Topic briefing
Engineering and product strategy for African realities: constrained infrastructure, local workflows, trustworthy AI and institutional adoption.
The central argument
Technology built for Africa must treat context as part of the architecture—not as a market adaptation added after the product is finished.
Published analysis
Building technology
Designing for a small screen is only the beginning. African products must account for shared devices, data cost, power, identity, trust and interrupted use.
Read insightBuilding technology
EdTech models carry assumptions about infrastructure, institutions, households and learning. Copying the interface without examining those assumptions imports failure.
Read insightBuilding technology
A practical standard for AI products that must work across African languages, infrastructure conditions, institutions and high-consequence decisions.
Read insightBuilding technology
Building from Ghana changes the product questions: resilience before polish, workflows before features, distribution before launch and institutional ownership before scale.
Read insightBuilding technology
Consumption gives access to capability designed elsewhere. Building gives Africa the power to shape datasets, objectives, languages, safeguards, skills and economic value.
Read insightSTEM systems
Affordability is not buying the cheapest kit. It is designing an investment that converts every cedi into repeated learner practice, teacher capability and an operating system the school can sustain.
Read insightCoding education
Programming-language choice should follow the learner’s stage and purpose. Here is a progression from computational thinking to useful products.
Read insightEducation systems
A seven-part due-diligence framework for distinguishing impressive activity from programmes capable of producing equitable, durable learning.
Read insightArtificial intelligence
Africa should not wait for perfect connectivity to build AI capability. The winning model separates what must happen locally, what may synchronise later and what always requires human judgement.
Read insightSTEM systems
A serious STEM programme is not launched when equipment arrives. It begins when purpose, teachers, timetable, tools, governance and evidence can survive an ordinary school week.
Read insightSTEM systems
Schools rarely record the cost of postponing STEM capability. Yet every delayed year compounds learner, teacher, institutional, equity and reputational risk.
Read insightDigital infrastructure
Designing for intermittent connectivity is not lowering the standard. It is how Ghana can build digital learning that remains available, usable, teachable, and maintainable.
Read insightResearch agenda
