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Second edition of Next Einstein Forum Africa Science Week begins in 35 countries
KIGALI, Rwanda, 10 September 2018 – The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with Robert Bosch Stiftung, today announced the beginning of NEF Africa Science Week in 35 African countries throughout the months of September, October and December 2018. NEF Africa Science Week are led [...]
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Cities must lead the clean energy drive, says report
Did you know, that poor households in cities spend 14-22% of their income on energy? As urban growth intensifies energy use, cities must lead with efficient fuels and renewables. Cities can implement practical solutions to meet the need of the urban under-served through development models that slow carbon emissions & shift to cleaner cooking fuels [...]
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Cities must lead the clean energy drive, says report
May 17, 2019 | Blog
Did you know, that poor households in cities spend 14-22% of their income on energy? As urban growth intensifies energy use, cities must lead with efficient fuels and renewables. Cities can implement practical solutions to meet the need of the urban under-served through development models that slow carbon emissions & shift to cleaner cooking fuels [...]
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Scientists have created a silicon beating heart
May 7, 2019 | Blog
Researchers have created an artificial, silicone heart to help combat the shortage of donor hearts. The silicone heart has been developed by Nicholas Cohrs, a doctoral student in the group led by Wendelin Stark, Professor of Functional Materials Engineering at ETH Zurich. It looks like a real heart. And this is the goal of the first [...]
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Young African Robotics Designers Sparking at Pan African Robotic competition in Senegal (PARC 2018)
May 6, 2019 | Blog
Technology is taking part everywhere in this modern era of time, specially to face the challenges that require a sustainable development and help less fortune communities to have the privilege of standard living conditions. Africa by its high potential and promising future should be in the front line for implementing the technology that help local [...]
Black Holes, Africa and the Future of Astrophysics
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In a major scientific breakthrough, astronomers on 10 April 2019 unveiled the globally anticipated image, which reveals a halo of hot gas and plasma around the event horizon of a black hole. This discovery confirms, yet again, the predictions from Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and includes the contributions of scientists from Africa. The involvement [...]
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Africa Must Produce Technology
April 30, 2019 | Blog
Maths and science key to future, writes Neil Turok. Angelina Lutambi was born into a peasant family in Tanzania’s Dodoma region, where HIV and Aids has decimated much of the population. Her future could easily have been bleak – but Lutambi had a keen aptitude for maths. Today she is a senior research scientist at [...]
African Higher Education Summit in Dakar, Senegal
March 10, 2019 | Blog
Live Event: The African Higher Education Summit Dakar, Senegal Join global policy makers, entrepreneurs, academics and international development partners as they develop a common vision geared towards transforming Africa’s higher education system. Dr. Khumbah: “Technical mastery differentiates the developed world from the underdeveloped.” Dr. Green: “Africa has no time to waste. We need to look at initiatives [...]
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At Davos 2019, NEF Experts Examine How to Accelerate Innovation in Africa
March 1, 2019 | Blog, Multimedia
By building a home-grown scientific and technology capacity, added to a pan-African ecosystem of knowledge and innovation, Africa can get past most of the stumbling blocks hindering its development, said experts from the Next Einstein Forum at Davos 2019. The experts took part in ‘Conversations in coLaboratory’, a space for world leaders to engage in [...]
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I have no doubt the next great scientific minds will be from Africa
February 5, 2019 | Blog
Low levels of investment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education have the potential to gravely affect Africa’s growth, impeding the competitiveness of many of its nations on a global scale. It is time for a wake-up call. There are signs the continent is thriving economically. But is it sustainable without a workforce that will build [...]
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The Next Einstein Forum publishes first issue multidisciplinary journal Scientific African and accompanying Scientific African Magazine
December 20, 2018 | Blog, News
Kigali, Rwanda – 20 December 2018 The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) – Africa’s global forum for science in Africa – is pleased to announce the launch of the first issue of Scientific African, and its sister publication Scientific African Magazine. Published quarterly, Scientific African is a peer-reviewed, open access, inter- and multidisciplinary scientific journal that is dedicated to [...]
