M-Pesa: mobile money from Kenya
How a Kenyan phone service let millions of people without bank accounts send, save and receive money.
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Ushahidi: bearing witness with open-source maps
Built by Kenyan bloggers in 2008, Ushahidi turns reports from phones into live crisis maps used around the world.
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Medical drone deliveries in Rwanda
In 2016 Rwanda became the first country to run a national drone delivery service, flying blood to rural hospitals.
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Lake Turkana Wind Power
Africa’s largest wind farm: 365 turbines in northern Kenya supplying about 17% of the country’s electricity.