What role can Africa play in the quantum revolution? Q&A on Africa’s position to lead the quantum tech revolution with Thierry Zomahoun, Founder and Next Einstein Forum Chairman, a platform that helps foster collaboration among young African scientists, in an effort to raise Africa’s scientific profile. In an interview with SciDev.Net during the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, […]
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L’Organisation pour les femmes scientifiques dans les pays en développement et au Canada, annonce le lancement d’un nouveau partenariat pour soutenir les femmes dans les sciences en début de carrière dans le Sud, d’une valeur de 3 milliards de FCFA. Le programme vise à donner aux femmes chercheurs de ces pays les moyens de devenir […]
Professor Louis Aime Fono, a visiting researcher from the University of Doliala, challenges African Mathematicians to solve problems peculiar to the Africa environment, as most of them were said to be inherently mathematical in structure and dynamics. ‘Now the main question is, how can African scholars use mathematics to solve problems of our environment because up […]
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Francine Ntoumi est une parasitologue congolaise spécialisée dans le paludisme. Elle est la première femme africaine responsable du secrétariat de l’Initiative multilatérale sur le paludisme. Elle dévoile ses efforts dans le domaine de la recherche biomédicale, notamment la création de la Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale (FCRM), ainsi que les résultats obtenus et ses […]
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DESIGNING FOR AFRICA is the objective of many new technology ventures. Inspired by Silicon Valley, young entrepreneurs are bringing life-improving innovations to sub-Saharan communities. Robert Draper writes in national geographic that, Mark Kamau, Director of user-experience design for BRCK in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, holds a prototype for a mobile weather station.The continent is still a largely untapped market, particularly […]
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Getting a pneumonia diagnosis wrong can be fatal. Ugandan inventor Brian Turyabagye, knows all too well. He has created a biomedical jacket known as Mama-Ope, that’s four times faster at diagnosing pneumonia than a doctor. The problem is particularly acute with infants. According to UNICEF, pneumonia kills half a million children under five each year in sub-Saharan […]
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Economists have long argued that developing countries have the potential for high productivity growth if they adopt existing technologies and apply them to the local context. The report brings to bear a battery of new data sources to explore the innovation “paradox”: despite the potential for very high returns, developing countries invest far less in […]
One cannot deny that we are at an impasse. Globally, countries are trying to fix the gap between education systems and labour markets. How do we improve learning as work transforms? This question is even more urgent in Africa where the challenges of improving access and quality of education are met with serious budget constraints […]
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If you ask most people if they believe girls should go to school, they’ll answer yes. I would guess that most of you reading this right now are offended by the idea of a world where girls are still unequal to boys in education and opportunity. Yet this is the reality for 130 million girls […]
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Meet Dr. Peter Nalos, saving millions of lives in Ethiopia, through surgery at the Bakersfield Heart Hospital surgery and changing lives through education in his spare time. It all started on a journey to one of his favorite places on earth-Africa, where animals roam free, where mother nature always puts on a show. Dr. Peter saw a […]