Ideas Lab

Ideas Lab is ATFL’s space for exploration, experimentation, and cross-cutting inquiry.

Here, we pursue questions that don’t yet fit neatly into a single issue area, but that matter for how Africa understands and shapes technological change.

Our work evolves as the landscape changes.

The initiatives below represent a snapshot of our current work. As technologies, priorities, and contexts shift, so too does our project mix.

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    Rethinking Risk & Resilience

    A diverse cohort of fellows and experts examining the deeper—and often overlooked—dynamics shaping Africa’s electric mobility transition.

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    ATFLxMawazo Fellowship

    Supporting early-career African women researchers to translate rigorous scholarship into influential ideas shaping Africa’s technological futures.

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    Ideas Lab Voices

    Cross-cutting perspectives from our expert network exploring new ways of thinking about Africa’s technological futures.

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