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Feb 4, 2012: Our Founder will keynote Africa4IT in Lagos this March
Nov 1, 2011: Fasmicro.com that has funded many of our activities makes top 10 out of 3,300 companies in Africa Awards for entrepreneurship.
Nov 1, 2011: We spoke with BBC World Service on Oct 28, 2011 during Tech4Africa.com
July 2011: We are commissioning a study on the informal sector of electronics industry in Nigeria. This is sponsored by Fasmicro.
July 2011: We have confirmed to speak at TECH4AFRICA, South Africa, 27-28 October, 2011
We have confirmed to attend the Chinese Nano-S&T congress where we will deliver a talk, titled, Global Food Security, The Role of Nanotechnology on October 23-26, 2011
Invited To Speek At Chinese World EXPO Center On 1st Annual World Congress Of Nanotechnology
May 18, 2011: We will speak at Apps World Africa June 2011
May 18 2011: We will speak at Social Media WorldForum Africa June 2011
May 18 2011: We will speak at Tech4Africa, South Africa, Oct 27-28, 2011
Feb 22, 2011: Our Founder spoke at Harvard Business School African Conference as a panelist.
Jan 6, 2011: Recent UN expert trip/Freetown, Sierra Leone. The photo shows our founder along with other UN experts. 
Dec 23, 2010: Our Founder will speak at Harvard Business School African Business Conference as a panelist in Feb 2011
Dec 23, 2010: TEDxAmsterdam TEDxTalks
Dec 23, 2010
This is a photo from the Wharton African Business Forum panel. Read the blog post for more.
Dec 5, 2010: We were interviewed in Dutch Freedom Lab studio on Africa, Technology and other issues at Amsterdam (Nov 29,2010). Tape will be out soon. 
Nov 21, 2010: We will speak at UN West Africa seminar at Freetown on Dec 1-4 on Youth Employment and Economic Developments.
Oct 6, 2010: Congratulations to our Founder, Prof Ekekwe, who was appointed Adjunct Professor of engineering by Babcock University (Nigeria).
Oct 4, 2010: We're re-invited to attend TEDxAmsterdam in November 2010. We spoke at TEDxChange Amsterdam (Sept 20, 2010)
Oct 4, 2010: Our Founder will attend Wharton Africa Business Forum/ Wharton Business School. He will be involved in a panel discussion on Beyond natural resources: the future of knowledge-based industries in Africa
Oct 4, 2010: We post weekly (or twice weekly) on Harvard Business Review. We will not be updating the news for new posts. If you want to follow, check our blog as we always link them, daily.
Oct 4, 2010: Go and make your ideas known in our crowdsourcing name for the African thesis project.
Oct 4, 2010: HBR Post: Business Lessons From the Ants
Sept 24, 2010: New HBR post
Sept 20,2010: iAfrica- building mines of knowledge
Aug 30, 2010: If you are a technology company in Nigeria, please help us complete this survey. We are looking for artisans, and not the telcos of the world. Just the small informal economy techies. 
Aug 28, 2010: Fasmicro has job openings in FCT and Northern Nigeria.
Aug 22, 2010: We will speak at TEDxChange Amsterdam
Aug 21, 2010: Fasmicro is running a web registration, hosting & design campaign @ N15,000; then N5,000/year. This is the best offer in Nigeria.
Aug 21, 2010: IEEE African Students MentorNet is up and ready
Aug 19, 2010: New grants opportunities from Gates Foundation Aug 15, 2010: More on Intelligent Mutability Management ( IMM ) Aug 15, 2010: We asked a question (and got promises of support) at IEEE Region 1 Annual Meeting (attending as Boston Gold ExCom Chair) taking place in New York that IEEE must go glocal where engineering does not just push upwards, but also look at those at the bottom of the pyramind. Why will farmers in rural Africa not have the right technology to preserve excess harvest in a world where man has walked on the moon?
Aug 07, 2010: Our book publisher does not have a distribution network in most African nations and we have received many emails asking how to get copies. To order, please visit Fasmicro Ltd website. This is truly a great book made possibly by more than 40+ experts from 20+ countries.
Aug 05,2010: IEEE through its Boston Gold section will be helping African technical students working on their senior projects. We are happy to provide the platform to help African students access some of the most innovative engineering experts in the world. So students, get ready for real mentoring from the pros: IBM, ADI, Intel, TI, Microsoft, Cisco, GE, etc. IEEE is the world's largest technical association. Details next week after we get the page ready.
