We are happy to share that Fasmicro Founder and by extension Tekedia Founder, Prof (Dr) Ndubuisi Ekekwe will speak at Tech4Africa.
He will speak on a topic, titled, From Downstream to Upstream – Mapping Africa’s Microelectronics Industry
When The Governor Lied on Twitter About Election Results – And Then Deleted
Governor of Kwara state, Bukola Saraki, got the election result wrong when he tweeted as below. This is the result if you have not seen it.
The fact is that only 3 House Seats have been called! He got the Senate right.
It is very strange that he could tweet without having his facts right. Was this the designed result that never worked out? This is social media. The world is watching – be careful Governor.
Nigeria Presidential Election – Ten Sites To Watch
This election has emerged as the most “social” in the context of webinity in the history of Nigeria. We are on the roll all the way for the parliamentary election and on Saturday, the big one will not be different.
Election in Nigeria has ceased (for good) to be a one way system – where the organizers announce results in secret. No more. Now, we have the tools to challenge and ask for answers. Recall what happened in Anambra in an election that involved the former NAFDAC Dora Akunyili? The Electoral Officers wanted to manipulate the results – the people revolted. And that triggered investigations, right now, from INEC.
These are the websites you have to watch out
- Google Elections: GoogleNigeria Election platform
- InecNigeria.org: Official INEC’s Website
- ReVoDa: Election App
- Goodluckjonathanfor2011 He is the president and he is the incumbent
- Ngrguardian News It remains a newspaper in its own class
- ReclaimNaija.net: Gives you the pulse of the nation
- NigerianElections.org: The best of the sites in this cycle. Fast update and great info on the policians
- Twitter : #NigeriaDecides; Nigeria twitter hash for second-by-second events on the election
- tekedia.com – why not us? Be here for the results
- Next – Next has a web and app for election monitoring
Google Nigeria Day is May 3-4. Developers and Entrepreneurs Invited
Based on the G-Africa Initiative, Google has announced the 2011 Google-Nigeria Day as follows:
Growing Local, Going Global
We at Google are excited to meet with Nigeria’s software developers, tech businesses and digital marketeers. With a successful G-Nigeria 2010, we look forward to demonstrating the Google web and mobile tools that are driving technological and business innovation here in Africa and across the globe.
Venue of the conference would be:
The Civic Center
Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, Opposite 1004
Victoria Island, Lekki Peninsula, Lagos
3rd May 2011: For Developers
4th May 2011: For Businesses and Entrepreneurs. (registration is full)
Time: 9am both days.
Registration is free and can be found here
Take Your Projects and Theses Global – Post at Afritedia for Free
We invite you to inform your students, professors, colleagues, researchers, and institutions that Afritedia is ready (actually on beta, still working on bugs) . http://www.afritedia.org/
Afritedia is a free service of the non-profit African Institution of Technology (AFRIT). Our vision is to ensure that no African academic, scholarly or relevant document is ever lost. From theses to African technology techniques, from legal notes to seminar papers, from student projects to working papers, etc, we want all data in this database.
Posting could be done by the institution or by the researcher or student. This service is completely free. Should you need a mini-version of Afritedia in your school database, please contact the Team.
Africa – This is your tool. Our grandparents did not massively develop indigenous ways of writing (thanks Ethiopians), resulting to enormous loss of knowledge. Today, we cannot afford to be burning student theses and within few years, revisit a problem someone had solved. For progress and development, we need to collaborate and Afritedia is that platform.