The STIKS programme hosted two Master’s students, Ludvig Söderbom and Sanjidul Huda from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden .
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The VFP fellowships offer opportunities for PhD and postdoctoral students from low income and low-middle income African countries.
How can Science Granting Councils (SGCs) become more effective boundary managers through improved use of evidence and data?
The World Bank has commissioned ACTS and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to conduct a baseline study on the cooling and cold chain sector in Kenya and Malawi.
The seminar provided an ideal platform for experts to share their work and expertise with special focus on science, technology and innovation and how they are aligned with SDGs.
ACTS has been commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to map out the innovation ecosystem in Kenya.
The initiative seeks to upscale fabrication of solar dyers and support solar drying as a service in Kenya.
The digital economy is increasingly becoming a key driver in the global economy. It is projected that by 2026, it will account for 25% of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), up from 15.5 % in 2016.
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and the Seeding The Future Foundation announced 2021 winners for the inaugural Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge.
Press Release - 15th November 2021
A team of research experts from ACTS are part of a project working towards exploring alternative methods of pursuing knowledge with a view to making them more suited to wider application without necessarily losing on scientific rigor.
ACTS is implementing a project on Multihazard Urban Disaster Risk Transitions that focuses on disaster risk management interventions and capacity building in Nairobi, Kenya.
Why Digital Economy?
The world is on the edge of a technological revolution that will disrupt the way we live, work and socialize.
The College will work closely with other networks to identify and implement joint projects, deliberate on emerging technologies and how they can be deployed to enhance productive capacities in different areas.
Creating a sustainable research culture in computer science targeting agriculture, health, finance and transport is a fundamental pillar towards making Kenya become a high middle income economy.
This 5 years Trilateral Chair program is being implemented by ACTS in partnership with the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and the University of Sussex.
ACTS has teamed up with training and research institutions to develop market-driven climate change training modules for different cadres and levels of education in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region.
The African Network on Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems (AfricaLics) is a research and capacity building network with a Secretariat hosted by ACTS.
A new book - Building Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Industrialization: Renewable Electrification in Developing Economies - has been published. It is edited by Rasmus Lema, Margrethe Holm Andersen, Rebecca Hanlin and Charles Nzila.
ACTS in collaboration with Birmingham and London Southern Bank University is implementing a community based cooling project to stem post-harvest losses in Kenya. The hubs will also be used to store animal and human vaccines. The project covers dairy farming in Kiambu, horticulture in Kitui and fish farming in Homabay counties.
ACTS, in collaboration with Loughborough University, has been implementing the Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) project over the last one and half years. The project aims how to rapidly accelerate a transition from biomass to genuinely clean cooking.
The Science Granting Council Initiative (SGCI) coordinated by ACTS started in 2015 and aims to strengthen the capacities of science granting councils (SGCs) in sub-Saharan Africa in order to support research and evidence-based policies that will contribute to the continent’s economic and social development.
A seminar series on knowledge and innovation for development in honor of Prof. Juma, the founder of ACTS, was successfully launched on 12th August 2021.
A scholarship program to foster and nurture talent in responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in African public universities will be officially launched on Tuesday August 31st, 2021. The scholarship will be awarded to successful registered PhD students (4 female and 4 male), two each from the 4 regions of the Sub-Saharan Africa. Please use this link to register for the launch.
Science, Technology and innovation (STI) are considered the key cogs in the engine of sustainable socio-economic development. And for developing counties - especially in Africa – to fast-track and sustain industrialization - and accelerate socio-economic progress - more attention and resources must be devoted to these key areas.
We are pleased to announce the upcoming publication of Building Science Systems by Dr. Rebecca Hanlin and Dr. Aschalew Tigabu with colleagues as part of SGCI Africa. The book argues that African governments are at a turning point with science systems and continue work to move beyond only science as research and innovation to encapsulate all forms of knowledge, technology and innovation.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Office for Eastern Africa, the National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) and the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) recognise that the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (the “SDGs”) requires a concerted alliance between inter-governmental organisations, governments, non-governmental organisations and private sector entities.
African scholars have been urged to embrace innovation and transformative thinking in pursuing research to provide answers to critical issues affecting the continent to unlock Africa’s potential on its Sustainable Development prospects.
Kenya’s top climate think tank has partnered with a British university to drive policies to tackle climate change. The Africa Centre for Technology Studies and the University of Sussex have developed a mechanism to enable African countries to tap into the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the global fund for innovators tackling climate change.
The United Kingdom (UK) Commonwealth Scholarship Commission is sponsoring 10 Scholarships for the UK Open University Master of Science in Environmental Management. This is a three year distance learning course, which commences in November 2020. The course is taught by the Open University, UK and managed locally by the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS).
The University of Rwanda (UR) in partnership with the African Center for Technology Studies (ACTS) held a one day applied workshop at University of Rwanda on the 25th of July, 2018 to mark the inception of the Knowledge Systems Innovation (KSI) project.
By Nora Ndege
A stakeholders workshop organised by the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) and the University of Nairobi was held at the Sarova Panafric hotel on the 29th of June, 2018 to mark the inception of the Knowledge Systems Innovation ‘KSI’ project.
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