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Tekedia Innovation Forum Prizes Paid – N20,000

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Tekedia has awarded the Tekedia Innovation Forum Prizes. We announced it in April 2011.  The Prize which is in two categories – Comments and  Topic was won by one  person. The winner is a a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University with username exploit.

 

We have made the payment of N20,000 which represents N10,000 for each category. In acknowledging the bank credit, he wrote:

 

Thank you so much for the cash price.I got an alert that 20,000 Naira has been deposited into my account….Thank you for promoting the new Nigeria.

 

Though we later requested he joined our expert team on embedded systems and technology, he has helped us produce quality contents before they started appearing on his by-line. Olabode Olakanmi is an excellent mind who continues to shape the dialogue in Tekedia.  His articles are well received and he writes brilliantly. We congratulate him for helping to build this forum through his contributions.

 

Of course, the token cannot demonstrate, fully,  how  much we appreciate his support and those of others that send articles daily across Africa.  We just say THANKS.

 

 

Motorola Pushes The ECOMOTO Tabeback Recycling Program Further

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Motorola is pushing harder in its signature recycling program in Nigeria. As a strong proponent and supporter of global environmental sustainability and recycling programs, it is leading by example.  Together with its carriers, customers, retailers and recyclers,  it operates takeback programs across the nation.

 

Recycling mobile phones and other consumer equipment

Small products such as mobile phones, two-way radios, batteries and accessories can be dropped into our ECOMOTO Takeback bins at the following address:

 

Motorola Nigeria Limited
African Reinsurance Building
6th Floor, Plot 1679
Karimu Kotun Street
Victoria Island
Lagos, Nigeria

 

Returned products are sorted to identify any components which can be re-used; other materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally responsible way.

 

Recycling business equipment

You should have received details on the process for dealing with waste electrical and electronic equipment from your Motorola sales channel. If you are not sure of the process, complete the Business Equipment Takeback Enquiry Form and a Motorola representative will respond as soon as possible.

ITU To Host 1st High-Level Meeting on the Illicit Use of ICTs. No Venue Yet, Please Bring It To Lagos

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It seems that ITU plans to host the 1st meeting of substance on the illicit use of ICT. Tekedia wants to make a suggestion on the venue since that has not been decided. Our recommendation: Lagos. There is no better place to discuss this than Nigeria. Why? Our guys are not listening; maybe if this is brought closer home, they can change!

 

The First High-Level Meeting aims to identify best practices to address issues and challenges related to the illicit use of ICTs, and share information on recent activities being undertaken by ITU as well as other entities to build cybersecurity capacity. This Meeting will serve as a platform to launch a dynamic process based on a multistakeholder approach for mitigating the complexity of risks which could result from illicit use of ICTs.

 

 

What is ITU?

ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies – ICTs. It allocates global radio spectrum and satellite orbits, develop the technical standards that ensure networks and technologies seamlessly interconnect, and strive to improve access to ICTs to underserved communities worldwide

Challenge to Nigerian Developers – We Need Pivot25 Equivalent That Will Nurture The Apps Ecosystem

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In Nigeria, we have MTN, Glo, Zain, Visafone and other giants like Etisalat, Motorola, etc. We will need to find a way to reach them to give us what is very close to Pivot25. Pivot25 has emerged as a genuine innovation pipeline for the continuous leadership of East Africa in mobile app development, in Africa. How can this be done? Who will do it? Nigerian app developers, come together and chart a roadmap. There needs to be an order.

 

What is Pivot25?

It is an mlab initiative to bring focus on the Mobile developer and entrepreneur community in East Africa. m:lab East Africa is a consortium of four organizations aiming to be a leader in identifying, nurturing and helping to build sustainable enterprises in the knowledge economy. The consortium members and their roles are :

 

  • eMobilis, Education, training, accredition and certification.
  • World Wide Web Foundation – curriculum and content, training and Education
  • The University of Nairobi School of Computing and Informatics for rigorous academic research
  • iHub for community interaction, development space, events and access to capital and markets

 

The consortium’s mission is “to facilitate demand-driven innovation by regional entrepreneurs, ensuring that breakthrough low-cost, high-value mobile solutions can be developed and scaled-up into sustainable businesses that address social needs”.

