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Develop Best Climate Change App, Get $10,000 from RIM and Telefónica – Due June 17

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The International Telecommunication Union-ITU launched a Green ICT Application Challenge to find the best and most innovative idea for a climate change focused application. The winning concept will be awarded USD10,000, thanks to challenge sponsors Research in Motion (RIM) and Telefónica.

 

As well as the cash prize, the winner will be invited to present their concept to a prestigious audience at ITU’s Green Standards Week in Italy in September. In addition, the winning app may be developed and showcased during a side event to be held at the COP-17 climate change talks in South Africa in December.

 

The Green ICT Application Challenge ITU’s way of spurring a next wave of innovation tackling real world problems.

 

The objective of the competition is to push contestants to think outside the box and develop concept papers for an ICT application that will be a truly valuable contribution to the green ICT industry.

 

Challenge sponsors RIM and Telefónica both recognize that ‘green’ applications for web and mobile devices have great potential to contribute to climate change abatement worldwide. While there are many apps on the market that target carbon footprinting, this Challenge aims to move to the next stage, with apps that focus on, for example:

 

  • Mitigation of climate change through energy efficiency in sectors such as smart buildings, intelligent transportation systems, smart homes, etc.
  • Community engagement
  • Eco-design
  • Monitoring of climate change
  • Measurement of GHG emissions
  • Adaptation to climate change (e.g. use of applications for emergency telecommunications and alerting systems for disaster relief)

Contestants are asked to submit a detailed concept paper with an explanation of how their idea helps combat climate change and provides an ICT solution to environmental or sustainability issues. Entries may be any kind of software tool or game, be it for the web, a personal computer or a mobile device. The closing date for entries is 17:00 CET, 17 June, 2011.

 

More information, including rules and entry requirements, is available at: www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/greenict/index.html Sponsorship opportunities are available for the Green ICT Applications Challenge. For information, please contact:  greenstandard@itu.int.

 

Mobile Crop Disease Surveillance – Using Camera Images To Diagnose Crop Diseases

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Mobile Crop Disease Surveillance by Makerere University Students in Uganda is a highly automated smartphone-based survey system for crop disease, which uses camera images to diagnose viral damage and puts survey information online in real time. The system will be launched into the market, late this year, by the students. It is right now in beta but is expected to offer a new paradigm that combines embedded systems that captures image processing and apps.

 

Established in 1922 as a humble technical school, Makerere University is one of the oldest and most prestigious Universities in Africa. In January of that year, the school, which was later renamed Uganda Technical College, opened its doors to 14 day students who began studying Carpentry, Building and Mechanics.

Some Ideas from Just Concluded Kenyan Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK3)

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These are some ideas from the just concluded RHoK3 Kenya.

 

OneCrisis will be a non-profit, non-governmental portal for those who want to assist in humanitarian emergencies. The RHOK OneCrisis task is to develop a website for those who want to help and those who need help.  Lay responders will enter in basic information about their location, skills, and general availability. They will also say whether they can be a local coordinator for OneCrisis.  They will be able to integrate this with existing social media platforms (e.g. facebook).  Management functions will also be needed, including the ability to get aggregated statistics on volunteers by location, skill category, availability, event and other variables.  Those who are affected can post specific problems by event which responders can then sign up for.  Overall, think of an ongoing RHOK type system.

 

Populations Center Query tool: Population query is a query that extracts a list of locations (town, county, district) from data set and shows their population counts and GPS coordinates and other key information that helps us assess the situation.

 

Drought Monitoring: Drought originates from a deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time, resulting in a water shortage for some activity, group, or environmental sector. Whatever the definition, it is clear that drought cannot be viewed solely as a physical phenomenon. 

 

Mapping needs and responses to a crisis: Current technologies allow damage or incident reports to be mapped, providing a clearer picture of the overall situation.Since crisis response usually involves a multitude of stakeholders, COORDINATION of the response is very important to avoid duplication of efforts and ensuring that (ideally) all needs are met. Current technologies don’t seem to go beyond the mapping of reports however.I believe that it would be of great use to the stakeholders involved in the response to be able to also map the NEEDED responses (e.g. in terms of number of items and their specifications required, possibly linked to a group of received reports), as well as the ACTUAL responses (by donors making funds available or local businessmen contributing some of the needed materials or even diaspora clicking on a “donate” button to contribute to the response in their community). This combined information would allow us to clearly show the gaps.A public and open source platform seems the perfect solution for this but to date I have not been able to find a solution that brings these elements together.