The Next Einstein Forum launches search for Africa’s top scientific talent for prestigious Fellows Class
November 13, 2018 | Blog
We’re thrilled to launch the search for the third Class of NEF Fellows, 2019 – 2021. Application to the NEF Fellows programme is open to Africans from around the world – including those who currently reside in the Diaspora – in all fields of science, including the social sciences and technology fields. Applicants must be [...]
IBM Files Patent for Blockchain-Based AR Helper System
November 7, 2018 | Blog
IBM has filed a patent for a blockchain-based system which will prevent players of augmented reality games entering physical spaces that are undesirable. Augmented reality is a technology which adds layers to physical reality. An example is Zombie GO, an AR game which places zombie in real life or perhaps the most famous example, Pokemon Go. AR can have [...]
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L’Afrique prend sa place dans l’avancée de l’intelligence artificielle
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La grande majorité des experts en IA se trouvent en Amérique du Nord, en Europe et en Asie. L’Afrique, en particulier, est à peine représentée. Ce manque de diversité peut non intentionnellement enraciner les biais algorithmiques et construire une discrimination pour les produits dérivés de l’IA. Ce n’est pas le seul défi : moins de [...]
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Africa’s future needs a better research culture and not just for scientists
November 5, 2018 | Blog
Of the many developmental challenges facing Africa, scientific research doesn’t often rise to the top of the discussion agenda, though thankfully that has been changing with high profile initiatives like the Next Einstein Forum. And yet research and development will be key to the kinds of improvements that African citizens need and expect. The priorities, or [...]
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Look to Africa to advance artificial intelligence
October 25, 2018 | Blog
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing society as profoundly as the steam engine and electricity have done. But unlike past technological revolutions, the AI revolution offers a unique chance to improve lives without opening up and exacerbating global inequalities. That will require widening of the locations where AI is done. The vast majority of experts are in [...]
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Gov’t pledges 1% GDP to support STEM education
October 9, 2018 | Blog
Government has pledged a minimum of one per cent of GDP towards the promotion of research and development expenditure of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in the country. Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has said in many advanced countries, conservative estimates have it that the direct and indirect contribution of [...]
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Second edition of Next Einstein Forum Africa Science Week begins in 35 countries
September 10, 2018 | Blog, News
KIGALI, Rwanda, 10 September 2018 – The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with Robert Bosch Stiftung, today announced the beginning of NEF Africa Science Week in 35 African countries throughout the months of September, October and December 2018. NEF Africa Science Week are led [...]
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Rwanda to Become Home to NEF Secretariat
February 3, 2016 | Blog
2 February – After the signing of a partnership agreement between the Government of Rwanda, the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) will make its home in Kigali, Rwanda starting late 2016. In addition, the partnership provides the framework for the establishment of an AIMS Centre of Excellence in Mathematical Sciences as well as a cutting-edge Quantum [...]
Next Einstein Forum announces 2015/2016 NEF Fellows Class Solving African and Global Challenges Through Science and Technology
November 20, 2015 | Blog, News
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with Robert Bosch Stiftung, today announced the 2015/2016 NEF Fellows Class – twelve of Africa’s top scientists and technologists under 42 years old, working in Africa and around the world. Central to the NEF’s vision of propelling Africa [...]
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Chair Thierry Zomahoun Presents at African Union Commission Meeting on Education, Science and Technology
October 29, 2015 | Blog, Highlight
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) team led by NEF Chair Thierry Zomahoun, presented at the First Ordinary Session of the Specialized Technical Committee on Education, Science and Technology (STC-EST) from the 27th to 30th October 2015 at the Headquarters of the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa. AU Ministers responsible for Education, Science and Technology, and [...]
NEF Monthly Newsletters – July 2015
July 17, 2015 | Blog
NEF Weekly Newsletter – NEF Fellow Alta Schutte and Maternal and Infant Health Inventions in Africa – 17 July 2015 Sent Friday, July 17, 2015 Welcome to the weekly NEF Newsletter on NEF Fellow Alta Schutte and Maternal and Infant Health Inventions in Africa. Meet NEF Fellow, Medical Expert andOutstanding Young ScientistProfessor Alta Schutte A [...]
