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Integrating Multi-purpose drones for development in Malawi

April 21, 2020 • Asad Rahman • Season 1 • Episode 5

Over the last few years, there’s been a spike of interest in how unmanned aerial vehicles - UAVs or ‘drones’ - can solve some big problems in low resource settings.

In this episode, we’re joined by Daniel Ronen, Founder and CEO of the British startup UAVAid. The UAVAid drone can do many things - deliver health commodities, take images of flooding, and use live video to stop poachers. In this episode, he talks about how he’s integrated all those use cases in Malawi.

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