Nokia has played a key role in African innovation. When the company's 1100 became available in Africa, the continent's people the tech to do-it-yourself use, creating innovations that have continued to blossom: mobile banking companies, solar-powered phone charging co-ops, pay-per-view educational tablets and drones that answer cargo and medical delivery issues.
Frequently, these innovations have risen out of necessity, so mobile phones have stood in for physical banking systems, portable solar panels took the place of unreliable power grids, apps filled in for precarious or non-existent state education and drones traverse roads where other means of travel is impossible.
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