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COVID-19 Innovation Response Analysis – Strengthening Sectoral Innovation Systems in Africa – (Health)

The COVID-19 pandemic demands a significant shift in how we live, work, and socialize. It has therefore made it necessary for society to prioritize innovation to meet immediate challenges caused by the pandemic. The ensuing response is also producing inspiring innovative solutions, catalysing the use of digital technologies, proving that necessity is indeed the mother […]

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The Role of Africa’s Eight RECs to Pave the Road towards Achieving AfCFTA’s Agreements.

In March 2018, Africa leaders met in Kigali and agreed to start the process of establishing an African continental free trade (AfCFTA), the world’s largest free trade area in terms of numbers of participating countries since the formation of the World Trade Organization. As of August 2020, there are 54 signatories and 30 nations have

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COVID-19 Innovation Response Analysis: Strengthening Sectoral Innovation Systems in Africa

The COVID-19 pandemic demands a significant shift in how we live, work and socialize. It has therefore made it necessary for society to prioritize innovation to meet immediate challenges caused by the pandemic. The ensuing response is also producing inspiring innovative solutions proving that necessity is indeed the mother of invention. COVID-19 has been the

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CcHUB Human-Centered Design Traineeship Practicum Experience in Solina

Many of the perennial problems we have in Africa are rooted in human interactions and activities. Most of these human activities are so complex, unstructured and informal, and are shaped by unique cultural and traditional heritage, that many of the solutions that address similar problems in western society may fail at achieving similar results here.

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The Call to Adventure – a Human-Centred Design Traineeship Experience

I’m Daberechukwu “Darbie” Nwandikom, a Medical Doctor from Nigeria and this is my CcHUB Design Traineeship experience.  The Call to Adventure April 2019, outside the House Officers quarters in Imo State University Teaching Hospital, I just finished my evening ward round and was sitting in silence with Dr Okey Amako who was busy scrolling through

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Embracing Human-Centered Design: My CcHUB Design Traineeship Experience

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. ” ~ Albert Einstein  Mindset or our way of thinking plays a major role in the way we will solve problems that we are faced with. Human-centred design is a process through which a designer or design team

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My Eventful Learning Path in the CcHUB DesignLab Traineeship – Fikayo

Last year while scrolling through twitter, I came across a tweet campaign about a design program, the requirements were simple: be of African descent and young. As a result, I thought, I literally have nothing to lose by applying as I was also feeling kind of dissatisfied with my job at the time. I took

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Can Social Media Be Used to Manage an Infodemic?

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently held the 1st WHO Infodemiology Conference – a series of 7 webinars that took place over 3 weeks from 29th June 2020. Infodemics, as defined by WHO, refers to an overabundance of information (some accurate and some not) occurring during an epidemic. Just like an epidemic, an infodemic spreads

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