Ngalula Mubenga, an electrical engineer at the University of Toledo, has developed a new technology referred to as a “bilevel equalizer.” The device combines the high performance of an active equalizer with the low cost of the passive variety. The technology arranges cells into sections where each is balanced by a passive equalizer. The entire section […]
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Every year the five TWAS Regional Offices each select up to five scientists to be Young Affiliates for a period of five years.During their tenure, Affiliates are invited to participate in TWAS general meetings and conferences as well as provide feedbackto TWAS on how the Academy can respond to the needs of young scientists in […]
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What does the conference mean to these young Fellows? Speaking one-to-one, Tolulope Ologboji, one of the 16 honored NEF Fellows 2018, explained: “As an African scientist, I have always been outnumbered at conferences.” A geophysicist from Nigeria, Mr. Ologboji has been living and working in the US for the past ten years, as his East […]
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An enriching podcast about the potential and needs of science in the continent by NEF Chair and Founder, and President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Mr. Thierry Zomahoun, here. […]
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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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 […]
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 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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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 […]
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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