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How to Renew Your Tekedia Subscription

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Good People,

If your Tekedia subscription has expired, you can do two things to renew:

  • Transfer N7,000 to our bank account and we will renew your subscription (bank details here)
  • Use Paypal and pay $20. You can use the link on your profile or this one here. With the Paypal link in your profile, the renewal is done automatically after payment.

Once you make the payment, email Nky at tekedia@fasmicro.com and I will affect the renewal.

For new subscribers, use this link to sign-up.

We love having you here. We are releasing the updated version of Africa’s Sankofa Innovation by the end of October, and two other books – The Dangote System: Techniques for Building Conglomerates  and Zenzeleni Innovation: Gears to Start and Build an African Startup will follow.

Prof has been writing during his extended trip across Nigeria and Africa. I will be working with my team to get all the tech things done.

*Zenzeleni means “do it yourself” in isiXhosa, a leading Southern African language, spoken in Eastern Cape. It is the area’s most prevalent language.

Nky Udo

Bayer Foundations Honours Zenvus as “Pioneer” in Aspirin Social Innovation Award

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Zenvus, the agtech subsidiary in Fasmicro Group, has been nominated for the Bayer Foundations’ Aspirin Social Innovation Award. The nomination is invitation-only, meaning that only Bayer Foundations can nominate a company.

The Aspirin Social Innovation Award honors disruptive impact innovations in health and nutrition from around the world that have the potential to bring about systematic change for the rising billions in need.

The award is open for social impact pioneers whose innovations offer new solutions for improving health care or to end global hunger.

Zenvus makes sensors which turn farmers into businesspeople, replacing guesswork technology which has been used for decades in Africa with data-driven technology. The data-driven technology empowers farmers to make decisions based on data. The outcome is higher yield which typical leads to better welfare for the farmers.

This is the Zenvus page on this award. We are representing Nigeria in this program.

 

 

 

How To Grow Your Consulting Business in Nigeria

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In this piece, I explain the challenges and the state of the consulting services industry in Nigeria. Then, I provide how consultants can position to win in the Nigerian economy. Always remember that Nigeria has more skilled experts (especially at the top) than the economy can absorb. With that paralysis, the supply of consultants is […]
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Zenvus API Goes To Improve Soil Water Holding Capacity

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Today, we entered a major relationship with one of the largest players in Nigerian agriculture. He has used one technology which makes it possible for the soil to hold up to 80% of water bodies that pass through it. It is a soil water trap which traps water, making sure crops have just enough they need for normal growth. The founder of this business is a business legend with a great vision on how to fix some of the major challenges associated with climate change in agriculture.

I am happy to share that Zenvus API will help in not just managing everything in the farms but also anchor the company’s initiative to invest in thousands of farmers through input support and produce purchase relationship. We work with farmers and this company is providing a top-grade support to farmers. In coming weeks, I will share more after the details have been harmonized. The strategy is to work through farming cooperatives across Nigeria. Please if you have a cooperative of at least 1,000 farmers, contact our team immediately for details.

Our Zenvus Services helps institutions work with farmers at scale.

Using the Zenvus Services, we do the following for institutions who work with farmers:

  • Offer a leading platform through zCapital. If you want to run insurance, we provide zInsure. These services reduce frictions in supporting farmers through legendary transparency and process improvement.
  • Map the boundaries of the farms to capture all farms which are going to be part of the initiative. Zenvus Boundary handles that.
  • Get farmers to record their farming activities via
  • Return back to the farms to buy from farmers. You might have given the inputs to be paid back with farm produce – Zenvus Services will help you on that. You can use enterprise zPrices to track prices of commodities as you buy from farmers, making sure there is no price asymmetry.
  • Guarantee farm to factory via Kobo partnership coordinated locally by zMarkets

[Apply] Google AI Residency Program Accepting Applications

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The Google AI Residency Program is a 12-month research training role designed to jumpstart or advance your career in machine learning research. There is a branch in Ghana managed by M. Cisse. He has put the call that people should apply. If you want to join the kings and queens in this exciting world of AI, go immediately and apply. Make sure you are not telling them how you could build a better AI for jumping cats. Focus on how you could fix a local problem in Africa (food poison, weather,  agro, etc). Google has many people working on jumping cats, etc.

The program was created in 2015 with the goal of training and supporting the next generation of deep learning researchers. With machine learning fast becoming a critical area for a broad range of applications, we recognized the need to evolve our research goals and expand beyond deep learning to include a breadth of machine learning subfields. People from a wide range of disciplines are beginning to realize the importance and impact of this area of research. With growing interest in the field, there is a corresponding need for researchers with hands-on experience in machine learning techniques and methodologies.

Residents will have the opportunity to be mentored by distinguished scientists and engineers from various teams within Google AI, and work on real-world machine learning problems and applications. In addition, they will also have the opportunity to collaborate and partner closely with various research groups across Google and Alphabet.

APPLY

Applications for the 2019 program are now open!

Our team will review applications on a rolling basis, so it is in your best interest to submit your application as soon as possible. Visit g.co/airesidency/apply for more details about this opportunity and how to apply.

 

Sources from Google website