‘It always seems impossible until it’s done.’ - Nelson Mandela. Keep going ⁦MR14⁩ - you’re making the whole country proud to be British. 👊

Morocco lost an investment grade rating from Fitch last week, only S&P see it now as IG (but on neg watch). After South Africa lost its last IG in March, only #Morocco, #Mauritius & #Botswana have at least one IG rating in Africa

International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation Annual Meetings

Regional focus in a global context at #IASPvirtual: Asia Pacific & Africa! Travel around the world with the IASP regional divisions as they share their perspectives on local #innovationecosystems with our worldwide audiences #IASPafrica #IASPasiapacific iasp2020virtual.com/copy-of-full-p…

BREAKING—95%—new data from Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine shows 95% efficacy & is “100% effective” in preventing severe 🏥illness, says AZ CEO. That’s on par w/ Moderna & Pfizer. No official data yet, but UK 🇬🇧 said to likely approve in days. HUGE🧵. #COVID19 thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-…

locally produced indoor light bulbs that will give you +3hrs of lighting after a power cut! Exciting times ahead! Botswana are you ready....Africa are you ready 🙌🏾 Follow The Bulb World for more

Another doctor’s please. We desperately NEED blood. Please, if you can, go and donate blood 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

We are proud to celebrate with our Client Company; @InfoVantage, who have been awarded the “MOST INNOVATIVE REAL ESTATE DATA ANALYTICS SPECIALITS IN AFRICA” in the Global Artificial Intelligence Awards by Wealth & Finance Vantage Properties with their automated valuation ...

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Less than a week after enrapturing audiences at President Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony, America's youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman has signed with one of the world's biggest modeling agencies cnn.it/3omLHVl

Virtual round table Africa panel on Angel investments

China's top respiratory expert: Global cooperation against COVID-19 needs WHO coordination

Botswana record 2,356 #COVID19 cases yesterday above 429/day avg up 119% past 2wks. Joshua Lukens x.com/jmlukens/statu… "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Professor Allen Bartlett bit.ly/38UwVym

Exploring the place of #scienceparks & #areasofinnovation in Africa's economic recovery: join us for an IASP webinar on March 18th organised by our colleagues at Konza Technopolis Development Authority, featuring #IASPmembers and other experts from across the continent Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Starting now: #IASPafrica web forum hosted by our colleagues at Konza Technopolis Development Authority with regional and global #IASPmembers sharing their insights on the role of #innovationecosystems in economic recovery Join here: vc.konza.go.ke/b/kon-yus-nxe-… #scienceparks #areasofinnovation

The #IASPafrica forum is under way now! @YourBIH CEO Alan Phemelo Boshwaen presents the park, its infrastructure, its Special Economic Zone and its ongoing role in Botswana's economic development #scienceparks #innovationecosystems #KonzaIASPForum

BREAKING: AstraZeneca's vaccine is 79% effective at preventing symptomatic coronavirus infections and 100% effective against serious illness, according to trials in the US, Chile and Peru.

Ondari D. Mogeni Konza Director Konza Technopolis Development Authority Africa need to invest more in its science and technology infrastructure to support its economic transformation and specifically meet its vaccine and pharmaceutical needs for health security Hauwa Yabani McLean Sibanda, PhD Alan Phemelo Boshwaen Adv Pieter Holl Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

Curtain call

NEW—scientists at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research will soon announce that they have developed a vaccine that protects people from COVID-19 and all its variants, even #Omicron, called The ‘Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine’, or SpFN. 🧵 defenseone.com/technology/202…