Increasingly, the centralized governance models for countries throughout the world fail to provide fundamental services that meet basic needs and assure security, safety, education, healthcare, and well-being of their citizens. Some the worst are in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Despite this disenfranchisement of people by their government, these same countries have hope for the future that comes from youth. Currently, Africa is the youngest continent in terms of median age of its people. It will remain so throughout the 21st and well into the 22nd century making it the seat of enormous human creativity, energy, and impact on the sustainability of the entire planet.

Although youth without training will fall far short of their potential, these same countries enjoy a high level of connectivity through mobile phone networks and Internet access which enables the rapid and rampant exchange of knowledge and know-how among people of all ages irrespective of locality.

Such exchanges create a sense of possibility, generate new ideas, and give rise to unconstrained entrepreneurialism that has an imperative to test innovation within informal economies and local markets.

As innovations survive entry into local markets and attract resources to reach broader, more sustaining audiences, they influence the predominant behavior of people within a large area. The structures and conventions of their formal economies respond with adaptation to their experiences. Change happens and the circumstances in which people find themselves are much improved.

With adaptation as the goal, the four factors contributing to it allow the formula to be constructed:

the formula