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3D-Printer? Drones? Blockchain? Marc Lepage is not the kind of guy who plays “buzz word” bingo. In an italian restaurant on the top floor of one of the many newly built skyscrapers in Addis Ababa, the Africa Knowledge and Innovation Advisor at UNDP in Ethiopia, talks down-to-earth. About egos preventing innovations develop their full potential, how the “developing aid world” might look in 2030, and why listening to young local people is smart and indispensable.

We don’t mean to exaggerate, but digitisation and the internet are THE driving forces of socio-technological development in our global community.

Smart cities are very much in fashion but it turns out that you have to be really smart to know what the term might mean.

Data for development – the collection, allocation and use of data for development aid (DA) – has in recent years become progressively more relevant.

Why should you care about what is happening in the developing world? Because improvements in technology infrastructure matter for all our livelihoods.

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In welchem Geschäftsmodell zündet Deine Idee: als klassische Non-Profit-Organisation oder als Social Business?

Warum sollte man sich darum kümmern, was sich in Entwicklungsländern abspielt? Weil Fortschritte in der technologischen Infrastruktur für unser aller Leben von Bedeutung sind.