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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 broad 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 astonishing African innovative ideas.

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? On the continent, in Diaspora? You are most welcome to join this common effort to disseminate Africa's novel solutions for a better world! To that end, check the #MeToDo on how to input new information pages. For other inquiries, feel free to get in touch via systemdafrica [at] gmail [dot] com.

Le saviez vous ?
DYK? The Next Einstein Forum just launched the Scientific African Journal, a multidisciplinary and peer reviewed research journal for Africa!

DYK? A new GSMA study found that there are 442 active tech hubs on the African continent !

DYK? The 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report requests your inputs in four major areas: (1) interactions among SDGs and their targets, (2) transformation pathways towards sustainable development; (3) looking beyond the SDGs (major issues identified by research which are not explicitly taken into account in the SDGs), and (4) the role of science for sustainable development.