Foresight Africa Blog

A Summary of the Regulatory Framework on TV White Spaces in Kenya

By Leonard Mabele, CB4ICT Project

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) – Kenya’s National Regulatory Authority (NRA), has been deeply engaged on studies to validate the draft of the regulatory framework for Television White Spaces (TVWS) in the country. These studies were spearhead by researchers within the country led by Strathmore University and working with international partners as well.

The future of AI and Cybersecurity: A focus at Generation Z and Generation ALPHA

By Erick O. Otieno, CB4ICTD Project

Information security and cybersecurity have been used synonymously in the context of information systems security management. It is, however, very common to hear the word cybersecurity being floated in almost every discussion in the information systems world. For this blog, we shall consider cybersecurity and information security to mean the same thing.

Climate Information Communication for Local Adaptations: Policy Dialogue

The exchange of climate information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium, messaged in a practical and useful context contributes to climate communication. This has become increasingly vital in translating science and research, into practice and policy.Timely delivery and access of climate information, and how it is received, becomes important in management of drought, floods, pests, and effects of diseases.

Nairobi Disaster Risk Hub signs an MoU with the Nairobi City Government

By Victoria Chengo and Joanes Atela, ACTS

On 6th May 2019 during the official launch of the ‘Nairobi Disaster Risk Hub’ under the ‘Multi Hazard Urban Disaster Risks Transitions’ project, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Nairobi Risk Hub – hosted at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) and the Nairobi City County Government (NCCG) was signed.

LCT project dissemination workshop – clean cooking technologies

By Mourine Chepkemoi, ACTS

The Next Generation of Low-cost Energy-efficient Products for the Bottom of the Pyramid (known as the LCT project) comes to an end in July 2018. To mark this occasion, the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) organized a dissemination workshop on 17th July 2018 at ICIPE Duduville Campus, Nairobi.

Why I do what I am doing

By Dr Sandeep Napa, Project Manager, Institute for Transformative Technologies (ITT) - Low Cost Technologies Project

My parents brought us up in a home of generosity. While I had always been interested in social change, I didn’t do much until my final year of medical school. After surviving a near fatal car accident with a friend, my outlook on life changed. I realized that the support and choices that we had, were not available to most patients at our hospital.

Mainstreaming NDCs in SDGs: the role of national innovation systems

By Dr. Joanes Atela, ACTS

Acknowledgement: This blog was written with the aid of a grant from the International Development Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada. The 22nd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change which took place on 7th - 22nd November 2016 came on the back of a series of climate negotiations over the last two decades.

3D Printing and the Policy Implications

Some thoughts for the Policy Landscape on IP

By Prof Berhanu Abegaz, The African Academy of Sciences(AAS) and Hailemichael Teshome Demissie, PhD, ACTS.

Additive manufacturing, popularly known by the colloquial ‘3D printing’, is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file by laying down successive layers of material until the entire object is created.

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