INNOVATIVE VOICES

Lauréat du Next Einstein Forum 2018, et professeur de bio-informatique et d'intelligence artificielle à l'Université du Québec à Montréal, Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo est un expert de premier plan de l’intelligence artificielle, qui a suscité à la fois beaucoup d'intérêt et d'inquiétude au cours des derniers mois. Il décrypte pour nous cette technologie émergente, les opportunités qu’elle ouvre ainsi...

Chux Daniels chaired the expert panel in charge of the Mutual Learning Exercise on setting up and implementing R&I policies and strategies, co-organised by the PSF service and the UN Interagency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for the Sustainable Development Goals (UN IATT). He is a renowned specialist of STI policy and he recently published a book on Africa–Europe Cooperatio...

John Kamara is a Tech Entrepreneur. founder of Adanian Labs – an Artificial Intelligence- AI-, Blockchain, and Smart Technologies Venture Studio -, created in Kenya 3 years ago and now present in 5 African countries, with 35 startup incubated so far. He also founded the AI Center of Excellence (AICE). Pan-African by heart, he is one of Africa’s leading experts on how businesses can leverage emergi...

Entretien avec Arielle Kitio, une jeune camerounaise, doctorante en génie logiciel, fondatrice de CAYSTI, un centre de formation qui gère le projet tiers de PRICNAC, Impression 3D pour l’Education. Elle nous parle du numérique qu’elle entend rendre accessible et utile au plus grand nombre. Interview with Arielle Kitio, a young Cameroonian doctoral student in software engineering and founder of CAY...

Directrice de l’Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD), Cécile Martin-Phipps représente l'Organisation internationale de la francophonie à la 6ème édition du One Forest Summit, qui se déroule à Libreville, au Gabon, du 1er au 2 mars 2023. Ce sommet international, à l’initiative du Gabon et de la France, vise à faire progresser l’ambition collective des pays concernant la...

Agro-economist and programme specialist at the Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD), Lionelle Samnick has more than 20 years of experience in the management of sustainable development programmes, an experience deployed in more than 30 countries. For the past two years, she has been managing the PDTIE project (Deployment of Environmental Technologies and Innovations for...

Special International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Interview with Mané Seck, a young Senegalese scientist, PhD in applied physical sciences (Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, which manages a third-party project VALMEDTRA for VaRRIWA, an Innovation Fund-supported project) and winner of the international competition ‘ My thesis in 180 seconds’, Canada. Spéciale Journée internationale de...

Angelika Namdar is an urban and spatial planner with more than 25 years of experience in various fields relating to urban planning in different positions in Surinam, in the private and public sectors. Currently, she is a head lecturer in urban planning and environment at the University Anton de Kom University of Suriname, and she is also the director of the faculty of technology at the same univer...

Salome Bukachi is an associate professor in the Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. She has a background in anthropology specializing in medical anthropology, with over 30 years of experience in research in Africa, looking notably at issues of health, livestock, nutrition and water. All of these issues are impacted by climate change. We talk...

Nick Ishmael Perkins is a senior consultant with the International Science Council where he is currently running a programme called the Public Value of Science. Before this, he worked in research communication for almost 20 years, notably for the think tank “Institute of Development Studies”. And he has contributed largely todevelopmental communications, across a variety of sectors, from public he...

David Obura is director of CORDIO East Africa, a non-profit organisation that supports the sustainability of coral reefs and coastal ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean. Marine biologist by training, he is very well known in the coral reef science community for his work over the past 25 years on coral reef resilience, in particular to climate change, and the biogeography of the Indian Ocean. An...

Kwaku Antwi leads the Research, Policy, and Investment Cluster at the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA). He also leads the AIRTEA Project which is being implemented in partnership with ASARECA and EAFF and supported by the ACP Innovation Fund. This project aims to accelerate the transition toward resilient and sustainable food systems by strengthening science, innovation, and agribu...

Dhesigen Naidoo is the adaptation lead in the Presidential Climate Commission of South Africa and senior research associate to lead the Climate Risk and Human Security Programme at the Institute for Security Studies, which is a pan-African institution. He is also part of the Future Africa-WCRP initiative, another pan-African platform aimed at creating better agency and capacity around climate scie...