Aug 03, 2010: Our Founder is mentioned in this article about Obama's talk to selected Young African Leaders.
Aug 03, 2010: The is an exciting article on an interview our Founder gave many month's ago.
July 26, 2010: The final ad of our book which will appear in Beijing International Book Fair is here
July 20,2010: Our new book will make it to Beijing International Book Fair. This was communicated in an email from our publisher: "[ ], I wanted to pass along to you the news that your book will be featured by IGI Global at the upcoming Beijing International Book Fair. It will be featured in an ad in the conference program and on a poster at the IGI Global booth. I believe that this will truly bring you a kind of additional international publicity that can be found in no other place". Here is the art-work; there is also a poster. Buy this book today.
 July 20, 2010: Today we received an email from University of Nigeria Nsukka for copies of our new book. Other schools have also written. We are working to get the publisher to distribute this book in Nigeria. Alternatively, send us an email and we can work it out. Our publisher has a network in South Africa and still working on one in Nigeria.
July 20, 2010: The program for the Brown University’s A Better World by Design is ready.
July 20, 2010: On July 27, 2010, we will attend a panel discussion on development at Harvard University.
July 19, 2010: Our founder will attend IEEE Region 1 Training Workshop and Annual Meeting in New York in August. He Chairs IEEE Boston Gold and has a voting right in the IEEE Boston Board.
July 18, 2010: Our founder was chosen as an expert to debate on To what extent will biomedical implants be welcomed? Will humans want to become bionic? in IEEE magazine debate. His piece titled To and Against: Home Sapiens to Bionics will be published next month in IEEE Potentials magazine.
July 18, 2010: Our founder will speak on the topic- The Design of Nations- during Brown University's A Better World by Design conference this October.
July 18, 2010: AFRIT founder will speak at MIT Global Health Seminar. in October. Details coming.
July 18, 2010: We will attend the 2010 African Banker Award in Washington DC this fall
July 10, 2010: Our studies created this new firm in Africa. More on the way; it's a revolution.
July 10, 2010: Two African universities, Federal University of Technology, and Obafemi Awolowo University along with a federal agency, NACETEM, will partner with us in 2011 Rainfall School.
June 29, 2010: AFRIT is proud to welcome Sam John as our Chief Operating Officer. He will lead the day-to-day operations of our firm as well as coordinate all our country teams. Sam's primary role will be to make our 2011 Rainfall School a success.
June 6, 2010: In multiple press conferences last year at Abuja, AFRIT spoke with more than 50 journalists. Read this one which govt has followed up on a roadmap.
June 5, 2010: We're planning a return to Nigeria for a microelectronics school. Memories of 2009 Program: IEEE News (pp.14), Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine (pp.24)
May 09, 2010: Reviewed the Knowledge, Productivity and Innovation in Nigeria: Creating a New Economy for World Bank Nigeria
May 08, 2010: New IEEE Paper is here. For the complete issue, buy here
May 08, 2010: The new book is out. The cover looks great. Buy one; all proceeds invested into running AFRIT
April 20,2010: IEEE is offering great values to all its members. We recommend for African professors to get their schools to help them join. There are 220 ebooks from publishers like Wiley and IEEE Press which are free with paid membership. With this, you will have access to great books for your classes. AFRIT respects all copyright laws and please do not ask us to send you these contents. The list of the ebooks is here.
April 18, 2010: Our book enters Tower Books Top 100 AI Bestsellers as #1 for the third straight week.
April 14, 2010: For our daily focus/blog, please visit Nkpuhe -a Revelation on Africa . We will not be posting the focus/blog anymore on this page.
April 13, 2010: Our Focus, The Knowledge Economy and Growth in Africa: ...read here
April 12, 2010: Our founder has joined the Editorial Advisory Board, Intelligent Technologies Blog, IGI Global publishers
April 12, 2010: Our Focus, Internet era of Customer Kingship...read here
April 11, 2010: Our corner at EzineArticles.
April 11, 2010: Thank you Charles Prather for sending us autographed copy of Innovation and Creativity in Teams. This book is a masterpiece. We appreciate those wishes! People, this is a great book.
