Taking action in Africa

Conference spotlights companies and organizations that are innovating across various sectors.

Panelist Jarrod Goentzel, director of the MIT Humanitarian Response Lab, which aims to improve supply chains and response times during humanitarian crises, said mobile technologies have great potential for improving supply chains, especially among African countries.

Among other things, Goentzel said, mobile technologies are enabling anti-counterfeiting measures for, say, pharmaceuticals, with receivers able to send text messages with codes to verify authenticity. “In some cases, it’s life-saving,” he said.

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