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Welcome to
Impact Low-Tech

Impact Low-tech is a place where we spread awareness about the benefits of simpler technology and document low-tech solutions specifically tailored to the African continent.

Documenting
Low-Tech Solutions

E-waste awareness

Low-Tech
Light Project

Community-Building

About Us

We made it our mission to improve living standards in African communities

Impact Low-Tech is a project founded in 2022 to address the growing problem of e-waste in Cameroon and the increasing digital divide created by high-technology. Like many countries from the Global South, Cameroon has acquired high tech products over years.

Unfortunately, many communities are now marginalized because of lack of access to technology that could improve their lives, or are inversely, suffering from the accumulation of non-degradable electronic waste in their communities. Impact Low-tech is a place where we spread awareness about the benefits of simpler technology and document low-tech solutions specifically tailored to the African continent.

Our Story

The project IMPACT LOW-TECH was born from a desire to spread awareness about the existence of simpler technology that could positively transform impoverished and rural communities in Cameroon, while providing a long-term and self-sustainable access to light and electricity. We take on challenges with a view to transform entire ecosystems, starting with waste management and recycling in the Global South.

We offer a valuable opportunity for some of the least advantaged populations of Cameroon, to get a life-changing technology in their household or their community. We are deeply committed to help combat the effects of the fastest growing electronic waste born from non-reusable high-tech products. Ultimately, our goal is to improve living standards nationwide by providing information, communication, and educational opportunities about low-tech solutions to Cameroonians.

We're currently working within cameroonian borders. Cameroon enjoys a variety of climates and geographical areas. The climate varies with terrain, from tropical along the coast to semiarid and hot in the north. Not one region is similar. The uniqueness of this country makes it a perfect ground to provide various low-tech solutions specifically adapted to various african climate environment. Impact Low-Tech hope to scale that work across the African Continent.

To document as much information as possible on easily applicable low technologies in Africa, with the aim of improving the standard of living of communities in need.

Our ambition is to build, on a continental and global scale, a community of low-tech entrepreneurs committed to creating sustainable solutions, respectful of the African environment, and accessible to all, this in the in the respect for natural and local resources.

About The Founder

Estelle OWONO BILO’O

Estelle OWONO BILO’O is the founder of Impact Low-Tech. With a background in journalism and mass communications, she made her way through the cameroonian journalistic field and landed a job as digital communications specialist at the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon.

She’s always been inspired by learning new things, which is why she expanded her traditional expertise in journalism to studying a wide range of disciplines related to the digital field. Understanding the importance of the digital field as a source of opportunity for africans, she has been advocating for digital literacy for marginalized Cameroonians.

Along the way, OWONO BILO’O crossed path with the Low-Tech Lab Yaoundé who opened her world to the low-tech solutions.

Having lived both in Europe and Africa, she saw first-hand the damages caused the accumulation of electronic waste and the digital divide created by the reality of high technology.

Working in the LOW-TECH LAB Yaoundé, OWONO BILO’O saw how low-tech could be applied to a problem of existential importance: improving the living standards of impoverished and rural communities in an unstable world dealing with the twin challenges of electronic waste and poverty.

Hoping to create change in her country, Estelle OWONO BILO’O founded the Impact Low-Tech initiative, a digital plateform where she’s spreading awareness on the importance of using low-techs in Cameroon (and Africa) and documenting the low-tech solutions specifically-tailored to the Cameroonian environment.

Volunteers in the associations in 2022

Actions on the ground

Solar Lamps installations

Workshops in 2022

Youths who participated to the workshops

Our Partners

The Impact Low-Tech initiative is partnering with the following organizations:


Low-Tech Lab Yaoundé

Low-Tech Lab Yaoundé is a non-profit association providing opportunities to create simpler tech items made from recycled materials. With a focus on recovery, refurbishment and reuse, Low-Tech Lab Yaoundé continuously supplies economically-marginalized communities in Cameroon, with solar lamps other low-tech solutions such as solar ovens, and dryers.






Solidarité Technologique

Solidarité Technologique (ST) is a French non-profit association established in Cameroon since 2003. Its mission is to promote sustainable technological development in Cameroon and Africa through various lines of action such as the recycling of electrical and electronic waste, the fight against the digital divide, vocational training for disadvantaged young people and advocacy.

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Call To Action

Rethink the use of technology in africa. Help the cameroonians population understand that slmpler technology made from recyclade materials may provide a easier lifestyle and a more sustainable future.

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