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June 22, 2015

Investment to Boost African Scientist Numbers

THE MasterCard Foundation on Thursday announced a $25m investment in the Muizenberg-based African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Aims), a development that is expected to support 500 masters students and train 3,000 secondary-school teachers over the next six years. “Maths underpins every aspect of the modern economy,” said Aims CEO Thierry Zomahoun, arguing that Africa needed […]

June 18, 2015

A bloodless malaria test by a young Ugandan inventor won Africa’s top engineering prize

Uganda’s Brian Gitta wins the $33,000 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his invention of a bloodless malaria test. With Matibabu device, there is no need for pricking because it is clipped onto a person’s finger and using light and magnetism, a red beam of light scans the finger for changes in colour, shape and […]

June 17, 2015

STEM Education Will boost Socio-Economic Dev. in Africa

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences- Next Einstein Forum (AIMS-NEI) announced that it will be part of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s delegation to the Francophonie summit in Dakar. The summit, which will take place from 29-30 November, and will bring together heads of state and governments of countries which have the French language in […]

June 16, 2015

Microsoft’s Quantum Mechanics

012, physicists in the Netherlands announced a discovery in particle physics that started chatter about a Nobel Prize. Inside a tiny rod of semiconductor crystal chilled cooler than outer space, they had caught the first glimpse of a strange particle called the Majorana fermion, finally confirming a prediction made in 1937. It was an advance […]

June 16, 2015

Microgrids And Mobile Tech bring Solar Power To Rural Kenya

KAJIADO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a dusty trading center at the foot of the Entasopia escarpment in Kenya’s Kajiado County, John Pambio is deeply engrossed in soldering together a customer’s phone at his electronics repair kiosk. Until nine months ago, Pambio would have had to send the job to a repair shop in […]

June 16, 2015

Airtel Ghana says mobile money service hits one million monthly transactions

Airtel Ghana has attained another great milestone with its convenient, secure and instant mobile money service, by achieving one million transactions in a month on its services. A statement issued in Accra by Mr Donald Gwira, Head, Corporate Communications and External Affairs, and copied to the Ghana News Agency, said this was the first in […]

June 16, 2015

Rwandans Turn to SMS As Mobile Phone Ownership Grows to 70 Per Cent

More Rwandans have turned to short text messages (SMSs) to communicate, with the number of SMSs sent last year rising by over six billion for on-net texts compared to the previous year. According to the telecom sector 2014 report by the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA), close to 7.4 billion on-net short messages were sent […]

June 16, 2015

Citizen science in action: can we forge a smarter democracy?

What makes a good policy? In an ideal world, policies would be put in place to change something for the better. In order to tell whether a policy works, we would collect evidence – objective, non-partisan data that tells us whether the thing we’ve changed is having a positive effect. And before even getting that […]

June 16, 2015

Amazon to deliver parcels directly to car boots

Amazon is testing an addition to its Prime subscription postal service that will see parcels delivered directly to customer’s cars. The pilot service is a partnership between Amazon, DHL and Audi, and will allow a small group of Prime subscribers in Munich, Germany, to receive deliveries straight to the boots of their cars. Michael Pasch, […]

June 16, 2015

Biometrics May Ditch The Password, But Not The Hackers

Passwords get hacked — a lot. In an effort to move beyond passwords, big companies are embracing biometric technology: the use of fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition for user identification. To heighten security, smartphones are being outfitted with biometric features. But, ditching passwords for biometrics may not make the hackers go away. Selfie Security […]