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AFRICA 4 TECH
1ST OPEN INNOVATION BOOTCAMP
Marrakesh, Nov. 2-4 2016

Agrotech Workshops

How can the African leapfrog help accelerate the global transformation of the agriculture sector ?

 

AGROTECH PRE-CONFERENCE PAPER

Pre-Conference papers are freely available to the entire community to show the impact of digital & mobile innovation in Africa in crucial sectors like education, agriculture, energy & health.

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IDENTIFIED AGROTECH CHALLENGES

For several months, A4T community of experts and consultants worked on identifying, searching & crunching data in order to source the challenges to be solved by the teams of participants during the bootcamp Africa 4 Tech. Find out the Edtech Challenges here :

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WORKSHOP RESULTS

During the bootcamp Africa 4 Tech, several teams of entrepreneurs, young techs talents (developers, creative technologists, data scientists ... ) and scientists worked together to solve pre-identified challenges by creating practical tech innovations, in a frugal, agile and collaborative way.
The results of these works are protected by Creative Commons licenses in order to enhance collective intelligence. Open-source communities, developers, start-up and corporations are invited to draw beyond these seeds and image together the world of tomorrow !

Food distribution & nutrition

During this workshop, the participants designed a solution to tackle issues regarding agricultural products distribution in Africa in the form of agro-clusters.

Water management & Agricultural processes

The participants of this workshop came up with a solution to tackle water management problems in Africa through a digital and mobile phone controlled solar irrigation system.

Reforestation & Drones

During this workshop, the participants developed solutions that allow drones to detect intrusions in the forest and replant seeds in order to fight against deforestation.

Watch the showreel of the GreenWings App