1. African Innovations
Peter, Doug, Ryan

2. The Problem: Information Mismatch
Despite having more data than ever, governments and NGOs misallocate resources during crises and hurt the very people they try to help
If only data could be crowdsourced..

3. The Solution: Ushahidi
“Testimony”
Crowdsourced incident reporting
Data aggregation

4. The Problem: Lagging Access to Power
Over 600 million Sub-Saharan Africans (68% of pop.) w/out access to electricity
Underdeveloped power infrastructure
High upfront installation costs
High costs to connect each household (recall Symposium speaker: $300 to connect one family in areas where annual income ~$600)
Existing infrastructure is unreliable

5. Off Grid Electric: affordable solar power in rural Tanzania and Rwanda
Provide roof-mounted solar panel system and rechargeable lithium batteries that provide consistent electricity
Instal system for $0.10, then users pay $7 a month for three months, whereupon they own it
Payments collected via mobile phone transactions
Already service over 125,000 households, employ over people, and create 40+ new jobs each month via in-house recruitment and training at ZOLA Electric Academy
Offer solar power package to small businesses
Recently signed deal with EDF Electric to expand to
Ivory Coast; pledge to hit 2 million users by 2020

6. The Problem: Lack of Access to Cardiologists
Cameroon is home to over 22 million people, but fewer than 50 cardiologists
Potential Patients in Africa:
One in two people over the age of 25 have hypertension
20 million Africans suffer from cardiovascular disease
80 million have abnormally high blood pressure
-Additionally, most of these cardiologists are located in the big cities of Younde and and Douala
-And, in fact, by 2020, non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes will account for 70 percent of fatalities in developing countries.

7. The Solution: Cardiopad
Engineer Arthur Zang designed the Cardiopad to conduct cardiac tests such as electrocardiograms in remote locations, sending the results to cardiologists in city centers often hundreds of miles away.
The Cardiopad costs $2,700, a fraction of the cost of similar commercially available, less portable devices
Designed for Africa: The device is humidity-resistant and easy for health-care providers to read and manipulate.
“The basis of innovation often comes from a desire to solve other people's’ problems.”

8. Innovations Compared On the basis of aggregate impact:
Off Grid Electric
2. Ushahidi
3. Cardiopad