Introduction
Elsie Onsongo is the Manager of the International Centre for Frugal Innovation – Kenya Hub. Her research interests relate to innovation for inclusive development in sub-Saharan Africa, with a current focus on frugality, inclusion and sustainability in energy, health care, and urban development. Elsie has a PhD from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, and she previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She has been a visiting research fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK, and has worked at Strathmore University in Kenya in various teaching, research and administrative capacities.
Expert
Elsie is an academic researcher based in Nairobi Kenya, and her research focuses on science, technology and innovation (STI), innovation for development, particularly frugal and inclusive innovation, where she has applied various lenses, among them, sociology and economics, and multidisciplinary approaches used in innovation studies. She has conducted research on mobile money innovation in Kenya, innovation in primary health care, and more recently, energy access. She is interested in socio technical transitions, neo-institutional theory, and political economy.
Fields of expertise: Financing for inclusive development, Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion, Participation, Reduction of inequalities / equity / poverty eradication, Science policy, technology and innovation policy