April 11, 2010: Courtesy of TED, management and leadership files from the Executive Coach ... read here
April 9, 2010: Nanotechnology and microelectronics book brochure April 8, 2010: Blogs from my Book publisher on our making Tower Books AI #1. April 8, 2010: Read our Focus: " Beyond Customer Need and Expectation, Perception is King of Market"
April 5, 2010: Thank you Harvard Business School & Hess Fund (1978 ) for giving our Founder scholarship to attend Harvard Business School Program for Leadership Development.April 5, 2010: Read our Focus, "Welcome Web 2.0 and platform-based niche marketing"
April 5, 2010: Read our Focus, "The Economigeddon is near"
April 4, 2010: Read our Focus, "Africa in an era of Disruptive Innovation"
April 4, 2010: On your inquiries, we have put a small introduction to our book, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy which made it to #1 on Tower Books Top 100 Bestsellers.
April 3, 2010: Our founder at African Union congress where he presented a research paper
April 2, 2010: Thank you all for the strong pre-orders for Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy which is out 05/2010. It got to #1 on Tower Books Top 100 Bestsellers today. To order, visit Amazon. A sequel with a Cardiff University professor is coming early 2011.
April 2, 2010: A new focus: Global Productivity = Technology + IPR
April 2, 2010: We are changing Weekly Focus to Focus on Africa since we are writing often.
April 2, 2010: A new weekly focus: Again, lessons from Greece/EU: African Single Currency- Not the best idea, now April 2, 2010: A new weekly focus: Technology and the bottom billion people
April 2, 2010: The planned Microelectronics Rainfall Schools in Africa are going well. Rwanda and Tanzania have LOCs formed. To support these programs, please contact us.
April 2, 2010: AFRIT founder will attend the Executive Program of Singularity University this fall. He made the cut!
April 1, 2010: Congrats to all African Students accepted to the Singularity University scholarship. AFRIT is proud for our efforts to connect you guys to this program. More to come!
March 29, 2010: Generic proposal for Rainfall & Harmattan School in Africa is published.
March 28, 2010: AFRIT has published Africa’s Microelectronics & Knowledge Economy Roadmap. Read Africa's future, here.
March 27, 2010: We sent a proposal to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop cell phone-based medical device that can detect malaria infection using saliva on a PDMS made from soft lithography.
March 27, 2010: Join our founder who is giving a seminar at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, titled Microelectronics & Neuromorphics.
March 23, 2010: This article, The Post-Nigerian Petroleum Era, is getting very popular.
March 21, 2010: AFRIT blogs on CO2 Emission & Agro Decision System
March 18, 2010: Please read this book Young World Rising by Rob Salkowitz (published by John Wiley & Sons) . Excellent, real-life stories of heroes of technology, not just from the developed world, but ALL world. It is a masterpiece on ideas which are changing people, communities and nations and redesigning human enterprises of commerce and industry. The stories will make you think and become a pulse in your community.
March 14, 2010: AFRIT at University of Nairobi, Kenya
March 14, 2010: Our site is GREEN certified.
March 14, 2010: We are organizing a virtual conference Global Redesign & Innovation Virtual Conference (GRIVC 2010) to source ideas on Africa. Please submit a paper.
March 13, 2010: It is happening in New England. Come and learn about engineering!
March 13, 2010: As IEEE Boston GOLD chair, our founder will attend Annual Thinkfest and Catapult Competition at Merrimack College, MAMarch 12, 2010: Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design invited us to speak at their annual conference on globally conscious design, “A Better World by Design”. We gladly accepted.
March 10, 2010: Thank you The Harnisch Foundation for Coach TED Fellows program
March 10, 2010: As IEEE Boston GOLD Chair, our founder invites all to Boston University Technology Entrepreneurship Night (TEN) which is co-sponsored by IEEE Boston GOLD.
March 06, 2010: Our report titled, The Post-Nigerian Petroleum Era is out. Read
March 06, 2010: AFRIT is working on a new book with a Cardiff University business professor. It will be published by Wiley.
We miss being present at BarCamp Babi 2010 at Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
March 06, 2010: Our new book is doing very well pre-release on 05/2010. On Jan 22, 2010, it was #22. Now, it is #5 on Tower Books Top 100 Book Bestsellers. From Austria to Hungary to Washington DC, its presentations are underway.
