The Smart Brooder is an environmental controller that assists farmers in automatically monitoring and controlling their chicken coops. It reduces reliance on charcoal as a source of heat and encourages the use of infrared bulbs, which are highly efficient and have minimal impacts on the environment.
The Biogas Milk Chiller by SimGas enables off-grid dairy farmers to store, deliver, and sell the highest possible quantity of milk. Milk is kept cool over night until it is delivered/sold the next day. This decreases milk spoilage and increases income potential for dairy farmers.
Bentos Fuels is an innovative process of recycling harvested water hyacinth, which is an invasive plant species, and mixing it with paper sludge and charred waste biomass. This innovations produces a unique resin extruded into smokeless charcoal briquettes that are efficient and affordable.
Musana Cart provides the tools and support to street vendors to achieve a clean, sustainable, and dependable work environment. It incorporates a solar panel in the canopy, which provides vendor with light in the evenings while replacing kerosene lamps. It also replaces charcoal for cooking with a more efficient, eco-friendly alternative fuel.
PedalTap is a no-touch, cost-effective, water-dispensing system actuated by a foot-pedal. It can be connected to any tap system and is designed to reduce the spread and frequency of infectious diseases in public spaces.
Majik Water is creating a new source of affordable, safe, and accessible drinking water to people in the world's driest places. It uses cutting-edge technology combined with locally-adapted design to harvest water from the atmosphere and deliver it to communities that need it most.
The Vegetation Chopping Machine chops maize stalks, twigs, and grass for longer term storage of livestock feed. It helps provide feed during the dry season when there is little or no pasture and improves the living standards of small-scale farmers and the livestock on which they depend.
Lumenda is an affordable and portable device for rapid and accurate diagnosis of neonatal bacterial meningitis in low-resource settings. It is designed to save the lives of thousands of neonates each year who are not treated properly due to the high cost of diagnosis.
The Artificial Intelligent Blind Stick is a smart electronic walking stick designed to assist the blind. It allows users to navigate without hindrances from obstacles and provides communications via earphones and a vibrating grip.
Responsible for content development via data framework design and normalization for solutions presented on the Engineering for Change Solutions Library platform focusing on the Transport Solutions.
Mariela is a telecommunications engineer with a Master of Science in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and MPA in Development Practice from Columbia University. In her role as Program Manager at E4C, she leads ICT4D initiatives and partnerships across all programs and supports strategic planning, implementation, and management of E4C programs in the Engineering for global development space.
As ISHOW Lead, James has been a strong proponent of social innovations, lean startups, hardware, research, and entrepreneurship since 2011.
2017 ISHOW Finalist. 2018 ISHOW Winner. 2019 ISHOW Judge. Co-founder and technical lead of Arinifu Technologies, which created the Smart Brooder, an environmental control device that ensures conditions for brooding chickens are kept within optimal levels.
A mechanical engineer with years of experience in product development from ideation to physical products. Have experience in both sustainable development and automotive industry.
A Mechatronic engineer enthusiastic about tailoring tech solutions to improve the community. Has won awards in the innovation space and helped shape ideas into market products. Loves to
Experienced Corporate Social Responsibility professional with specialized expertise in building programs that enable the nonprofit / NGO sector to leverage technology to scale and accelerate social impact. Previously built and managed software products for the Nonprofit and Corporate Sectors.
Beatrice is a systems leader experienced in healthcare, startups, digital technology, big data, and analytics. She is passionate about creating and applying digital solutions to strengthen healthcare services in emerging markets and to progress the larger UN SDGs. Beatrice is actively involved in the Women in Technology scene in Africa and Europe. She is a medical doctor and a certified Project Management Professional, with an International MBA and Master Business Analytics & Big Data from IE Business School, Spain.
Jerioth is the Program lead at Mercy Corps managing the Google.org funded Youth Impact Labs and DFID funded Kenya Catalytic Jobs Fund programs. Jerioth is passionate about supporting innovations that are testing solutions to job creation at scale. She currently supports innovators by providing a mix of grant funding, equity funding, and customized technical assistance. Previously, Jerioth worked as a management consultant supporting social enterprises to develop their strategies and raise funds from private equity funders.
Robert serves as the CEO, Villgro Kenya where he is spearheading the replication of the Villgro incubation model of social entrepreneurship and impact investment in the healthcare and life sciences industry. He has over 10 years of experience in global health R&D as a biomedical scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) where he discovered his passion for impacting peoples’ lives through science and innovation.
Adam is a product designer who specializes in concept development, from sketch ideation through functional prototype. With backgrounds in Product Design and Sociology, he's driven to solve real-world problems and create meaningful experiences by reimagining the way people connect with product.
Gearbox is located in Nairobi's industrial area and the makerspace provides a network of like-minded individuals and businesses with the know-how and resources that enable you to take your innovation to market. Dr. Kamau holds a U.S. patent in electronic materials and has published 27 scientific papers on technology and innovation.
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