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Most countries have based their long-term planning<br />

(‘vision’) documents on harnessing science, technology<br />

and innovation to development.<br />

Kevin Urama, Mammo Muchie and Remy Twingiyimana<br />

A schoolboy studies at home using a book illuminated by a single electric LED lightbulb in<br />

July 2015. Customers pay for the solar panel that powers their LED lighting through regular<br />

instalments to M-Kopa, a Nairobi-based provider of solar-lighting systems. Payment is made<br />

using a mobile-phone money-transfer service.<br />

Photo: © Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images<br />

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