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6 Tapping into Grassroots Initiatives and Entrepreneurs
Pages 53-56

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... • African innovators are doing impressive things in their local communities, but for the most part they are not connecting with one another to produce bigger impacts. (Oranye)
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... His mission over the past 5 years has been to chronicle the lives of innovators changing the landscape in the health and other sectors of the economy as a means of highlighting the enormous potential of African workers and bring them together with partners who can help them grow. When asked to address some of the trends in the innovation space in Africa that the rest of the world should pay attention to, Oranye said that African innovators are doing impressive things in their local communities, but for the most part they are not connecting with one another to produce bigger impacts.
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... The real challenge, he said, is getting access to opportunities and growth markets, and the best opportunity for getting that access is by finding partners with a bigger footprint across the continent or to work with an organization such as PATH that can help make connections with suitable partners. He noted that Silicon Valley has become interested in Africa and in finding partners who have promising technologies and need help with scaling.
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... Toward that end, Oranye is developing a heat map of the innovators in the health sector and supportive services space. He is also trying to change the way foreign aid works with innovators, which typically involves coming in with a preconceived solution that might work as opposed to presenting a problem and letting innovators present potential solutions.
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