World Economic Forum (WEF) - An app that allows farmers to rent tractors could revolutionize agriculture in Africa. Here’s how

Title:

An app that allows farmers to rent tractors could revolutionize agriculture in Africa. Here's how

 

Author:

Douglas Broom

 

Published:

World Economic Forum (WEF), 21 June 2021

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/tractor-app-agriculture-farming-africa/

 

From the article:

* More than 200 million subsistence farmers in Africa live off $2 a day. 

 

* But a tractor app is offering them the chance to grow more food and earn more money. 

 

* Hello Tractor enables farmers to rent tractors when they need them. 

 

* The scheme is expected to bring nine million hectares of land into production and create two million new jobs. 

 

* It’s one of 17 companies selected for The Circulars Accelerator on the UpLink platform.

 

KENYA - This app is preparing Kenya's herders for extreme weather [World Economic Forum, Feb 2021]

Title:

This app is preparing Kenya's herders for extreme weather

 

Author:

Kagondu Njagi

Published:

World Economic Forum, 23 February 2021

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/weather-app-kenya-pastoralists

From the article:

* As climate change causes difficult weather conditions, access to village-level drought updates and advice from smartphones is helping Kenya's herders. 

 

* An app called 'myAnga' (my weather) contains the information, which is provided by virtual weather stations. 

 

* Daniel Kapana, chairman of the Merille Livestock Market, has suggested that the app should be improved with infographics and illustrations, so people who cannot read are able to use it.

Alexa, do I have COVID-19? Researchers are exploring ways to use people’s voices to diagnose coronavirus infections, dementia, depression and much more.

Title:

Alexa, do I have COVID-19?

 

Author:

Emily Anthes

 

Published:

Nature, 30 September 2020

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02732-4

 

From the article:

In March, as the staggering scope of the coronavirus pandemic started to become clear, officials around the world began enlisting the public to join in the fight. Hospitals asked local companies to donate face masks. Researchers called on people who had recovered from COVID-19 to donate their blood plasma. And in Israel, the defence ministry and a start-up company called Vocalis Health asked people to donate their voices.

University of Cape Town (UCT) - UCT students develop breastfeeding app to support babies in need of breast milk

Title: 

UCT students develop breastfeeding app to support babies in need of breast milk

Author:

Sisonke Mlamla

Published:

IOL, 27 September 2020

https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/life/uct-students-develop-breastfeeding-app-to-support-babies-in-need-of-breast-milk-fecf921e-feea-43b7-843f-131ce5f4d346

From the article:

A UCT lecturer who is donating her breast milk to Milk Matters, a non-profit human milk bank, has inspired post-graduate students to assist the organisation with research and developing an app to support babies in need of breast milk.

SOUTH AFRICA - App teaches kids to read in all offical SA languages (Feed the Monster by Bellavista S.H.A.R.E)

Title:
App teaches kids to read in all offical SA languages

Author:
ilhaam Bardien

Published:
Popular Mechnics, 17 April 2020

From the article:
"Feed the Monster, is an app created for children between six and eight years of age, by Bellavista S.H.A.R.E, a division of Johannesburg remedial school, Bellavista School. The app tackles the essentials and basics of reading  

Feed the Monster provides reading direction in English, isiXhosa, isiZulu, TshiVenda, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, XiTsonga, SiSwati, Afrikaans, isiNdebele and Swahili using a game format."

To read this article:
https://www.popularmechanics.co.za/tech/app-teaches-kids-to-read-in-all-offical-sa-languages/

To go to the website of Feed the Monster by Bellavista S.H.A.R.E:
https://www.bellavistashare.org.za/index.php/en/feed-the-monster