It’s not the most obvious subject when it comes to technology, innovation and sustainability, but sanitation should be on your mind. If you don’t have sanitation, your life deteriorates and disease takes over; but if you do have it, you simply flush and forget. Professor Christopher Buckley has dedicated some 40 years to the Pollution Research Group, and along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has studied and explored the challenges South Africa faces in water use and sustainability. He chats to Gareth Cliff about where we’re at and what’s next in human waste management.
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is already making striking change to the continent of Africa, proving to be a wave of impact that we can't help but take notice of. It brings innovation, technology and endless possibilities with it. But, how ready are we for it? As the founder and chief executive of Genesis Analytics, the largest economics-based consultancy in Africa, Stephan Malherbe elaborates on why we all ought to be equipped because the future is now.
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Food security and food technology are major Fourth Industrial Revolution buzzwords - and not just because we need to find new ways to sustain ourselves and the planet. There are brilliant ways technology and innovation are taking us forward - and Leah Bessa is at the forefront of these. She’s making insect ice-cream, and she swears it’s delicious. She chats to Gareth Cliff about her business Gourmet Grubb, and food science in the 21st Century.
Read moreOliver Cann is the spokesperson for the World Economic Forum Africa and he helps Ellis and Arnie wrap up WEF ’15.
Read moreNomura International emerging Markets Economist Peter Montalto chats to Ellis and Arnie at the World Economics Forum Africa ’15.
Read moreLars Reno Jakobsen, Senior Vice President Maersk Group Executive, African Region, talks to the Candid Business team at the World Economic Forum ’15.
Read morePrince Akinwale Ojomo from the Diaspora Innovation Institute is at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2015 all the way from Nigeria.
Read moreEllis and Arnie talk to Patrick Dlamini the Chief Executive Officer of the Development Bank of Southern Africa at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2015.
Read moreFormer Deputy President of South Africa and Executive Director of UN Women, Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2015. Ellis and Arnie catch up with her.
Read moreJoint Chief Executive of the Standard Bank Group, Sim Tshabalala joins Ellis and Arnie at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2015.
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