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April 30, 2018

How secure is blockchain?

Blockchain technology is transforming the way we do business by allowing consumers to cut out the middleman in numerous vital services, reducing costs and boosting efficiency. In this way it has the potential to reduce poverty throughout the developing world. Blockchain is perhaps best understood as a decentralized ledger that can diminish costs by removing intermediaries […]

April 30, 2018

Santé : Regain d’intérêt pour la recherche fondamentale

La recherche fondamentale consiste en des travaux entrepris principalement en vue d’acquérir de nouvelles connaissances sur les fondements des phénomènes et des faits observables, sans qu’ils aient comme objectif une application particulière. Des chercheurs africains se rencontrent le mois dernier en marge du Next Einstein Forum (NEF), à Kigali, ont convenu que l’approche de la recherche […]

April 27, 2018

Africa cultivates innovation to boost global reach

Africa faces the world’s largest shortage of primary and secondary school teachers at the very time the population of school-age students is on track to grow at the world’s largest pace. In addition, 32.3% of sub-Saharan Africa’s children, adolescents, and youth do not attend school, the world’s lowest educational participation rate, according to the UNESCO […]

April 24, 2018

IBM and Twiga Foods Introduce Blockchain-Based MicroFinancing for Food Kiosk Owners in Kenya

With blockchain, the lending process becomes transparent to all permissioned parties involved, from the lending bank to the borrower’s bank and the loan applicant themselves. Blockchains is helping to reduce fraud, since no one single party can append the blockchain without consensus from the entire network as well, employs a series of “smart contracts” which […]

April 24, 2018

For African Researchers, Science Might Be Objective But It Certainly Isn’t Fair

Should African scientists fight to participate in a global academic system stacked against them or do away with it entirely? Jenn Mabuka has “made it” as a scientist. A Kenyan immunologist who was published in “PLoS Pathogens” — one of the most prestigious journals in her field, but she says she got lucky. “All my pieces are published in very high-impact journals. […]

April 24, 2018

In Rwanda education, science and technology are the new drivers of pan-Africanism

Rwanda is becoming a Pan-African centre of learning with conducive atmosphere for centers of excellence including AIMS Teacher Training Program among others and different Universities, significantly with teaching centered on areas that have impact on Africa’s development. The intensity with which the dignity of Africans and the unity of the continent have been talked about […]

April 24, 2018

Weak policies harming circular economy path in Africa

Circular economy — the concept of reducing and reusing waste — could help the continent solve environmental challenges, according to experts during a panel discussion at the 2nd Next Einstein Forum Global Gathering held in Rwanda last month (26-28 March). African countries need to embrace circular economy to lessen waste production and pollution whilst promoting environmentally […]

April 23, 2018

Saliva Technology Application Research Symposium (STARS)

STARS 2018 will once again bring the world’s greatest minds to Brisbane, Australia for the second saliva conference to discuss emerging research, technological advances and translation pathway. STARS 2018 will deliver content around the theme of “Liquid Biopsies”, which will showcase cutting edge scientific methods and explore commercial potential of saliva diagnostics as well as circulating […]

April 21, 2018

How scientists listening to the earth can unlock Africa’s many riches

“As a computational seismologist, I use these sensors to build images of the earth’s interior. It’s like holding a stethoscope to the earth’s surface and using a computer to reconstruct the anatomy of the planet. From mountain peaks to the inaccessible red hot depths of Earth’s inner core, the invisible is made visible,” Dr. Tolulope […]

April 8, 2018

Heads of state throw their weight behind science

Science had a place in society “whether we support it or not”. However, “we would be the ones losing if we didn’t support it for the benefit of our people”, H.EPaul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwandaemphasizes the importance of partnerships in the development of science & technology at the NEF Global Gathering 2018. […]