.March 06, 2010: Introducing TED Fellow by Bloomberg BusinessWeek
March 05, 2010: We just posted a new Weekly Focus: Fixing Public Utilities in Africa
March 03, 2010: our founder will be attending Harvard Business School - Program for Leadership Development; July 2010-Jan 2011March 01, 2010: Thanks Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering (the world's best engineering school) for profiling us in the latest Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine: Winter 2010. The full article (with photos) is on pp.24. 
March 01,2010: Contact us if you want to attend the 10-week Summer program organized by Singularity University. AFRIT founder is helping them to recruit African students for full scholarships in this program
Feb 23, 2010: See an amazing Carbon Offset Certificate awarded to all TED2010 Fellows by Carbonfund.org for offsetting a total of 82.2 Tons of CO2 Emissions. Thank you Harnisch Foundation.
Feb 16, 2010: Please join IEEE and especially the GOLD committee. I have the honor of being the 2010 Boston GOLD Executive Committee Chair. We have an activity at MIT along with BMES on Feb 24, 2010. Come and learn Biomedical engineering at the finest.
Feb 15, 2010: Back from TED. Below is the photo of the TED 2010 Fellows with some TED staff (I'm just behind the lady on Indian attire).
Feb 12, 2010: Read my TED conversation with Senator & VP Al Gore here
Feb 10, 2010: We're hosting a conversation at TED titled Technical Education in Africa. Sat, Feb 13, 10:15 -11:00am (Track 2) . Venue is The Hub, Theater Level 1.
Feb 09, 2010: We gave a talk at TED on OmniHealthCell
Feb 08, 2010: We're at TED conference at Long Beach, CA.
Feb 05, 2010: AFRIT in partnership with Afrisciences, Germany will host a technical Rainfall (yes, summer) School in Tanzania. This was earlier planned for Cameroon. Here is the proposal.
Jan 22, 2010: Please pre-order our book, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy, which has moved to #22 on Tower Book Top 100 Bestsellers. Let us make it #1.
Jan 16, 2010: A Nigerian magazine selects our founder (circled) as one of 25 Nigerian Most Influential Youth of the 21st Century. Also in the list is Nigerian football (soccer in US) god, Kanu Nwankwo.
Jan 09, 2010: Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy, IGI Global, PA, USA (out 5/2010) is ready to pre-order. More than 45 experts from 20 nations contributed to this project. We thank the World Bank for support.
Dec 25, 2009: Bill Gates is one of the TED2010 speakers. I am thrilled as TED Fellow to watch this legend and tech titan speak in person and in the same hall.
Dec 20, 2009: We are looking for Moroccans involved in microelectronics. We have a seminar invitation in Morocco and a request to help nurture a microelectronics club. Please get in touch so that we can put you in contact with the leader of this club.
Dec 19, 2009: AFRIT funded three awards for the best senior projects in the dept of electrical and electronics engineering, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria (FUTO). The first set of awardees have graduated.
Dec 17, 2009: Fope Folowosele, PhD Candidate from the Johns Hopkins University, will deliver an international seminar on neuromorphic engineering as follows:
Title: Neuromorphic Object Detection, Recognition and Tracking
Venue: Old Great Hall, College of Medicine (University of Lagos), Idi-Araba Lagos
Date: 6th January 2010 Time: 10am
Dec 14, 2009: Thanks TED for selecting our founder as a TED 2010 Fellow.
Dec 11, 2009: In this IEEE magazine article (Neuromorphs: replaceable organs of the future?), we made a case on why human organs could be built with electronics, efficiently. Now, we are extending that by introducing Homogurailty.
Dec 3, 2009: Dr. Ekekwe delivering the 15th Public University Lecture of Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Nigeria under the Distinguished Chairmanship of Prof C. Onwuliri, Vice Chancellor, FUTO.
 The ads for the 15th Public Lecture. They were all over campus. 
Dec 3, 2009: We have created a separate website for our publications: afritbook.com. Links to purchase our books are provided therein.
Dec 3, 2009: Read our article, published in IEEE GOLDRush (our founder is the new Chair of the IEEE GOLD Boston Ex-Committee) titled, Around Africa for Microelectronics Awareness (pp 14). It is an excellent piece that explains our mission.
