Catégorie : Blog
avril 7, 2018
MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE TO BE ELEVATED ACROSS THE CONTINENT WITH SUBSTANTIAL SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Institute of Mathematics and Sciences (AIMS) have partnered to groom about 250 mathematical scientists across each of the 45 African countries by 2020 to lead research and innovation. “If we are going to make substantial progress in industrialization within the next decade, be truly visible in the rapidly […]
avril 5, 2018
Kigali Declaration
Kigali-Declaration_Final-Draft-for-Closing-GG – ENG Kigali Declaration_Final Draft for Closing GG – FR Trackbacks/Pingbacks Au revoir Kigali, bonjour Nairobi! – […] Des recommandations ont été émises lors de ces discussions. Elles sont rassemblées dans la déclaration de Kigali, disponible en… […]
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avril 5, 2018
Overcoming Barriers, African Scientists Creating Award-winning Innovations
Scientists in Africa have long felt they were at a disadvantage simply by being in Africa, but NEF hopes to change that. We’re giving science based innovations and the researchers themselves, the much needed spotlight they deserve to impact our continent and world. The three Ci2i winners walked away with 25,000$ for their innovation prizes at […]
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mars 29, 2018
African governments challenged to catch up with technological advancements
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 a long way to help the continent catch up with the ever-increasing levels of […]
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mars 29, 2018
SciDev.Net launches Script training course
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 aims to roll out across developing countries earlier this week at the NEF Global Gathering 2018.The objective of Script […]
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mars 29, 2018
Africa’s Future Rests On Her Scientists And Innovators
“When Einstein discovered his equation he wasn’t trying to describe the universe. He was just trying to describe gravity. That’s very spooky, that these equations not only describe the universe but they predict phenomena that were unimagined,” said Neil Turok, founder of the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). Building knowledge economies of citizens highly […]
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mars 29, 2018
Building Wakanda: Africa’s search for the next Einstein
“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 giving his keynote speech at the NEF Global Gathering 2018. “The answer […]
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mars 25, 2018
NEF Global Gathering 2018 Program
Download the NEF Global Gathering 2018 Program (ENG) here. Rencontre Internationale du NEF 2018 – Programme […]
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mars 22, 2018
Smart Care Tech project: Integrated Smart technology for visually impaired people
Purposely talking, technology has its vital role and limitless possibility of finding smart and practical solutions. The feature of technology span in wide range of usefulness that serves all parts of the community and certainly help making easy and leverage living condition. As the year 2002 the WHO estimated that the number of people with […]
février 15, 2018
Working towards Africa’s Energy Independence
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, compared to 13,000 kWh per capita in the United States and 6,500 […]
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