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African Centre for Technology Studies

African intergovernmental think tank on science, technology and innovation policy for sustainable development
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Summary

African Centre for Technology Studies is a nonprofit organization[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of nonprofit organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (83 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: technology policy[3], sustainable development[4]
  • Country: Kenya[5]
  • Instance of: think tank[6]
  • Inception: 1988[7]
  • Official website: http://www.acts-net.org/[8]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Climate change[9]
  • Funder: Open Society Foundations[10]

Why It Matters

African Centre for Technology Studies is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . acts-net.org. Retrieved . acts-net.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . acts-net.org. Retrieved . acts-net.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . opensocietyfoundations.org. Retrieved . opensocietyfoundations.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8h ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Field of work → technology policy, sustainable development
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Field of work: technology policy, дублирующееся значение / duplicate value"
  2. 3d ago · Sadads · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → African intergovernmental think tank on science, technology and innovation polic
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'en', 'es', 'no']
    Sitelink count → 4
    Field of work → technology policy, sustainable development
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Field of work: technology policy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/291600|batch #291600]]"
  3. 27d ago · Sadads · 2026-09-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Library of congress authority id → n88210720
    Jstor publisher id → africenttechstud
    Grid id → grid.499654.3
    Viaf cluster id → 141707028
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ On focus list of wikimedia project: WikiProject Climate change, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275141|batch #275141]]"
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