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Cloud computing can play a crucial role in helping African countries reach sustainable development.
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The sounds our ancestors made are important because they teach us about spaces and behaviour and rituals of the time.
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WhatsApp can amplify and complement a candidate’s ground campaign. But it cannot replace it.
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Over the past two decades digitisation has steadily transformed African farming.
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Quantum machine learning is an exciting, rapidly growing field.
Science academies have a crucial role to play in developing ways for scientists to engage more effectively.
Technology is only part of the solution to giving people access to sanitation.
In Ghana, backpackers often don't feel safe. Upgrading technology can solve this problem.
South Africa's White Paper doesn't outline how science, innovation and technology can improve ordinary people's lives.
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Taking a look at the interesting world of the South African Astronomical Observatory.
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Drones are being used to combat malaria in Zanzibar.
Gender biases are revealed in enrolment inequalities and policies that favour male students.
Kenyan-born Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, was passionate about finding solutions to Africa’s big challenges. He was…
African countries, like Nigeria and Ethiopia, increased their food production using a system-wide approach, and not the traditional reliance on isolated projects.
Three new HIV vaccine concepts which rely on high-tech designer proteins are being trialled to see if they can stop the virus.
Understanding where there are high numbers of new HIV infections is important to establishing whether interventions are working or not.
Creating a reliable, up to date land register is important for African countries. Drones can help collect and record the necessary data.
To get an effective vaccine for HIV/AIDS, scientists need to understand exactly how the virus works and immune system responds to it. African scientists have come one step closer.
Epidemiologists and public health managers are looking to complement indoor-based malaria solutions with those that focus on the outdoors. Drones are a crucial part of their armoury.
In a remarkable extension of technological leapfrogging, Somaliland will become the first country in the world to use iris recognition in a presidential election.
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University Twitter @Calestous, Harvard Kennedy School
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Tutorial Fellow, School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, University of Nairobi
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Associate Professor at the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, Co-ordinator of the South African SDG Hub, University of Pretoria
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PhD student, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP), Université de Lausanne
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Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Science and Consultant, Vice Principal for Research and Graduate Education, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
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Director, Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Medical Scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases; Research Associate at CAPRISA; Research Professor in the School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Business and Sustainable Development, University of Edinburgh
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Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Honorary Associate Professor in Medical Microbiology, University of Cape Town
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Reader and DST/NRF SARChI Chair of Virus-Host Dynamics, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, CAPRISA Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Independent Economist, University of Cape Town
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Senior Researcher in Urban Food Security and Food Systems, University of Cape Town