 

Activities and undertakings of m:lab East Africa will be guided by the following strategic objectives:

 

  • Providing world class business and technical training to high potential individuals on mobile application development and entrepreneurship
  • Facilitating demand driven innovation through rigorous and ground breaking market research
  • Supporting developers and entrepreneurs in achieving their potential with a world class knowledge repository on ICT4D, business advice, couching, mentoring and professional services
  • Providing a high quality and appropriately subsidized physical infrastructure for the initial operations of high potential start-ups
  • Facilitating access to finance and access to markets for scale up of innovative mobile applications
  • Providing quality assurance services for consumers and implementers of mobile solutions through a world class application testing facility
  • Fostering competition for ideas among applications developers and entrepreneurs to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Facilitating the replication of successful mobile applications, between countries, languages and operating systems.
  • To maintain a regional reach, supporting the growth of entrepreneurs with a mobile focus in Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Somalia and Southern Sudan
  • Achieving profitability and sustainability within the first 24 months of operations

2011 TEDGlobal Fellows Announced – Femi Akinde And Four Other Africans Made The List

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In an email communication from our Founder who is a TED Fellow, he forwarded this list as the names of the new 2011 TED Global Fellows. Five Africans made the list, including Nigerian Femi Akinde.  We congratulate the winners.

 

Femi Akinde (Nigeria | US) – Mobile commerce innovator
Founder of SlimTrader, the first platform in Africa allowing consumers to shop for goods and services via their mobile phones through text.

Jodie Wu (US | Tanzania) – Appropriate technologist
Founder of Global Cycle Solutions, an organization developing and selling appropriate tech in the form of bicycle add-ons.
Alex Odira Odundo (Kenya) – Agricultural machinist
Kenyan inventor of the Sisal Decorticator, a device turning sisal plant into fibre, and the Sisal Twinner, a device turning sisal fibre into rope.

Serge Mouangue (Cameroon | Japan) – Cross cultural designer
Tokyo based Cameroonian cross cultural artist + designer — bringing both African and Japanese techniques into his work.

Somi (Rwanda | Uganda | US) – Singer + cultural activist
East African soul-jazz vocalist + songwriter and founder of New Africa Live.

Others are:

Manuel Aguilar (Guatemala) – Energy entrepreneur
Founder of Quetsol, an organization meeting the energy needs of the Guatemalan people with appropriate tech solutions.
Suleiman Bakhit (Jordan) – Comic creator + social media entrepreneur
Jordanian social media entrepreneur creating comics, animation, and games for the Middle East.
Yana Buhrer Tavanier (Bulgaria) – Mental health activist
Investigative journalist working to expose the inhumane treatment of children and adults with disabilities and mental illness in the Balkans.
Monika Bulaj (Poland | Italy) – Photo documentarian
Photographer + documentarian telling the stories of people and places in conflict.
Bilge M. Demirkoz (Turkey | Switzerland) – Particle physicist + educator
Particle physicist + educator currently working at CERN on the ATLAS experiment, looking for new physics.
Julie Freeman (UK) – Tech artist
UK based artist combining science, technology, and natural systems, in order to create work that “translates” nature.

Jose Gomez-Marquez (Honduras | US) – Medical device designer

Director of the IIH (Innovations in International Health) Lab at MIT, inventing and deploying medical technology for global health.


Lars Jan (US) – Transmedia director
US based media artist and founder of Early Morning Opera, a multidisciplinary art lab creating works about “America right now.”
Christine Lee (US | China) – Bio-archeologist
American bio-archeologist working to uncover and better understand
Mongolia and China’s ancient civilizations.
Jae Rhim Lee (US) – Scientific artist
Founder of the Infinity Burial Project, a project developing a unique strain of mushroom that decomposes and remediates toxins in human tissue.
Jon Lowenstein (US) – Documentary Photographer
Photographer specializing in long-term, in-depth projects around power, poverty, and violence — also working to create a foundation committed to social justice through visual communication.
Sonaar Luthra (US) – Water testing innovator
Creator of Water Canary, a water-testing device that collects real-time water quality data from the field.
Nathalie Miebach (US) – Weather artist
Boston based artist using weather data to create sculptures and music.

Genevieve von Petzinger (Canada) – Cave art researcher

Canadian doctoral student studying ancient geometric signs from the Ice Age.
Lucianne Walkowicz (US) – Stellar astronomer
Postdoctoral Fellow studying the effects of stellar activity on exoplanets with the Kepler Mission.
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