Last week, CGE presented a poster at the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2019 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The poster detailed the Co-creation Maker Space at the Bahir Dar Institute of Technology (BiT). In collaboration with BiT and Nairobi Maker Space, CGE has supported the establishment of the Maker Space which is located at the main BiT campus. … Continue reading Maker Space Poster wins Competition at GCAM 2019 

As a partner in the Africa Biomaker Challenge, a GCRF-funded project led by the University of Cambridge’s SynBio Strategic Research Initiative and Open Plant, CGE took part in a Biomaker Challenge workshop in Kumasi, Ghana. Hosted by Kumasi Hive. Biomaker is a programme for project-based training and application development. Interdisciplinary teams were provided with starter kits and technical resources that allow the … Continue reading CGE Attends Biomaker Challenge Workshop in Ghana

CGE Cultivator venture eCO-SENSE and CGE staff members joined the Biomakespace Cambridge training event last week. The event provides a space for community based, open access biology and prototyping space. The community of scientists, engineers, technologists, entrepreneurs, teachers, artists and members of the public gather to explore the links between engineering and biology.

CGE Cultivator member open-seneca explored challenges they are facing as a Cambridge based start-up at CW Unplugged: Tech for Air event. The conference explored how innovative technologies can monitor air quality networks in developing regions. This was the first of four events as part of the CW Unplugged: Air, Earth, Fire, & Water programme and … Continue reading CW Unplugged: Tech for Air

CGE visited Ethiopia in May to explore the entrepreneurial and innovation eco-system in Bahir Dar. CGE is working in collaboration with the Bahir Dar Institute for Technology (BIT) to establish a Maker Space. The visit was a great success, six focus groups were conducted with over 120 students, we met with local entrepreneurs and innovators, … Continue reading CGE visits Bahir Dar, Ethiopia to explore the innovation eco-system

CGE member organisation, Cambridge Global Health Partnerships, is currently seeking a full-time, paid intern for Sept 2019 to March 2020. CGHP is looking for someone with strong administration, research and writing skills, and a passion for global health and international development to help them build this exciting programme and expand its reach. See full job description … Continue reading Paid Internship with Cambridge Global Health Partnerships

CGE Cultivator venture DEPLOY (Diagnostics to Empower Pathogen-detection in a Low-income country) is a mobile diagnostic laboratory in a tent which will be deployed in Sierra Leone and used for identification of cases of malaria and other vector-borne diseases. As part of Cambridge Science Festival, DEPLOY gave tours of the diagnostic tent and a talk … Continue reading Deploy: Lab in a Tent (Cambridge Science Festival)

CGE hosted Water, Soil, Air: the good, the bad and the useful as part of Cambridge Science Festival. CGE’s Cultivator ventures WaterScope, Majico, CamBike Sensors and BioBottle Voltaic gave presentations and hands-on demonstrations to show how they are using technology to provide clean drinking water, monitor air quality and test soil to cultivate the good, eliminate the bad … Continue reading Water, Soil & Air: the good, the bad and the useful (Cambridge Science Festival)

CGE’s Student Society hosted the twelfth CamIDC  2019 on Saturday 2 March. With over one-hundred attendees, the conference was a great success. Baroness Caroline Cox , founder of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust spoke about working in war zones and Harriet Lamb, CEO of International Alert spoke on peace and advocacy. Leah Moss, Policy and Advocacy Officer at Plan International, Amika George, Founder … Continue reading Cambridge International Development Conference: Faces of Equality

Last week, the CGE Student Society Committee hosted their first event of the academic year. At the event, titled ‘Gender & Ethnicity in 21st Century Contexts of Equality’ , three speakers discussed the affect of gender disparity on economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health, and political empowerment in the developing world. The event was a great success and … Continue reading CGE Student Committee: Gender & Ethnicity in 21st Century Contexts of Equality