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 AFRIT in Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine (pp.24)
 

AFRIT seminar at Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria



AFRIT founder speaks at TED2010
Fellows program

 

Rainfall School & Business Plan Competition: rainfallschool.org

Our One Firm Per Year celebrates a fully independent African company



                 
Brown
University and the Rhode Island School of Design invited us to speak at 2010 annual conference on globally conscious design, "A Better World by Design" (2010)



We are on TEDGlobal 2010 webcast as associate. Thanks TED.

We will speak at
TEDxChange Amsterdam



News


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new book is on sale.  Fasmicro has a web registration, hosting and design offer for N15,000; then N5,000/year. The Best deal in Nigeria.




            
Selected Projects

                                                                                         

 OmniHealthCell

Presented at TED and now acquired by First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics, Aba, Nigeria

 

 

              
IVC    IEEE Africa MentorNet
Internet virtual classroom portal which will power African Diasporas to remotely teach and lead labs in African schools. A mentoring program that will connect African students with IEEE members.





CO2 & Agro Decision System in Africa
With German based Afrisciences, AFRIT is partnering with four universities to develop a system that will monitor, record and help provide CO2 emission data across Africa. We're motivated to put numbers behind climate policy in Africa.
This project is modifiable to provide soil data and atm condition (remotely) for farmers to make farming in Africa a science.




AddisEdge
This project focuses on documenting and archiving some endangered indigenous technologies in Africa. From local means of repairing bones to treating snake poisons, we hope to preserve technologies which have been refined by Africans over centuries of innovations.
Project is named after Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, the headquarters of African Union.


  Services Mission


                                                                                            
Nominated to  Int'l Advisory Board of World Bank-Nigeria STEPB $180m  grant.
 
Reviewed the Knowledge, Productivity and Innovation in Nigeria: Creating a New Economy for World Bank Nigeria . Developed Microelectronics Thematic area of Nigeria Vision2020

Attends the AU Congress & Invitation of the World Economic Forum on Africa

 

 
The document which has been downloaded in thousands: Integrated Circuit Design.