Filtering by: Innovation and Technology
![A Plug-In To Curb The Spread Of Mis- And Disinformation.]()
We at The Youth Café wish to invite you for a virtual workshop on Tuesday, April 12th, 2022, between 10:00 am - 11:30 am EAT, where the discussions will dwell on the research results and begin discussions on further investigations. The webinar will cover; the key takeaways from the experimental findings, recommendations on how to identify mis- and disinformation and curb its spread, and a feedback session highlighting areas for further analysis.
![The Youth Café In A Digital Rights And Digital Inclusion Workshop.]()
Paradigm Initiative will present a Short Film, FOCUS, which captures the state of digital rights and digital inclusion in Africa as reported in Londa, PIN’s signature annual report. The 2020 report covered 20 African reports, including Kenya. The event meeting will be held at Four Points by Sheraton Hotel (Hurlingham Nairobi) on 18th March 2022 from 0900 Hrs to 1200 Hrs.
![Global Media And Information Literacy Week 2021]()
Global Media and Information Literacy Week, commemorated annually, is a major occasion for stakeholders to review and celebrate the progress achieved towards “Media and Information Literacy for All”. Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2021 is hosted by South Africa and will take place from 24-30 October 2021. Register now!
![Innovation | Healthcare and Science - Innovative Solutions to COVID-19 The Youth Cafe]()
This panel will highlight these innovations as well as think deeply about their applicability in the fight against COVID-19.
![The Second African Science, Technology and Innovation Forum | The Youth Cafe]()
The second African Science, Technology and Innovation Forum will draw lessons from the first African Science, Technology and Innovation Forum, and the organizational and structural aspects of the Multi-stakeholder Science, Technology, and Innovation Forum for the Sustainable Development Goals. In this regard, the second African Science, Technology and Innovation Forum will be held over a two-day period beginning one day before the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development, and will mobilize Member States, business leaders, academia and civil society to contribute fully and benefit from its proceedings. In this regard, a number of preparatory steps have been undertaken in building up the African Science, Technology and Innovation Forum.
![The Seventh Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development (TICAD7) | The Youth Cafe]()
The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) is a multilateral leaders’ forum on Africa’s development, first convened in 1993 in Japan. The spirit of international partnership is reflected in the composition of TICAD’s co-organizers: the United Nations (UN), UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, and the Government of Japan since TICAD’s inauguration, with the African Union Commission (AUC) joining since 2010. Over the quarter of a century, TICAD has maintained its uniqueness as a pioneering, open, inclusive and multilateral forum to mobilize global support for African development. At the same time, it has continued to evolve to address both opportunities and challenges affecting Africa in alignment with both pan-African and international visions, such as African Union’s Agenda 2063 and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, respectively.
Committed to delivering tangible results on the ground, TICAD is also proud of its follow-up process. As part of it, this report reviews the progress made during the three-year period (2016-2018) since TICAD VI1.
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![Health Innovation Lab | Building a Robust Ecosystem for Health Innovations in Kenya to Catalyse Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage | The Youth Cafe]()
Background
There is consensus across the global health community that embracing innovations is a crucial part of the ambitious plan to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030, as envisaged in the Sustainable Development Goals. By creating better tools, products and approaches – and constantly refining existing ones – we can make faster and more efficient progress to better health outcomes. However, many promising innovations fail to move beyond their pilot stages and never achieve impact at scale.
Kenya is globally renowned as a hub for innovation and the country’s healthcare landscape is dotted with many innovative solutions at various stages of development and scale. Existing policies are supportive and proactively advocate for innovations to catalyse faster progress. Though fragmented, there are several opportunities for financing healthcare innovations including a number of challenge funds, hackathons, innovation incubation and accelerator funds, as well as impact investors. While the fundamental architecture and drivers of healthcare innovation do exist in Kenya, there are ecosystem challenges that inhibit the seamless movement of promising solutions along the continuum from ideation to sustainable scale. The existence of a vibrant network of actors in the innovation ecosystem provides an excellent opportunity to learn, adapt and improve by drawing on this collective experience.
![Africa Youth Connect Summit | The Youth Cafe]()
The YouthConnekt programme is a multifaceted youth empowerment model focused on leveraging youth employability, entrepreneurship and civic engagement through innovation.
Following the July 2017 YCA Summit that recommended to create the YouthConnekt Hub and Fund. This year’s Summit (YCA 2019) will mark the official launch of the YouthConnekt Africa Hub that will serve as a coordination entity that connects and promotes existing youth empowerment initiatives at the continent and ensure implementation of best practices for the youth socio-economic transformation.
