Science Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Imperative Transformation: Envisioning Africa’s Future with Science and Technology
WFSIE is rooted in the belief that the challenges of our time demand not only innovation but also imagination, cooperation, the courage to build together, and equitable partnerships. Through this transdisciplinary and human-centered approach, WFSIE brings science out of the lab and innovation and entrepreneurship out of the profit-only mindset and into a new narrative of shared futures.
Additionally, WFSIE recognizes the role of science diplomacy and equitable global partnerships as vital tools for peace, trust-building, and resilience. In a world facing division and planetary risk, science can serve as a bridge across countries, cultures, and conflicts, enabling open dialogue, equitable partnerships, and shared solutions.
Our Vision
WFSIE is a global platform and a living movement that redefines how science, innovation, and entrepreneurship serve society.
We strive to bridge science and society by connecting research, technology, and entrepreneurial thinking with lived experience, cultural values, and local communities, ensuring that science becomes not just relevant, but radically human. We expand the definition of entrepreneurship to embrace those who challenge systems, champion justice, design peace, and bring bold ideas to life across sectors.
Our mission is to amplify knowledge co-creation, co-design and co-production, especially in regions of the Global South, by investing in capacity-building, creating platforms for visibility, and supporting equitable partnerships that foster mutual learning. We place the humanities at the heart of innovation, understanding that technology without ethics and progress without story are incomplete.
We create spaces for intergenerational and global dialogue, where youth and elders, scientists and artists, policymakers and entrepreneurs come together to imagine and co-create the futures they want to inhabit. By weaving together public and private sectors, academia, civil society, and indigenous communities, we break down silos and open pathways for holistic, transformative change.
Our Mission
We imagine a world where science, innovation, and entrepreneurship are not merely engines of growth, but forces for nurturing life, dignity, and possibility—for all people, in all places. The World Forum for Science-Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WFSIE) exists to foster a new global culture of innovation: one rooted in ethics, powered by purpose, and shaped through collaboration that transcends disciplines, geographies, and generations.
In this future, entrepreneurship is no longer confined to launching companies. It becomes a tool for healing broken systems, inspiring movements, and building futures grounded in justice and imagination. We believe every person has the capacity to create knowledge, not only consume it. In our vision, science is guided by humanity’s most urgent needs and deepest values, while technology walks hand-in-hand with the humanities toward a regenerative tomorrow.
Why Africa, Why Now
The inaugural edition of the World Forum for Science-Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WFSIE) will take place in 2025 at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya—a deliberate choice that marks both a beginning and a bold statement. Organized in collaboration with Dr. Wycliffe Ong’eta Mose of Kenyatta University, this first forum was inspired by Africa’s immense potential and its ongoing efforts to transform that potential into sustainable impact.
Africa, home to extraordinary talent, knowledge systems, and resilience, continues to face systemic barriers in transforming ideas into lasting impact. WFSIE 2025 seeks to reframe this reality, positioning Africa not as a passive recipient of innovation but as a global leader in shaping its future.
One of the continent’s most pressing challenges is advancing science, technology, innovation, quality education, and knowledge-based entrepreneurship. To address this, more targeted strategies and actions are needed, especially those rooted in scientific and technological outputs. Enhancing Africa’s STI ecosystem requires collective efforts integrating the main pillars of change to empower individuals through mentorship, capacity building, supportive policies, seed funding, marketing, and consultation, leading Africa to become a producer of knowledge and innovation rather than a passive consumer.
.This hybrid gathering will bring together thinkers, builders, funders, and institutions to amplify African-led science, innovation, and research entrepreneurship. It will create bridges between local realities and global opportunities, while celebrating the richness of indigenous knowledge and the role of the humanities as vital drivers of innovation. With a strong commitment to equity, the forum will also empower youth and women by providing the platforms and partnerships needed to lead transformative change.
Crucially, this edition aims to strengthen Africa’s science, technology, and innovation ecosystems through strategic cooperation and open knowledge frameworks. More than an event, WFSIE Africa is a declaration of intent: that the future of global innovation will be co-authored by Africa, rooted in its contexts, led by its people, and shared with the world.
WFSIE Topics of Interest
WFSIE is not a platform for conventional research papers. Instead, it seeks bold, purpose-driven ideas and projects that blend innovation, ethics, and impact—initiatives that rethink the role of science and entrepreneurship in shaping a more sustainable, inclusive future.
Submissions should align with the Forum’s core values: science with purpose, entrepreneurship with ethics, innovation with depth, and integrity-based partnerships. Areas of interest include sustainable development goals (health, food, water, energy, education, partnerships, etc), science and technology, social innovations, and other transformative fields.
Who We Bring to the Table
WFSIE is committed to creating a truly inclusive space – one where ideas can spark, evolve, and be translated into action across sectors and generations. To achieve this, the forum brings together a vibrant constellation of people who shape the way knowledge is created, shared, and applied.
At its core are the knowledge creators: scientists and researchers working across applied and interdisciplinary fields, alongside scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and holders of indigenous knowledge whose wisdom is essential to shaping context-rooted innovation.
Equally vital are the innovation enablers: leaders from industry and the private sector, research institutions, tech entrepreneurs with academic roots, university tech transfer officers, research managers, and incubator and innovation hub founders who help ideas take flight.
Policy architects join the table to shape environments where innovation thrives. They include policymakers in science, education, and innovation, representatives of international bodies such as the UN, UNESCO, ISC, GYA, and AU, as well as national and regional STI ministries, science diplomats, and advisors.
No transformation happens without resources. Financial catalysts—including impact investors, philanthropic foundations, development banks, venture funds, and connectors within the African diaspora—play a pivotal role in unlocking the potential of bold, ethical ventures.
We also welcome the social narrators: journalists, documentary filmmakers, educators, curriculum designers, and artists who work at the interface of science and society, shaping the stories we tell about our shared future.
Finally, WFSIE opens its doors wide to civil society and the public, including youth leaders, student innovators, women’s empowerment organizations, and NGOs advocating for inclusive, just development. These voices are not an afterthought—they are at the center of co-creating the world we want.
Kenya, December 1-3, 2025
Steering Committeе
Prof. Amal Amin, Founder – WFSIE Honorary Founding Chair
Dr. Wycliffe Ong’eta Mose, Kenyatta University, WFSIE Co-chair
Dott. Nerina Finetto, WFSIE Strategic Director
Organizing Committee
Dr. Wycliffe Ong’eta Mose, WFSIE Co-chair
Faith Mwangangi (Kenya)
Pratheebhan (Malaysia)
Franklin Tchakounte (Cameroon)
Scientific Committee
It will be announced later by all concerned stakeholders
Partnerships & Fundraising Task Force
TBD
Organisations:
Science for Humanity – Global Society,
Traces&Dreams AB
Women in Science Without Borders
Kenyatta University
Oasis Peace Web Organisation
Organisations:
Science for Humanity – Global Society,
Traces&Dreams AB
Women in Science Without Borders
Kenyatta University
Oasis Peace Web Organisation
Registration
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