me? Discover stellar ideas that are African and innovative.

Call for collaboration
Wiki appeals to collective intelligence for the democratization of disruption. Are you an African incubator, research lab, tech hub? An individual academic, industrialist, entrepreneur, policy maker? On the continent, in Diaspora? You are most welcome to join this common effort to disseminate Africa's novel solutions for a better world! Check the #MeToDo on how to input new information and pages. For other inquiries, feel free to get in touch via systemdafrica [at] gmail [dot] com.

Le saviez vous ?
DYK? The inaugural issue of Scientific African is now out! Openly access high quality research from Africa online. DYK? Know someone who might have scientific equipment (still in good working order) to donate? The Seeding Labs flagship program Instrumental Access is looking for urgent equipment for labs that need it! DYK? @RachelStrohm maintains three lists of scholarships and grants for African academics : one for MA and PhD study in Anglophone countries, one for Francophone countries, and one for post-doctoral and research funding. If you know of other scholarship resources she should add here, please let her know!

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