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Ann-Kathrin Kübler, Hannah Rohe and Joël Inglin have been awarded an HS23 Semester Award for their outstanding Master's thesis, entitled «Modeling Innovation Diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa – An Agent-Based Approach».
The Master's thesis entitled «Modeling Innovation Diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa – An Agent-Based Approach» was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hilty and Dr. Matthias Huss (ZKSD). Ann-Kathrin Kübler, Hannah Rohe and Joël Inglin refined an existing model of innovation diffusion and created an intuitive tool that can be used by field researchers to efficiently introduce crucial agricultural innovations. The main goal is to reduce poverty and ensure food security in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The developed software has already been tested in projects of the ZKSD (Zurich Knowledge Center for Sustainable Development) with real data from Tanzania. The work of Ann-Kathrin Kübler, Hannah Rohe and Joël Inglin combines sophisticated methods of agent-based simulation of innovation spreading with the highest requirements for praticality under the given conditions of field research in Africa. The developed software supports researchers in their work by simulating the effectiveness of potential interventions. Thus, the limited resources for information campaigns can be used optimally. The tool is technically completely platform independent. Installation and use do not require any technical knowledge.
