by NEF | Apr 21, 2018 | Africa, Fellows, Highlight, News, Science
“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...
by NEF | Mar 29, 2018 | Africa, Highlight, News, Science
African governments have been challenged to go beyond mere rhetoric and show real commitment towards the advancement of science and technology. South Africa’s Minister of Science and Technology, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said that a shift in the mindset of all will go...
by NEF | Mar 29, 2018 | Africa, Highlight, News, Science
SciDev.Net announced the launch of a two-year pilot training programme called script, at a roundtable event for editors during Africa’s biggest science conference, the Next Einstein Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, for journalists and scientists in Kenya and Nigeria, which it...
by NEF | Mar 29, 2018 | Africa, Highlight, News, Science
“When we started investing in ICT around the year 2000, many people thought it was a joke. They would say ‘how can you start investing in ICT when people have no food, no education, no access to hospitals?’,” says H.E President Paul Kagame...
by NEF | Feb 15, 2018 | Africa, FeatArticles, Highlight, Policy, Science, The NEF Blog
Over 640 million Africans have no access to energy. This corresponds to an electricity access rate for African countries of just over 40 percent, the lowest in the world. Annual per capita energy consumption in sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) is 180 kWh,...
by NEF | Feb 15, 2018 | Africa, FeatArticles, Fellows, Highlight, Science, STEM, The NEF Blog
“Former une nouvelle génération de chercheurs congolais” est devenu son mot d’ordre. En attendant de mettre sur pied des écoles d’été, il soutient plusieurs initiatives. D’abord, entre le 9 et le 14 avril 2018, les Kinois pourront le croiser, lors de la cinquième...