 

Microsoft Partners With Paradigm Initiative Nigeria On NGO Academy – June 15 & 16, Abuja

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The global software giant, Microsoft,  and Paradigm Initiative Nigeria will host a networking and information-sharing event for non-profit organizations in Abuja on June 15 and 16, 2011. The event website is here where participants can register.

 

The Academy will offer an interactive capacity-building program to further enhance skills in ICT, allow NGO staffs learn more about Microsoft’s opportunities for non-profits, provide technical demonstrations of Microsoft products and give NGOs the opportunity to network with relevant institutions. Participants of an earlier edition that held in Lagos opined that the NGO Connection Day event gave them the opportunity to discuss technology use in their work, learn more about technology tools and establish faster online presence that helped make their information available to a much wider audience.

 

The event will also present a Tech4Dev Award which will be announced in the program.

 

IntelliPharmaCeutics – How Is This Nigerian Connected Company Doing In NASDAQ?

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IntelliPharmaCeutics Intl Inc was created by Nigerian couple living in Canada.  It a pharma company that operates from Canada. Recently it was listed on the NASDAQ and traded as IPCI. The stock has a value of $3.74 with a yearly low – high of  $2.05 -$ 6.12. Of course, they will push that stock higher in coming months and years. Tekedia profiled this company and couple few weeks ago; they are awesome.

What is IntelliPharmaCeutics Intl Inc?

We are engaged in the research, development, and commercialization of controlled-release and targeted pharmaceutical products. Controlled-release means releasing a drug into the bloodstream or at a target site in the body, over an extended period of time or at predetermined times. In some circumstances, controlled-release drug delivery can enhance efficacy and patient compliance as compared to immediate release formats for the same drug.

Our proprietary Hypermatrix™ technology is at the core of our controlled-release drug delivery approach. The flexibility of the Hypermatrix™ technology allows for the intelligent and efficient design of drugs through the precise control of a number of key variables. This allows us to respond to varying drug attributes and patient requirements, producing a desired controlled-release effect in a time and cost-effective manner.

The founders

Isa Odidi, Ph.D., MBA

Chairman, CEO, CSO
In 1998, Dr. Isa Odidi co-founded Intellipharmaceutics Inc., the predecessor of publicly-traded Intellipharmaceutics International Inc. From 1995 to 1998, Dr. Odidi held positions, first as Director, then as Vice President of Research of Drug Development and New Technologies, at Biovail Corporation International (now Biovail Corporation), a drug delivery company. Prior to 1995, Dr. Isa Odidi held senior positions in academia and in the pharmaceutical and health care industries. His work has been cited in textbooks and he has published over a hundred scientific and medical papers, articles, and textbooks. He currently holds a Chair as Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Toronto Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology in Canada, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Molecular Medicine in California. Dr. Odidi received his B.Sc. degree in Pharmacy, and his M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Technology and his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the University of London. Dr. Odidi is also a graduate of the Western Executive Management Program and obtained his MBA from the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto.
Amina Odidi , Ph.D.

President, COO, CSO
In 1998, Dr. Amina Odidi co-founded Intellipharmaceutics Inc., the predecessor of publicly-traded Intellipharmaceutics International Inc. She has been President, COO, and Co-Chief Scientist since 1998. Dr. Amina Odidi has extensive experience developing and applying proprietary technologies to the development of controlled-release drug products for third-party pharmaceutical companies. She is constantly being blogged about on small but noticeable websites like pharmawatchdogs.com. She has invented or co-invented various proprietary controlled delivery devices for the delivery of pharmaceutical, nutriceutical, biological, agricultural and chemical agents. Previously she has worked for the pharmaceutical and health care industry. She has co-authored 8 articles, papers and textbooks. She received her B.Sc. in Pharmacy, M.S. in Biopharmaceutics, and her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the University of London.
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