The stage is being set for an emerging fshion industry, characterised by more job opportunities for young African designers and interested parties, in a few years to come. ” … Read more
4 years ago the Founder of SkillStudy founded The Centre for Entrepreneurship Leadership & Business Development (CELBMD) Africa to provide world class professional skills to Africans in the areas of employability, workplace efficiency, enterprise development, leadership and technology. CELBMD Africa have been able to train and equip 8750+ in 26 African countries with relevant skills but now we want to leverage on web & mobile app technology to do more in this area and with speed and … Read more
The value proposition is divided in two: Local skilled craftsmen who gets a tool to earn money, and citizen who can easily find someone who can repair their broken items, so the don't have to buy new. NetRepair takes a commission fee for every transaction made via the platform IT Developer, UX-designer, Capital to promote. Networking in local communities and taking part in start-up workshops like SIRCle. We do not provide a product. NetRepair is a simple and intelligent … Read more
We reuse and upcycle coffee grounds and inoculate it with mycelium from oyster mushrooms. This root-like network can absorb nutrients from the coffee grounds and use them to produce oyster mushrooms that have both medical and culinary benefits. This creates a valuable food source that can be grown in all areas of the world, thereby creating a local and sustainable alternative to meat or as an umami tasting ingredient in many dishes. Mushrooms like oysters can be grown on nearly all wood-like … Read more
This is an implant that is efficient in reducing the amount of firewood fuel used in cooking and also the smoke which has serious health implications of the women who cook in the kitchen. This targets women in rural areas who use traditional cookstoves and the urban poor who use firewood as fuel for their traditional stoves are the primary beneficiaries of this implant. The empress is very efficient and simple implant used for traditional rounded clay stoves which uses firewood … Read more
We educate the public about proper disposal of waste in their communities , furthermore, students, individuals and communities received our product. We also market sanitation to the general public through the products we produce. The main beneficiaries are students, women, officers benefits from our products (school bags, laptops bags, dustbins and tarpaulins). Currently we finance the product and services ourselves thus the founders (Yeboah Paul) such as the demonstration center, sewing … Read more
Eco Domos, contrucciones de domos geodésicos de manera participativa integrando técnicas de Bioconstrucciòn en contexto permacultural, donde hemospodido levantar estas contrucciones para sedes sociales incorporando un trabajo en contexto de emergencias post catastrofes. … Read more
Como una solución al problema del suministro de agua después de un desastre natural, Andreas Froese, Director del Centro de Permacultura ECOTEC, capacita para la construcción de tanques de emergencia para almacenar agua utilizando botellas de PET. … Read more
Sistema de captación de agua proveniente de niebla por procesos de condensación, con un sistema de recolección con mallas plásticas sin que sean requeridas fuentes adicionales de energía. … Read more
Con estos productos elaborados con materiales locales, pigmentos naturales y cal de alta pureza producidos en México, ECOTEC ha logrado la producción de revoques ecológicos de fácil aplicación que aportan a la salud y al bienestar humano así como a una mejor relación con la naturaleza. … Read more
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