Fertilizing innovations

Frank Mollel says his fertilizer distributing cart
is a good example of the type of technological
innovation everyday Africans need

The Tanzania Inventors and Techno-Thinkers Consortium is a non-profit organization responsible for seeking bright inventive or innovative ideas that would otherwise go unpursued and inspire their transformation into real products or useful technologies.

See BBC News: The African invention school inspired by bike parts
Objectives

• Inspiring innovative thinking and behavior
• Acquiring and disseminating useful industrial technologies
• Assisting in the development of innovative ideas
• Teaching the principles of innovation
• Encouraging young people to think in a creative and innovative way
• Encouraging the industrial sector stakeholders to participate in the process of discovering and nurturing bright innovative ideas

Activities

• Accumulating and maintaining an innovative ideas databank
• Researching and developing innovative ideas
• Organizing innovation-oriented workshops and competitions in primary and secondary schools
• Creating a network between the research institutes and idea owners to inspire the share of resources and expertise.