Digital health innovations key to achieving SDGs

Experts from the 3rd Annual Aid and International Development Africa Summit held close of last month emphasize how good health and well-being is the cornerstone for developing the continent but if not fully achieved, it will be difficult to attain the SDGs not related to health. Boyen explains how with drone technology implemented in Rwanda and Malawi […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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