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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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Would You Buy Made In Nigeria? The Nation Must Build A Tech Industry Before Firms

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James T Collins
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What do you think of when you first hear the phrase “made in China”? There was a time when that term stood only for inferior and counterfeit goods, but not any more. “Made in China” is a changing and growing brand across the world.

 

Now what about “made in Nigeria”?

 

Speaking in terms of the arts, music, culture, fashion, this might not be a problem, but how about a made in Nigeria car, flats screen plasma 3D TV, or an android powered smart phone? Sure, that is another matter.

 

As passionate as I am about the development of this country, and as a player in the technology sector, aspiring for the day when every gadget in the average Nigeria home, can be made in Nigeria; however, I would never buy a “made in Nigeria” product out of sentiment.

 

IT MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO OFFER.

 

I know we still have a long way to go, but if we must become a force to reckoned with in quality design and products, when even while starting small, we must start well.

 

These are my expectations of Made in Nigeria products

 

Quality

The first point of call is quality. I have no reason to buy an iPad when an Ovim can give me what I want. With the advent of the Android platform, almost every special feature offered on the iPhone is being offered on the Android, the only thing left is qaulity.


There is this widespread attitude of sacrificing quality for quantity, and it’s one of the greatest killers of progress, we must avoid it like a plague.

 

Customer Support

If I want a phone, I would rather buy a Nokia because of its reputation of durability, and the fact that Nokia care centers are everywhere  and I can always get repairs and anything I need. As for laptops, I’ll go for HP. This may seam like a small issue but no one would like a product that can never be repaired even if it has a little fault.

 

Constant development and Innovation

Bill Gates once admitted that the heart of the Tech industry is constant innovation, anyone that fails to constantly change and improve will die out quickly. there is no tech giant now that hasn’t at least two to three innovations within this year alone. Apple has the iPAD2, the iCloud is coming out soon, and rumors of the iPhone3 is in the air as well. Microsoft is introducing Win8, Dell is delving into Table PCs, just name it. We must be prepared to start, and never stop innovating.

 

Local Content

Constant innovation is not possible if the intellectual property was entirely imported. Some local brands are only involved in assembly and marketing of their products, the entire technical work is done abroad, making it impossible to upgrade and improve on at will. This has to change and is obviously changing. Manpower must be trained and innovation encouraged. We can only preserve and improve on technology that we own.

 

I must highlight this point  which believe in so much: We must first build an industry before building businesses. By this I simply mean that no tech industry in Nigeria will reach the significant international prominence if we all don’t work together first to build an industrial platform and foundation upon which any company can stand and build an international brand. This foundation needs knowledge sharing, sacrificial investment in research and development, and significant plowback of profits at the onset.

 

Looking forward to Made in Nigeria products competing on the Global market.

Parts, Kits, Tutorials, Forums, Tools And More – This Is Where To Find Them Online

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James T Collins
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The internet has become indispensable to our lives as humans and more so as professionals in a global market.

I had a friend post on Facebook “how can I obtain ENERGY from FREQUENCY PULSES” and he got the response “ By boiling the frequency pulses in a pot for over 30mins”

When he told me, I thought to myself “what do you expect when you post a technical question on a social network like Facebook?”

As professionals, we always need to know where to find it online. This is a short list of some of the best online tech forums, please feel free to update this list with some that you know.

Programming Forums

www.stackoverflow.com

This is an awesome platform for everyone into everything, including programmers. News has it that in some quarters, ones “reputation” on stack exchange actually helped secure a job. The forum is unique in its layout, and loaded with professionals in practically every programming language and field.

In addition, there are sister-sites called stackexchange sites like electronics.stachexchange.com,  android.stackexchange.com, webapps.stackexchange.com, security.stackexchange.com and others. The stackexchange sites can be accessed from the top right corner of the stackoverflow site.

www.element14.com

This is one of the fastest growing design engineering communities, with links to ask professionals, discussion board, blogs, design works, and so many other things.

www.eetimes.com

This is an awesome site with advanced tutorials on cutting edge technology, constant webinars, trainings schedules, conference informations and the whole works.

For beginners to intermediate embedded forums, check out the following

www.electro-tech-online.com I have been using this site since my second year as an undergraduate and it has been great

www.edaboard.com

www.8051projects.net

Of course a good place to find datasheets, application notes (these are one of the most relevant information you could get on any product) and latest information, visit manufacturer websites and forums. From these sites you can easily find information and data sheets on chips, microcontrollers, application notes, sample codes, code libraries and much other useful information.

www.ti.com for texas instrument

www.microchip.com for microchip

www.mikroe.com for a wonderful range of development boards on various microcontrollers and peripherals like touch panel displays, GMS/GPRS/GPS modems, sensors, PLC kits, compilers, etc

www.arm.com for everything you need or ARM based chips

www.cypress.com for cypress series of MCUs and the interesting PSOCs

www.maxim-ic.com for maxim chips,

Application programming is not left out, as we also have

Android Developer

where you can find practically everything you need to start up with android development. The good thing is the entire website including the complete SDK, samples, tutorials, and complete android documentation can be downloaded  from the download section on the home page.

The Java Tutorials

This provides a wonderful tutorial on Java development. The entire site with all detailed explanation, tutorials and a long list of sample codes can also be download free from the website.

Various other resources about for all other programming languages and design platforms.

I’m yet to find a single question that I couldn’t get an answer to online, so let’s maximize the resources of the web.

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