African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS-NEI) Sign Memorandum of Understanding
July 2, 2015 | Blog
The African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at strengthening the teaching and learning of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) on the African continent. The signing took place at the headquarters of the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The AUC Commissioner [...]
Infrastructure for Innovation
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Infrastructure is both the backbone for the economy but also the motherboard for technological innovation. Without adequate infrastructure, Africa’s economies cannot realise their full potential. The continent’s low economic performance and weak integration into the global economy is in part a result of inadequate infrastructure – mainly energy, transportation, telecommunications, water and sanitation, and irrigation. [...]
NEF Monthly Newsletters – June 2015
June 30, 2015 | Blog
NEF Weekly Newsletter – NEF Fellow Professor Noble Banadda, Cancer Goggles and Cancer Research in Africa – 25 June 2015 Sent Friday, June 26, 2015 Welcome to the weekly NEF Newsletter on NEF Fellow Professor Noble Banadda, Cancer Goggles and Cancer Research in Africa. Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Meet NEF Fellow, World [...]
How Can You Solve The Problems of A Young Population Without New Scientific Findings?
June 26, 2015 | Multimedia
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Panel to explore reasons to invest in African education
June 25, 2015 | Blog
On 4 June 2015, alongside the World Economic Forum in Africa in Cape Town, a panel will explore how investments in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education will drive Africa’s development forward and why the lack of such investment is perilous to the continent’s future. The speakers are Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science and [...]
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UNESCO endorses Africa’s global forum for science and technology: the Next Einstein Forum
By 2050, the UN projects that 40% of the world’s young people will be African. To keep up with this growing youth population and to transition into knowledge based economies, Africa will need to produce a daunting 18 million jobs a year, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). Yet today, less than 25% of [...]
Investment to Boost African Scientist Numbers
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THE MasterCard Foundation on Thursday announced a $25m investment in the Muizenberg-based African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Aims), a development that is expected to support 500 masters students and train 3,000 secondary-school teachers over the next six years. “Maths underpins every aspect of the modern economy,” said Aims CEO Thierry Zomahoun, arguing that Africa needed [...]
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A bloodless malaria test by a young Ugandan inventor won Africa’s top engineering prize
June 18, 2015 | Blog
Uganda’s Brian Gitta wins the $33,000 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his invention of a bloodless malaria test. With Matibabu device, there is no need for pricking because it is clipped onto a person’s finger and using light and magnetism, a red beam of light scans the finger for changes in colour, shape and [...]
STEM Education Will boost Socio-Economic Dev. in Africa
June 17, 2015 | Blog
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences- Next Einstein Forum (AIMS-NEI) announced that it will be part of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s delegation to the Francophonie summit in Dakar. The summit, which will take place from 29-30 November, and will bring together heads of state and governments of countries which have the French language in [...]
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Microsoft’s Quantum Mechanics
June 16, 2015 | Blog
012, physicists in the Netherlands announced a discovery in particle physics that started chatter about a Nobel Prize. Inside a tiny rod of semiconductor crystal chilled cooler than outer space, they had caught the first glimpse of a strange particle called the Majorana fermion, finally confirming a prediction made in 1937. It was an advance [...]
Microgrids And Mobile Tech bring Solar Power To Rural Kenya
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KAJIADO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a dusty trading center at the foot of the Entasopia escarpment in Kenya’s Kajiado County, John Pambio is deeply engrossed in soldering together a customer’s phone at his electronics repair kiosk. Until nine months ago, Pambio would have had to send the job to a repair shop in [...]
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Airtel Ghana says mobile money service hits one million monthly transactions
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Airtel Ghana has attained another great milestone with its convenient, secure and instant mobile money service, by achieving one million transactions in a month on its services. A statement issued in Accra by Mr Donald Gwira, Head, Corporate Communications and External Affairs, and copied to the Ghana News Agency, said this was the first in [...]
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