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i3: A market-creating initiative for African healthcare innovators

Christensen Institute

i3 is a pan-African initiative designed to accelerate the commercialization of 60 promising early & growth-stage healthcare companies. In our language, i3 is a market-creating innovation initiative built to foster healthcare focused market-creating innovations across Africa. million customers.

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What is Disruptive Thinking?

Destination Innovation

Disruptive thinking can apply across various fields, including technology, art, business, healthcare, education, and social innovation. Steve Jobs (Consumer Electronics): Jobs revolutionized personal computing, music, and telecommunications with products like the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

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The key to success in Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works initiative

Christensen Institute

I recently returned from a trip to Ghana where I got the opportunity to see how one company, mPharma, is democratizing access to affordable healthcare for average Africans. From access to affordable medicines and healthcare, to financing, housing, and electricity, hundreds of millions of Africans wake up daily and struggle to make ends meet.

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New Business Designs can be delivered through a Business Ecosystem Approach.

Paul Hobcraft

Healthcare: Challenges: Evolving healthcare regulations, digital transformation, personalized medicine, and the need for improved patient outcomes. Benefits: Alternative thinking can drive innovation in healthcare delivery, personalized treatments, and integration of digital health solutions.

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Calling all innovators: Africa’s electricity market is ripe for market-creation

Christensen Institute

For example, facilitating and expanding access to electricity in healthcare centers benefits patient treatment. The wireless telecommunications company started in some of the poorest countries in the world—Malawi, Zambia, Sierra Leone, and Congo—where, as of the late 1990s, fewer than 5% of people had access to mobile phones.

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Reparations from France should go to Haitian entrepreneurs, not the government

Christensen Institute

Deliberate investments in the country looking to solve challenges that the population on the ground are looking to solve—around food, water, education, healthcare, housing, and more—could make an immediate impact. From just a handful of mobile telecommunications operators in Africa a couple of decades ago, today there are more than 100.

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Innovation and digital transformation of the healthcare industry

hackerearth

Global healthcare spending is currently estimated at US$ 7.83 Innovation and digital transformation can improve the quality of healthcare while keeping costs in check. Telemedicine has much value in mental healthcare. ThriveOn is a mental healthcare app which provides programs based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).