This Wakanda Wiki is a "learning by doing" experiment about the diffusion of African innovation. It is an online engine collecting, processing, and disseminating African knowledge, technological information, and innovation that can foster sustainable development on the continent. A central assumption underlying this project is that the transboundary and dynamic circulation of homegrown know-how is a key enabler to strengthen the innovation value chain for inclusive and sustainable continental industrialization. For that endeavor, the Wiki format appeared as the obvious vector as it is simple, web-based, and open access. A Wiki allows collaborative editing with instant publication worldwide. According to Ward Cunningham, inventor of the first Wiki software: “We don't know quite what [a “Wiki”] is, but we do know it's a fun way to communicate asynchronously across the network.” Wakanda Wiki is hosted with Miraheze because it is free of charge, there are no ads, and it is 100% open source.

Sharing ideas, with a bias towards Africa, offers tremendous potential spillovers encompassing: emulate actors of the innovation cycle; replicate best practices of sustainable development across regions; valorize research and development (R&D) and innovation; attract international investors scouting novel practices; showcase African ingenuity and positive narratives; inspire new types of cooperation. Wakanda Wiki hopes to contribute to boost the innovation ecosystem and help spur knowledge-based societies towards a sustainable transformation of the continent.

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