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Origin Labs Africa

Transforming Africa through Original & Indigenous−rooted Solutions

Solving African Problems for Africa

The best talent in Africa to solve complex and intriguing problems through groundbreaking research, development, and innovation.

Our Vision

The go-to place for Solutions to Africa’s Vexing Challenges.

Industry Seeking Solutions

To address a specific challenge in an existing or emerging entity or industry partner. The solution is created by collaborating with the brightest and most talented minds from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. Here, Origin links the challenge owner to the provider of the best solution to the problem. Origin’s solution providers are a pool of individual entrepreneurs and innovators, research labs, and specialized companies, including start-ups representing the best and brightest talent across Africa and beyond.

Enabling collaborative creation and innovation

Origin is a place where serial innovators and entrepreneurs come to expand their research and access key partners, which in turn shortens their idea-to-market timelines and experiences, providing a platform to respond to communities’ needs and facilitate access to first-class laboratory facilities, connecting inventors to assistance and providing assistance directly. In this second scenario, Origin harnesses the best and most talented for the growth of new businesses through collaborative creation, learning, and innovation.

Anticipating the Future

Origin is a place for freethinking, ideation, collaborative creation, and testing, where individuals and teams come together and provide different and opposing views. It offers incentives for collaborative ideation, creation, testing, and development of minimally viable products. It is a place that inspires and attracts some of the best talents with ideas that may seem out of this world (wild) but may be winners in the future, such as using technology to transform the energy, transport, health, and distribution industries.

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Community Information and Action Application

Community Information and Action Application

Community Information and Action Application

Community Information and Action Application

Hospital at Home for Diabetes and Hypertension Management

Hospital at Home for Diabetes and Hypertension Management

Academic Certificates Verification Systems

Academic Certificates Verification Systems

Coffee Traceability for Small-Holder Coffee Produce

Coffee Traceability for Small-Holder Coffee Produce

Equitable Water Sharing in a Community

Equitable Water Sharing in a Community

Cooperative Irrigation Water Schemes: Smart systems for Enhancing Transparency, Reliability, and Accountability

Cooperative Irrigation Water Schemes: Smart systems for Enhancing Transparency, Reliability, and Accountability

Quelea Quelea Bird Menace

Quelea Quelea Bird Menace

 AI-Enhanced Coffee Cherry Sorting for Premium Quality

 AI-Enhanced Coffee Cherry Sorting for Premium Quality

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Join the Origin Lab

Be part of a vibrant community shaping the future of innovation! Collaborate on exciting challenges that push boundaries and unlock your creative potential. Take part in impactful initiatives designed to solve real-world problems and showcase your unique skills. Together, let’s inspire change and create groundbreaking solutions!

Community Information and Action Application

Objective: Develop a and web application that enables community members to easily ask for information, report issues, and request services from local authorities or…

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Community Information and Action Application

Objective: Develop a and web application that enables community members to easily ask for information, report issues, and request services from local authorities or…

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Hospital at Home for Diabetes and Hypertension Management

Objective: Develop an integrated system that allows for the remote monitoring, treatment scheduling, and management of diabetes and hypertension patients, ensuring they receive timely…

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Academic Certificates Verification Systems

In Kenya, as in many other parts of the world, the proliferation of fake academic certificates poses a significant challenge to the integrity of…

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Coffee Traceability for Small-Holder Coffee Produce

In Kenya, the coffee industry plays a significant role in the economy, contributing to both rural livelihoods and foreign exchange earnings. However, the industry…

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Equitable Water Sharing in a Community

Objective: Develop a solution that ensures fair and sustainable water distribution among all community members, particularly addressing the needs of downstream users affected by…

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Cooperative Irrigation Water Schemes: Smart systems for Enhancing Transparency, Reliability, and Accountability

Water scarcity is a pressing global challenge, exacerbated by factors such as population growth, urbanization, and climate change. At a global level, regions across…

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Quelea Quelea Bird Menace

What is the eligibility criteria for submitting a solution? All legal entities individual entrepreneurs and innovators, firms, institutions and public entities in Africa. Which…

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    $1200

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 AI-Enhanced Coffee Cherry Sorting for Premium Quality

Objective: Develop an AI-powered application that automatically sorts coffee cherries based on color, size, and density. This would improve the consistency of premium quality and…

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