Category: Science & Technology

Chiniki Guard, a Nigerian Information Communication Technology (ICT) start-up application, has won the best prize of $10,000 in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) category competition at the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX), which held in Dubai.

Chiniki Guard is an artificial intelligence security solution for retail stores and supermarkets, designed to monitor, detect and alert shop owners about shoplifting and suspicious behaviour in real time.

Chiniki Guard was among the 34 start-ups in the category of the Supanova finalists at the GITEX Future stars competition.

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Winners have emerged in the ITU Young ICT Leaders’ Forum (YILF) Innovation Challenges 2019, which took place from September 3-6 in smart city of Busan, Republic of Korea.

The Young ICT Leaders’ Forum is an annual event organized by ITU and Busan Metropolitan city. It gathered youths worldwide to learn and to share ideas about ICT development and innovations.

The 6th edition of the Young ICT leaders under the overall theme of “Mind the gap: Sustainability and Impact in Smart Cities” explored a first gap where youth entrepreneurs are inhibiting from addressing the right problems in their community, a second gap where their solutions are unable to scale in an increasingly complex and interdependent world. 

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Team Tech Dolphs have emerged overall winner of the 2019 Beyond School Community Challenge with a cash reward of ₦350,000.

Team Tech Dolphs from Divine Progress School, Kaduna State was honored by the United States of America embassy in Nigeria after creating an app that could help people with disability.

Team Green Tech from Topfield College, Ajegunle, Lagos State emerged in second position with a cash reward of ₦250,000 while Team Recyclarts from the African Church Model College, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos finished third with a cash reward of ₦100,000 and six (6) month mentorships.

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Dr. Andrew Oke-‘Ovie Akala of the Department of Physics and Deputy Director, APD, Distance Learning Institute (DLI) of the University of Lagos has been announced as the recipient of the 2019 Africa Award for Research Excellence in Space Science.

The Award was conferred on him by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as recognition for his completing significant research in space science as an early career scientist from the African Continent.

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Data Science Nigeria (DSN) has received the Wangari Maathai 2019 Impact Award in Kenya and emerged the second best at the first Deep Learning Indaba Continental event in Tunisia.

The Founder of the Data Science Nigeria (DSN) Mr. Bayo Adekanmbi in Kenya, received the Wangari Maathai 2019 Impact Award for training Nigerian data scientists and strengthening the African machine learning and Artificial Intelligence ecosystem more broadly.

At the first Deep Learning Indaba Continental event in Tunisia, DSN presented 5 posters and the ‘NaLie’ crowdsourced app.

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Six-year-old pupil Damilare Akano has emerged Africa’s youngest Microsoft Specialist in the Certiport international certification examination organised by New Horizons Nigeria at its Summer Camp in Lagos.

Damilare Akano emerged winner in the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2016 examinations with a score of 871 out of 1000 points, followed by Master Toluwalese Ayoola Kwaku, a 10-year-old boy who scored 825 while Kolawole Praise Akano, an eight-year-old, scored 800 points.

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Winners have emerged in the Nigerian edition of the 2019 World Summit Awards (WSA) presented by Mr. Amos Emmanuel, WSA Eminent National Expert for Nigeria.

The WSA Eminent National Expert for Nigeria Mr. Emmanuel Amos, President, Programos Foundation shared results with the press, expressing that some applicants and their products have emerged winners in their respective innovation categories having evoked state-of-the-art changes in their communities by producing best local content innovations impacting our society positively after Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs and deserving global and local recognitions.

United Nations World Summit Awards Local Chapter in Nigeria on a yearly basis provides a unique global selection of how digital applications provide solutions to solve local issues.

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