My name is Elisabetta Demartis. I’m a passionate Italian girl about innovation and development who discovered Africa in 2013, when I moved to Nairobi for 3 months during the presidential elections.
The reason that pushed me there was the curiosity to study for my Master thesis how a crowdsourcing digital innovation like Ushahidi crowdmap was able to track disorders and events in the slums in order to prevent post-election violence. After my graduation in Development Economics I moved to Senegal in 2014 for six months, for a research project in partnership with my university (Univesity of Turin) and the Senegalese Institute of Agricultural researches (ISRA). The goal was to discover and map the local initiatives and enterprises working with the ICT in the primary sector.
