(Headquarters: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan; Founder and CEO: Yosuke Kaneko; hereafter “SORA Technology”), which uses AI and aerospace technology to address global health and climate change issues, is pleased to announce that the African Development Bank has published an article introducing a female employee of SORA Technology. The article is written by Mary from Ghana, who is featured in the article.
Mary, a native of Ghana, who is featured in the article, studied in Japan through a scholarship program supported by the African Development Bank and joined SORA Technology after completing an internship. As the first African employee, Mary is now a member of the management team responsible for African business development and is on the front lines of expanding SORA Technology’s services to her home country and other African countries.
This article was published on March 8, International Women’s Day.

Published article and Mary (front row center)

◾️Internship and then the first African employee

Before coming to Japan, Mary worked at the Noguchi Memorial Institute in Ghana, where she used the Japan Africa Dream Scholarship (JADS) to study at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, where she earned a Master of Science degree in Public Health Management. She then began an internship with Sora Technology.
Mary’s desire to solve Africa’s public health challenges matched with Sora Technology’s business of using drones to address global health challenges, as Mary states in the article, “It opened my eyes to using drones for applications other than delivery. After completing her internship, she was hired as an employee of SORA Technology.
She is now a member of the management team and is responsible for expanding sora Technology’s drone and AI-based anti-malaria services to other African countries.

Click here to read the article (in English)

◾ Opportunity Equity and Diversity

Sora Technology has “opportunity equity” as one of its company values. It expresses our commitment to working toward the company’s goals, with opportunities being given fairly without distinction based on gender, age, or country of origin.

Following in Mary’s footsteps, the company employs local people from countries such as Sierra Leone and Benin to achieve diversity in the nationalities of its staff, and furthermore, the organization pursues an attitude of valuing diverse values.

■Sora TECHNOLOGY

We are working on malaria eradication measures combining drones and AI. We are developing our services in African countries with the aim of achieving the United Nations goal of eradicating malaria by 2030. We also aim to reverse innovate the drone operation technology cultivated in emerging countries in developed countries to realize “a sustainable society that is resilient to disasters and epidemics through the use of SORA”.