In CSPO a presentation from Gregg Zachary:
Africans have gone from concentrating almost wholly on absorbing new technologies created by distant innovators to energetically and optimistically creating some of their own technologies, developed to an unprecedented degree by home-grown African innovators. The shift from absorption to home-grown innovation is happening across a range of areas:from agriculture and health-care to media, communications and commerce. This historic shift profoundly alters the terms of development assistance to the sub-Saharan, and yet few donors, multinational corporations and multi-lateral agencies are prepared to address the new African reality.More here