Crop2Cash, an Agri-Tech startup which connects farmers with capital and markets, has emerged winner of the Nigerian edition of the Global Early-Stage Startup Competition, Seedstars, for 2019.
Medical Startup Doctoora, and e-commerce platform, Traders of Africa came second and third place respectively.
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Team Requid has emerged the overall winner of the maiden edition of X-Kathon, a Hackathon designed by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) to encourage technology enthusiasts to develop innovative financial technology (fintech) solution to drive up millennials participation in the capital market.
Team Requid receives the grand prize of ₦5 million.
The winner made the top 10 teams, including: Echo Trade; Koin-Jar; King; Finfit; Fantasy Stock Exchange; Stritbid; Trove; Investors Masterclass and Nigeria Learn.
The second position was occupied by Team Trove, which received ₦3 million and Team Investors Masterclass, which got ₦2 million.
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Chiniki Guard, a Nigerian Information Communication Technology (ICT) start-up application, has won the best prize of $10,000 in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) category competition at the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX), which held in Dubai.
Chiniki Guard is an artificial intelligence security solution for retail stores and supermarkets, designed to monitor, detect and alert shop owners about shoplifting and suspicious behaviour in real time.
Chiniki Guard was among the 34 start-ups in the category of the Supanova finalists at the GITEX Future stars competition.
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Winners have emerged in the ITU Young ICT Leaders’ Forum (YILF) Innovation Challenges 2019, which took place from September 3-6 in smart city of Busan, Republic of Korea.
The Young ICT Leaders’ Forum is an annual event organized by ITU and Busan Metropolitan city. It gathered youths worldwide to learn and to share ideas about ICT development and innovations.
The 6th edition of the Young ICT leaders under the overall theme of “Mind the gap: Sustainability and Impact in Smart Cities” explored a first gap where youth entrepreneurs are inhibiting from addressing the right problems in their community, a second gap where their solutions are unable to scale in an increasingly complex and interdependent world.
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Team Tech Dolphs have emerged overall winner of the 2019 Beyond School Community Challenge with a cash reward of ₦350,000.
Team Tech Dolphs from Divine Progress School, Kaduna State was honored by the United States of America embassy in Nigeria after creating an app that could help people with disability.
Team Green Tech from Topfield College, Ajegunle, Lagos State emerged in second position with a cash reward of ₦250,000 while Team Recyclarts from the African Church Model College, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos finished third with a cash reward of ₦100,000 and six (6) month mentorships.
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Dr. Andrew Oke-‘Ovie Akala of the Department of Physics and Deputy Director, APD, Distance Learning Institute (DLI) of the University of Lagos has been announced as the recipient of the 2019 Africa Award for Research Excellence in Space Science.
The Award was conferred on him by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as recognition for his completing significant research in space science as an early career scientist from the African Continent.
Data Science Nigeria (DSN) has received the Wangari Maathai 2019 Impact Award in Kenya and emerged the second best at the first Deep Learning Indaba Continental event in Tunisia.
The Founder of the Data Science Nigeria (DSN) Mr. Bayo Adekanmbi in Kenya, received the Wangari Maathai 2019 Impact Award for training Nigerian data scientists and strengthening the African machine learning and Artificial Intelligence ecosystem more broadly.
At the first Deep Learning Indaba Continental event in Tunisia, DSN presented 5 posters and the ‘NaLie’ crowdsourced app.