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mPedigree is known for our work in sensitive and critical consumer goods supply chains such as pharmaceuticals, agro-inputs, cosmetics, and automotive parts.
From our start in the anti-counterfeiting space, we have long been associated with quality assurance and certification through a consumer safety and regulatory support lens.
But our platforms like Chiron have long expanded that scope. It is best to see our contribution as offering a "Trust Engine for the Social Economy".
Case in point: our partnership with Oryx in Tanzania is driving the uptake of clean cookstoves. Working with them and relevant government agencies to shift consumers from dirty fuels demonstrates the power of mPedigree's technologies to impact both climate response and health (dirty fuels = soot in lungs) in far-reaching ways.
Trust is the ultimate currency of social change.
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At the ongoing OECD Asia-DAC Dialogue, on the margins of the World Bank - IMF Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, Bright had the opportunity to address development cooperation leaders.
He urged the OECD to remember its own roots in the OEEC, when Europe, despite being on the aid-recipient side, organised itself to shape the flow and absorption of Marshall Plan resources from the US.
Today's developing countries deserve the same chance to shape development cooperation for their own transformation and take control of their destiny.
The discussion and analysis of how Ghana should position itself for the AI era is...not yet in overdrive mode. But it is getting there!
Join Bright and other speakers at the upcoming JoyNews and JoyFM Digital Economy Forum for what promises to be a most passionate conversation about "AI and the Ghana Economy."
On the eve of the African Union's Mid-Year Summit, Egypt hosted a business forum in Alamein, on the country's North-Western Mediterranean coast.
Alamein was mostly an empty patch, known more for its World War II battlefields than for tourism, until a government directive set it on its new course as a smart city designed to hold 3 million residents by 2030. Still work in progress but quite breathtaking in ambition.
Bright addressed the Summit on Africa's mineral wealth strategy, during which he continued his campaign for Africa to determine what "critical minerals" mean in its own context.
He advised a focus on minerals required for industrial transformation, and exploration rather than stockpiling. He also promoted the mPedigree-supported concept of a "digital minerals information rights" platform.
High-level week during UNGA is always over the top. But it is a good season to spread ideas.
Here is Bright presenting thoughts on "transmediation" and "oversolving" to a an audience of philanthropic leaders assembled by the Funders Roundtable.
"Oversolving" = social problem-solving is different from commercial problem-solving because the former aims to root out underlying causes whereas the latter only needs go as far as someone is willing to pay. Social problem-solvers would thus massively overextend unless they link up with other social problem-solvers to divide and conquer.
Transmediation = creating such linkages among social problem-solvers. This, however, is a full-time job. Sadly, funders typically only want to fund the final impact leg, leaving these vital links constantly under-formed. The result is burnt-out social entrepreneurs clinging on to the myth of the "heroic single-solver" and the social sector punching below its weight.
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The BBC World Service has been given exclusive access to the prosecution case against seven members of South Africa's special forces, and one military police officer, who have been charged with murdering top detective Lt Col Mathipa, in August 2023. bbc.in/45Oi4o3
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Loving this visual story-telling by New African based on my recent piece (link in first comment) on what Ethiopian Airlines has to teach African countries about how to smartly win in a world of cutthroat competition over strategic interests.
What can African policymakers learn from Ethiopian Airlines?
Eighty years ago, Ethiopia didn't even have a runway. Today, Ethiopian Airlines @flyethiopian is one of the world's largest and most profitable carriers.
How did it happen? Not by luck, but through vision, strategy and long-term commitment.
Bright Simons @BBSimons unpacks the story behind Africa's greatest aviation success.
Watch the video and read the two-part series below:
Part 1 newafricanmagazine.com/econo…
Part 2 newafricanmagazine.com/econo…
#EthiopianAirlines #AfricaRising #Industrialisation #Leadership
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Thrilled to see our "corridor premium" theory make its debut in this stellar piece of sharp reporting by the Economist on the resurgence of "mega-projects" in Africa (see thread for the link).
Detailed solutions to the corridor premium party-pooper in African infrastructure are upcoming in an exciting new publication.
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Every society has a Bra Kofi.
Mine was a self-taught auto-technician at Suame Magazine in Ghana.
He could whip up carbide fireworks and several goofy but delightful gizmos.
He exuded a different kind of intelligence from the one I have encountered a lot in my adult life in lecture rooms and book pages.
He was the childhood inspiration behind our turning of milk tins into swanky cars and wood scraps into birdcages.
My TEDxBerlin talk asks a disturbing question: as we put more intelligence into machines, are we creating fewer spaces where humans learn, improvise and think together?
For Africa, the danger is even deadlier. AI can help us produce polished contracts, reports and manuals while leaving factories, farms and workshops untouched. We may automate the *façade* and neglect the engine room.
The ease with which AI can make our setups look sophisticated on the outside but hollow on the inside can actually hold us back in our industrialisation drive.
The alternative is to build for the Bra Kofis: connect tacit knowledge to sensors, credentials, capital and institutions through a new generation of cross-thinkers. Might you be one, a cross-thinker?
AI’s future should not belong only to Big Tech and the few big moneybags in Silicon Valley. It should be inherited by the MANY in Suame and beyond.
Watch the talk, then think about it: are there still some Bra Kofis in your world? Waiting to be recognised and amplified?
If so, be on the lookout: the "social edge framework" was built for that mission. We would like you onboard.
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Bright quoted among five experts on the subject of how innovative new models can open frontier markets and humanitarian corridors to fresh investment.
Take a read:
weforum.org/stories/global-r…
Ripples of the WEF HRI - InvestFrontier convening in Geneva last month continue to reverberate. From insight to insight. Example...
This week, as part of its InvestFrontier Initiative, the World Economic Forum convened leaders from around the world in Villa Mundi, Geneva. The speakers represented organisations working at the frontline of a new vision for development in frontier markets that brings the private sector on board while preserving humanitarian values. Bright represented mPedigree on a panel with reps from CoAction, Amahoro, Interpeace, WFP, and Circle.
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At Devex's WHA event, Bright Simons argued that AI systems ultimately depend on human relationships, judgment, and collaboration — and warned that overly automating healthcare could erode the very intelligence these systems rely on. devex.com/news/why-healthcar…
Watch Bright make the argument that "...that AI systems ultimately depend on human relationships, judgment, and collaboration" and also warn that... "overly automating health care could erode the very intelligence these systems rely on."
Video: youtu.be/TzYDv4tHRwk?si=MUm5…
He was speaking about his recently published "Social Edge Framework" on a panel at Devex Impact House at the ongoing World Health Assembly in Geneva moderated by Rumbi Chakamba of Devex. Co-Panelist: Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet of Vital Strategies.
