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2019 Cohort

Neo Hutiri, South Africa, WINNER, Pelebox Smart Lockers

Pelebox is a smart locker system designed for public healthcare facilities to dispense chronic medicine to regular patients, cutting down on long queues and easing pressure on clinic resources.

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Chukwunonso Arinze, Nigeria, FINALIST, KAOSHI

KAOSHI is a mobile app that connects money senders across the globe. The app facilitates a peer to peer money swap, circumventing the need to literally send money across borders.

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Roy Allela, Kenya, FINALIST, Sign-IO

Sign-IO combines a mobile app with smart gloves that track and translate sign language movements into speech in real time.

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Anne K. Rweyora, Uganda, FINALIST, Smart Havens Africa

Smart Havens Africa are sustainable, smart homes built from appropriate but affordable technologies, geared towards making home ownership more accessible to African women.

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Professor Dele Sanni, Nigeria, 3-D-3-P Industrial dryer

The 3-D-3-P dryer is a simple system that dries grains and cereals using conduction rather than hot air, conventionally used in industrial dryers.

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Muzalema Mwanza, Zambia, Baby Delivery Kits

The Baby Delivery Kit is a simple but well researched kit of tools for midwives in Zambia delivering babies in under-resourced clinics, or at home births.

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Collince Oluoch, Kenya, Chanjoplus

Chanjoplus is an online system that helps parents and health-care workers track vaccines, ensuring children get access to life-saving medicine.

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Kenneth Guantai, Kenya, Elo-cart self-charging electric hand cart

Guantai’s self-charging electric hand carts run on batteries that are powered by the excess energy produced by their very own rotating wheels.

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Dr Lukas du Plessis, South Africa, Hybrid five-axis machine tool

Du Plessis’s hybrid machine tool works on five axes to allow users to shape, cut, grind, shear and otherwise form metals and hard materials with more precision.

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James Ochuka, Kenya, JuaKaliSmart

JuaKaliSmart is an online store designed specifically to help informal artisans in Kenya deal directly with customers.

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Beth Koigi, Kenya, Majik Water

Majik Water harvests moisture from the air to provide affordable, clean drinking water to off-grid communities.

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George Chege, Kenya, Smart Brooder

Smart Brooder is an intelligent energy management system to automate chicken coops, giving farmers more freedom and peace of mind.

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Safiatou Nana, Burkina Faso, SolarKoodo

SolarKoodo is a movable solar water pumping system that helps smallholder farmers to pull water from boreholes in off-grid regions where water tables drop very low.

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Paul Matovu, Uganda, The Vertical Farm

The Vertical Farm is an easy-to-build wooden farm-in-a-box designed to capitalise on waste in urban areas.

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Dr Obi Igbokwe, Nigeria, WellNewMe

WellNewMe is an assessment tool that uses algorithms to analyse users’ risks of contracting non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension.

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Elizabeth Kperrun, Nigeria, Zenafri

Zenafri is a series of mobile apps that teach toddlers and young children basic numeracy and literacy in their own language.

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