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How COVID-19 is spurring innovation in South Africa
Adam Craker (MBA 1996) created startup SAtion to boost business and the economy through digitalization.
Fresh from the success of COBRA (Covid Business Rescue Assistance), Adam Craker has turned to SAtion, a public private initiative to ease and accelerate South Africa’s digital future.
Building on his experience since last year’s launch of COBRA to help businesses crushed by the pandemic stave off closure, Craker is confident knowledge-sharing, mentoring, investment and innovation can once again be harnessed, this time to digitize business and boost an embattled economy.
“SAtion (whose name blends the acronym for South Africa, SA, with the suffix “tion”, used to denote the result of an action) was born out of COBRA and everything that we learned about creating an active ecosystem. Now we’re aiming to improve on that model and approach,” says Craker, who fell in love with Sou
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Florida cities experiment with underground waste containers
Out-of-Sight Trash
Three years ago, Kissimmee installed its first underground waste containers behind city hall. Today, the city has 11 such systems around town and recently added four subterranean bins at the Hamilton at Lakeside apartments, making it the first apartment complex in North America to use the underground waste infrastructure, which was developed by an Italian company. Other Florida cities are also experimenting with the method. Clearwater is in the process of designing and installing several units near the beach and will also add one outside of Spectrum Field, where the Philadelphia Phillies hold their spring training.