Rwandan green energy startup in contention for 2016 global science & technology award

Local innovator, Clarisse Uwineza, has qualified to the 2016 GIST Tech-I semifinals. Uwineza’s project, on bio-organic waste fertiliser, was last week named among the 102 2016 GIST Tech-I semifinalists. She is the only Rwandan to make the semifinals. The project seeks to convert agricultural and bio-organic waste into fortified organic fertiliser (bio-char), and bio-energy like charcoal, that can be used for energy, heat, electricity and cooking at a low cost.