Development
Enstic – identifying insects by sound
Inventors: Freddie Sarathchandra & Lea Jung, enstic Website: https://enstic.com Insects matter to us in very different ways. Some spread disease, some pollinate our crops, and some are invasive species that threaten native wildlife. Yet monitoring is still slow and manual: traps are set, specimens are posted to a lab and an expert identifies them under…
MyMedGuide – improving access to medical guidelines
Inventor: Charlie Artingstoll MyMedGuide is a digitalised medical guidelines platform for healthcare workers in low-resource settings. Currently such guidelines are either only available in paper form, or can be difficult to find online. While many are based on the WHO guidelines, they are usually then adapted for the local country and the local setting. Originally…
PhytoMerge – transforming agriculture with a new crop-breeding technology
Inventor: Anoop Tripathi, Plant Sciences Agriculture faces a fundamental challenge. We need to produce more food while using fewer resources and adapting to increasingly unpredictable environmental conditions. This challenge is particularly severe in low and middle income countries, where millions of smallholder farmers depend on crops that are vulnerable to drought, heat and disease. The…
COMPASS : Achieving sustainable funding for anti-violence and food security
Inventors : Professor Nazia Habib & Deborah Jamieson OBE, Cambridge Centre for Resilience & Sustainable Development, Land Economy The inventors have a background in applying engineering systems approaches into political economics problems, and developing systems and methodologies which can be applied to multiple problems and geographies. Their recent COMPASS project (COMPASS = COMmon Pooled Asset…
PeatWaterWise : Connecting satellite science with farmers and environmental agencies
Inventor : Dr Hamidreza Rahimi , Cambridge Centre for Land Regeneration Drained peatlands are one of the largest sources of land-use greenhouse gas emissions in the UK, releasing around eleven million tonnes of CO₂ every year. The key control on these emissions is water table depth: when peat is drained and the water table drops,…
Using AI to provide strategic advice and risk assessments of
Inventors : Dr Kennedy Mbeva, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk; Dr Reuben Makomere, University of Tasmania References: Africa’s Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World, by Dr Kennedy Mbeva & others"Bounded States": How (Extreme) Risk Constrains the Aspiration for Status, by Mbeva & Makomere Africa’s development trajectory is unfolding in an increasingly…
Solar Plexus : AI-powered chatbots to increase the uptake of
Inventors : Anais-Marie Celestine Berkes & Harry Giddens, CGE Cultivator The aim of Solar Plexus is to address the knowledge barrier that prevents people in Africa making the move to solar energy. By using a conversational system, delivered through WhatsApp, they will allow users to ask questions in their own words, rather than having to…
ResPNse Medical : remote medical collaboration for acute and critical
Inventors: Dr Arunava Dhar - Chief Medical Officer, ResPNse Medical. Paediatric and Neonatal consultant, Neonatal Governance Lead, Mid and South Essex NHS foundation Trust. Multi award winner clinical entrepreneurship fellow, NHS England and Improvement Ranadip Chatterjee - CEO, ResPNse Medical. Technology Specialist and Startup Mentor - Google for Startups “Previously we only had ears. Now we have eyes…
Apka Shakti’s Maya : Clean water & cooling in a
Inventors: Gayatri Sundar Rajan, HYDECO technology; Ryuichi Ohhata, Apka Shakti software ecosystem; Amedeo Rizzo, business model & go-to-market strategy. University of Oxford & CGE Cultivator Together, the inventors have expertise in process simulation, which enables them to understand how different systems can be efficiently integrated to produce the desired end result. They are using this expertise…
