Seven African startups have been chosen as the finalists of the 2024 ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW), a distinguished global hardware social innovation accelerator program.
The ISHOW is the International Student Hardware Competition, and it is held annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The show is to be held in Nairobi, Kenya on June 19.
The finalists who offer hardware solutions to agricultural, building, energy, health, transport, and waste issues will present their business plans to secure a slice of the $30,000 prizes in grant funding together with support to commercialize the technologies and bring them to the masses.
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Among them are Kenyan enterprises such as Adumu, which has established an institutional cooking system powered by biodiesel; and Megagas Alternative Energy Enterprise that recycles plastics to produce clean cooking gas. Uganda has been marked by Che Innovations which has constructed the warming device for use in minimizing neonatal hypothermia during the transport via ambulance; and Neosave Technologies the wearable medical device manufactured for clinicians to monitor the illness of the sick newborns admitted for care.
Also selected are Tanzania’s Afya Lead which has created a patented, non-invasive and cheap device geared towards handling post-partum haemorrhage (PPH), Ghana’s MeSADA which has generated a five-row staple grain precision seeder, and Zambia’s Yaaka Investment that creates a non-emission transportable bin aimed at avoiding toxic waste.
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