nnovation: Mobile health information service for mothers
Sylvia's idea, named Afya Mama, is to use mobile phones to provide women with better information about health issues surrounding pregnancy, immunisation, family planning and HIV/Aids.
Pregnant women, healthcare workers and others would get health advice by SMS, or by making a phone call and selecting pre-recorded audio content.
The messages could be pre-record
ed in any language and selected using
Interactive Voice Response technology, meaning the service could cover
the more than 40 ethnic dialects in Kenya.Sylvia says: "Our objective is to consistently sensitise mothers with information on healthcare and best practices, linking them up with an expert in the case of emergency."
nnovation: Transforming rubbish into building materials
Moussa's plan is take plastic waste, the build-up of which is a massive problem for so many cities across the continent, and turn it into something that can be used for the public good, such as building roads or pavements.
Many of the plastics that end up in African landfills or clog up urban drainage systems take more than 100 years to biodegrade naturally.
The project would build on existing research showing that plastic waste can be used to create materials that act as a substitute or part-substitute for cement, when combined with sand and gravel.
Moussa says:
"[The innovation would lead to] a healthier environment, with a reduction in both pollution and the cost of building materials."
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