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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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Weak policies harming circular economy path in Africa
April 24, 2018 | Blog
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)
April 23, 2018 | Blog
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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How scientists listening to the earth can unlock Africa’s many riches
April 21, 2018 | Blog
“As a computational seismologist, I use these sensors to build images of the earth’s interior. It’s like holding a stethoscope to the earth’s surface and using a computer to reconstruct the anatomy of the planet. From mountain peaks to the inaccessible red hot depths of Earth’s inner core, the invisible is made visible,” Dr. Tolulope [...]
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Heads of state throw their weight behind science
April 8, 2018 | Blog
Science had a place in society “whether we support it or not”. However, “we would be the ones losing if we didn’t support it for the benefit of our people”, H.EPaul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwandaemphasizes the importance of partnerships in the development of science & technology at the NEF Global Gathering 2018. [...]
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A Pan-African Scientific Journal dedicated to African research launched
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An open access inter- and multidisciplinary scientific journal known as Scientific African was launched at the NEF Global Gathering 2018, in Kigali, Rwanda by the NEF Chair Mr. Thierry Zomahoun and Mr. Ron Mobed, Elsevier. The journal aims to offer African researchers and scientists the opportunity to publish and showcase their research works. According to Benjamin Gyampoh, [...]
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MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE TO BE ELEVATED ACROSS THE CONTINENT WITH SUBSTANTIAL SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
April 7, 2018 | Blog
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 [...]
Kigali Declaration
April 5, 2018 | Blog
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… [...]
Overcoming Barriers, African Scientists Creating Award-winning Innovations
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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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African governments challenged to catch up with technological advancements
March 29, 2018 | Blog
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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SciDev.Net launches Script training course
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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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Africa’s Future Rests On Her Scientists And Innovators
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“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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Building Wakanda: Africa’s search for the next Einstein
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“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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NEF Global Gathering 2018 Program
March 25, 2018 | Blog
Download the NEF Global Gathering 2018 Program (ENG) here. Rencontre Internationale du NEF 2018 – Programme [...]
Smart Care Tech project: Integrated Smart technology for visually impaired people
March 22, 2018 | Blog
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 [...]
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Working towards Africa’s Energy Independence
February 15, 2018 | Blog
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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Jonathan Esole soutien des talents congolais
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“Former une nouvelle génération de chercheurs congolais” est devenu son mot d’ordre. En attendant de mettre sur pied des écoles d’été, il soutient plusieurs initiatives. D’abord, entre le 9 et le 14 avril 2018, les Kinois pourront le croiser, lors de la cinquième édition de la “Semaine de la science et des technologies”, organisée à l’initiative de [...]
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NEF Community of Scientists Annual Meeting- Day3