Adana Mahase-Gibson and Chandra Degia, two women scientists- who are strong advocates of the One Health approach in the Caribbean region-, talk about the value of indigenous knowledge. They were asked how this indigenous knowledge could be better taken into account and combined with modern science?

Adana Mahane-Gibson and Chandra Degia are actively involved in the newly created Caribbean One Health Alliance, a network of senior One Health Caribbean professionals, of which Adana is the co-chair. They express in this interview their strong convictions about their One Health approach, and the role of women, indigenous knowledge holders and artists in finding solutions and getting messages acros...

Dr Heide Hackmann is an international science diplomat, advisor and policy maker. Former Chief Executive Officer of the International Science Council, she is now the Interim Director at the Future Africa Institute, a research institute and Pan-African platform based in her native South Africa, to which she returned recently after some 30 years abroad. She talks about the state of research and inno...

A 25 ans, Mouhamadou Lamine Kébé, ingénieur sénégalais, est le co-fondateur de la start-up Tolbi qui propose aux petits agriculteurs des solutions simples et abordables basées sur l’intelligence artificielle, les drones et l’Internet des objets connectés. Grâce à des informations en temps réel, ils peuvent mieux gérer l’eau d’irrigation, les apports en engrais et la détection des maladies des plan...

In the run-up to the second UN Ocean Conference, and a few days before an OACPS meeting in Ghana of ministers in charge of fisheries and aquaculture, we speak to Andrew Hudson about the central role of research and innovation in conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources for a thriving blue economy. À l’approche de la seconde Conférence des Nations unies sur les océans,...

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, we have an anterview with Talash Huijbers, a young innovator. She is 26 years old, she grew up in Kenya on the farm run by your Dutch father and Kenyan mother. She learned about the potential of insects while studying International Food and Agribusiness at HAS University of Applied Sciences in Netherlands. And in November 2018, she set up an insect...

A l’occasion de la journée internationale des femmes et des filles de science, nous interviewons deux jeunes scientifiques congolaises, Eunice Zola et Myriam Luzala. Elles ont 22 et 24 ans, et sont respectivement en 5ème et 6ème année de sciences pharmaceutiques. Elles viennent d’être sélectionnées dans le cadre de l’appel à projets du Centre de recherche et d'innovation technologique en environne...

Interview de Benjamin Roche, directeur de recherche à l'Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), conseiller scientifique One Health de la présidente de l'Institut et spécialiste des interactions entre biodiversité et maladies infectieuses. Il est aussi avec Marisa Peyre (CIRAD) et Jean-François Soussana (INRAE) l’un des trois coordinateurs de l'initiative internationale PREZODE (Preventi...

In this episode (dated on 5 August 2021), we talk with Myrna Cunningham Kain, an internationally renowned Indigenous rights activist and a Public Health Practitioner with the Miskitu indigenous population on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua (from which she comes). She has been notably Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN, as well as advisor to the President of the UN General...

Monica Kapipiri is a Ugandan consultant with over 20 years of experience in training – she is part of the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) team of trainers – in leadership, mentoring and coaching, science skills, negotiations and gender integration. She has worked with both local and international NGOs, research, and government agencies, including the EU, FARA, CARE I...

In this episode (interview dated n 10 November 2021), we talk with Racquel Moses, from Trinidad & Tobago. She is the Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator (CCSA), and she was recently appointed as the United Nations Global Ambassador for the Caribbean at the COP26. She talks, aong other things, about the Climate Summit, and how the CCSA can help accelerate climate acti...

Dans cet épisode, en date du 13 septembre 2021, nous nous entretenons avec Jérôme Aucan, le directeur du Centre de la Communauté du Pacifique pour les Sciences Océaniques (PCCOS). Il nous parle entre autres des grands enjeux auxquels la recherche et l’innovation liées aux océans doivent s’atteler aujourd’hui, des domaines où se situent les plus gros déficits des connaissances scientifiques océaniq...