https://acts-net.org African Centre for Technology Studies Tue, 22 Apr 2025 07:47:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://acts-net.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-ACTS-Favicon-Dark-Green-32x32.webp https://acts-net.org 32 32 https://acts-net.org/team/prof-mammo-muchie/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:04:55 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=3547 Prof Mammo Muchie is a DST/NRF Rated Research Professor at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa where he heads a SARChi Chair on Innovation Studies, South Africa. He is also an Adjunct Professor in University of Gondar, Arsi University and ASTU, Ethiopia and Associate Faculty Professor, SPRU, Sussex University and Senior Research Associate Fellow TMDC, Oxford University, United Kingdom. Prof Muchie founded the African Journal on Science, Technology, Innovation and Development in 2009 of which he is also the Chief Editor. He also helped found the first African Globelics Doctoral Academy in 2009, and the AfricaLics networks and is one of the scientific board members of the networks. 

]]> https://acts-net.org/team/martin-mbaya/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:03:22 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=3546 Martin Mbaya is a Faculty Member at the Strathmore Institute of Public Policy and Governance and is a Tutu fellow. Martin holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering from MIT and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches, undertakes research, consults, and grows enterprises with a focus on Public Policy, Digital Learning, and Trade. Martin is a Founding Director of Utawala Applied Research Institute the legacy of a 2013-2014 Ford Foundation grant to support Devolution on Kenya, a founder of EnAdIn Ltd and a Co-Founder of Nairobi Capital Inc. a Trustee of the AHS Endowment Fund Trust, a Trustee of the Adebisi Babatunde Thomas Entrepreneurship Institute (ABTEI), a Trustee of its affiliated Endowment Foundation Trust and formerly was Governing Council Member at ACTS. 

]]> https://acts-net.org/team/veerle-vanderweerd/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:23:20 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=3236 Dr. Veerle Vanderweed, is a Managing Partner, Platform for Transformative Technologies. She has more than 35 years of experience in global, national, and local Sustainable Development policy and program development and implementation, including 20+ years at the United Nations system.  She currently is leading several Sustainable Development entrepreneurial initiatives. She is the co-founder of the Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Conference Series (G-STIC) (www.gstic.org). In 2020, she set up the Covid Education Alliance (COVIDEA) and the Platform for Transformative Technologies (P4TT, www.p4tt.org), offering collaborative platforms to identify and bring to the market, innovative and integrated industrial solutions that substantially can contribute to the achievements of the Sustainable Development Goals. Dr. Vandeweerd has a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Antwerp, Belgium (Cum Laude), a master’s in chemistry, and a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from the University of Gent, Belgium. 

]]> https://acts-net.org/team/amb-prof-bitange-ndemo/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:21:56 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=3235 Amb Bitange Ndemo, PhD., FKIM, CBS Is a global technocrat and currently serving as Kenya’s Ambassador to Belgium. Previously, he was the Permanent Secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communication and a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi School of Business He is also an advocate of development strategies leveraging emergent technologies and social enterprise in Africa. He sits on boards of several high-profile organizations such as East Africa’s most profitable company – Safaricom – and a senior advisor three UN agencies and other non-governmental institutions. He has over 30 years of business, finance and technology expertise gained from my years in Government, Higher Education and the Private Sector. I am widely published in refereed academic journals and is a leading public intellectual offering my expertise as a columnist and commentator in high-quality, cross-cutting media platforms. 

]]> https://acts-net.org/team/prof-norman-clark/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:11:23 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=3230 Prof Norman Clark is an expert in innovation systems and development and Emeritus Professor at The Open University and the University of Strathclyde, UK. His research interests include science and technology development in Africa and South Asia, a field in which he has also acted as an adviser to relevant agencies including the World Bank, UNCTAD, UNDP, DFID, NEPAD, and the CGIAR. He served on the Governing Council of ACTS. 

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