Dec 1, 2010: IEEE 'The Institute' publishes our mission on an article titled Bringing Microelectronics Know-How to Africa
Dec 1, 2009: Our founder is the new Chair of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Boston GOLD Executive Committee. IEEE has the most members of any technical professional organization in the world, with more than 365,000 members in around 150 countries
Nov 25, 2009: Samples of photos from seminars and workshops across Nigeria. For more, visit program page.
Seminar at Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria
Workshop at University of Lagos, Nigeria
Seminar at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
Nov 12, 2009: We just started a blog, titled, Topics on Microelectronics. This comes from the requests of many Africa students which have requested expositions on the various areas of microelectronics.We will blog based on areas students need help.
Nov 2, 2009: We are collecting used laboratory equipment and books (in any area) for delivery to universities in Africa. If you can support, please email us at info@afrit.org. We will ensure that the recipient's Vice Chancellor writes and acknowledges receipt.
Oct 20, 2009: In the 2010 African Union congress, we will present Knowledge Creation and Technology Diffusion: Impacts on Africa’s growth and integration. This talk will make a case that time has come for Africa to drive growth through knowledge and technology. Indeed, over-dependence on minerals and hydrocarbons must come to and end.
Oct 1, 2009: To IEEE, Thank You for publishing our activities in your prestigious newsletters: IEEE GoldRush (pp.14) and IEEE 'The Institute'
AFRIT has sent a proposal to Nigeria's Vision 2020 titled Blueprint for Creative Microelectronics industry in Nigeria.
Marquis Who's Who in America included our founder in the 2010 edition
Our founder is nominated to the International Advisory Board of the World Bank- Nigeria Science and Technology Education Post Basic (STEP-B)
A report on our workshop at NigComSat
We participated as Resource Persons in the Experts Forum organized for the National Assembly Committee on Science & Technology (both Senate and House of Reps).
We have been invited by the World Economic Forum on Africa to Cape Town in June 2009. www.weforum.org
Tribune Newspaper published our article, Need to establish upstream ICT sector in Nigeria, April 15, 2009
We examined the need of moving up the ICT spectrum. The report, titled, Developing Nigeria’s Upstream ICT Sector is here.
N Ekekwe, Versatile Integrated Bioacquisition System, seminar presentation at University of Nairobi (Kenya) School of Engineering, March 05, 2009
We are thankful to Triumph Newspaper, Kano-Nigeria for the excellent coverage of our program on their online and print editions of Feb 11, 2009. AFRIT management appreciates this support . Towards competitiveness and global outsourcing:practical model for microelectronics diffusion in Africa, Int'l Conference on Industry Growth, Investment and Competitiveness in Africa (IGICA), 8-10 June 2009, Abuja, Nigeria
Microelectronics Global Diffusion through Education, 2009 International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, 25-27 July 2009, San Francisco, California
Recent Newspaper Articles (links may be old)
Nigeria in a knowledge century, Nigerian Guardian, Nov 28, 2008 Nigeria needs microelectronics institute, Nigerian Daily Sun, Nov 25, 2008 Nigerian in a knowledge century, Nigerian Triumph Newspapers, Dec 1, 2008 Nigeria and the challenge of 21st century, Nigerian Tribune, Nov 12, 2008 How to attract foreign investors, Nigerian Tribune, Nov 21, 2008 Wanted: New Vision to move Nigerian Thisday, Nov 19, 2008
Nigeria in a knowledge century, Economic Confidential, Nov 2008
Lessons from NigComSat and our technology policy, Economic Confidential, Dec 2008 =============== Internet Virtual Classrooms and Labs: Opportunities for Microelectronics Education in Developing Nations, 7th workshop on Microelectronics Education in Europe, Budapest, Hungary, 28-30 May, 2008
Asynchronous Digital Design in Nanometer CMOS Microelectronics Education, 7th workshop on Microelectronics Education in Europe, Budapest, Hungary, 28-30 May, 2008 Internet Virtual Classrooms in Developing Nations: Challenges and Opportunities towards Mass Literacy, African Council for Distance Education conference, Lagos, Nigeria, July 2008
Security and Risk Challenges of Voice over IP Telephony, IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2007 conference, Las Vegas, June 2007 Our paper was presented by C. Ekenedu at San Diego, USA. He flew from Canada:Challenges and Innovations in Microelectronics Education in Developing Nations, IEEE 2007 International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, San Diego, USA | |
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