New Africa: Ghanaian tech innovator who led counterfeit drugs crackdown

Carole Cadwalladr @ MediaGuardian - Mobile - on 25/8/12

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Bright Simons gave up an academic career to work in technology because he wanted to do something 'practical'. Now the world is adopting his systemBefore Bright Simons became one of Africa's most dynamic technology innovators, he was an astrophysicist. He won a scholarship to Durham University but decided in the end that it was "not sufficiently practical". Read more