Winners have emerged at the Chief Information Officers (CIO) Awards 2020.
The awards is aimed at encouraging technology innovation in different sectors of the economy by honouring outstanding men and women working behind the scenes to drive technology in their firms.
The winners were selected by a jury of technology experts chaired by the Director of Information Technology and Operations at Access Bank, Mr. Ade Bajomo.
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The American Business Council (ABC Nigeria) and the US Chamber of Commerce’s US-Africa Business Center (USAfBC) has awarded three Nigeria-based startups with its inaugural Digital Innovation Awards.
The three startups include: an education technology platform, Afrilearn International; “Lend an Arm” platform, a startup that increases voluntary blood donation in Nigeria, Healthbotics Limited while the third is a platform that addresses the chronic shortage of phytotherapy treatment for jaundiced-born babies with its “Crib A’glow” unit, Tiny Hearts Technology.
They were recognized as digital innovators that are positively impacting job-creation and pandemic recovery.
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11-year-old Ifeoluwa Olusanya has emerged winner of the 2020 Next Robotics Legend Competition organised by Union Bank in partnership with Awarri.
Ifeoluwa Olusanya designed a robot called Tropical Robotic Farming Solution (TRFS) to solve key problems he identified within the agricultural sector. These problems include the inability to detect soil diseases promptly and the lack of ‘intelligent’ agricultural equipment to control the rate of plant nutrients and fertilisers needed for crops to grow maximally.
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Team Nigeria have won the grand first place position in the Cloud and Network examination at the 2020 Huawei Global ICT Competition.
Team Nigeria, comprising of some Nigerian students from the University of Ibadan (UI), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, and University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), won out of over 150,000 other students from 82 countries and regions who participated in the competition.
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Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) have awarded Team Astromania, a team of five young Nigerians, as the winner of the 2020 ActinSpace Innovation Challenge.
Team Astromania receives a cash prize of ₦750,000, laptops, ICT internship programme and an all-expense-paid trip to represent Nigeria in France.
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Team Inclusion has emerged winner of the 2020 Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA) Fintech4wd Hackathon.
The hackathon challenged software engineers to develop innovative solutions to help facilitate microenterprises’ access to financial services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The aim is to improve the operations of MSMEs by providing avenues to raise needed working capital for their businesses and avenues for economic growth.
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Ikechukwu Umezurumba and Dominic Nwaogu, are among the 20 winners of the 2020 International Telecommunication Union Innovation Challenge.
A statement from the International Telecommunication Union said they were honoured at the 2020 edition of the ITU Global Innovation Forum held virtually.