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Internet of Things – From idea to reality, making it happen in Africa

International Telecommunication Union Smart Incubator/WaziUp and WaziHub

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Session 254

16:30–18:15, Thursday, 11 April 2019 Room K2, ITU Montbrillant Thematic Workshop
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Join us for a hands on practical workshop on how to design and deploy low-cost IoT across Africa. This workshop will focus on African user needs driven innovation in IoT, IoT training programmes and demos of real use cases of IoT deployment. This workshop is under the umbrella of the ITU Smart Incubator, a programme that supports technology oriented start-ups in the fields of AI, IoT and Blockchain. The workshop will be delivered in collaboration with the ITU Smart Incubator Knowledge Partners Waziup and Wazihub.

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Line up: 

1. Opening Remarks and Discussion
2. WaziUp IoT Initiative in Africa
3. IoT Capacity building and innovation ecosystem
4. Designing and deploying low-cost IoT in Africa (Senegal and Ghana pilots)
5. Case studies - IoT for fishing, cattle rustling and agriculture
6. Impact analysis
7. Lucky Draw Competition and Closing

Speakers/Panellists

  1. Innocent Bagamba Muhizi, CEO, Rwanda Information Society Authority
  2. Andrew Rugege, Director, ITU Regional Office for Africa
  3. Alexander Ntoko, Chief, Operations and Planning Department, TSB, ITU
     
    WaziUp and WaziHub Workshop Leaders:
  4. Congduc Pham, UPPA, LIUPPA laboratory, UFR Sciences et Techniques, France
  5. Abdur Rahim, FBK, Italy
  6. Fiifi Baidoo, iSpace, Ghana
  7. Philippe Cousin, EGM, France

Session's link to WSIS Action Lines

  • C2. Information and communication infrastructure logo C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • C3. Access to information and knowledge logo C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • C4. Capacity building logo C4. Capacity building
  • C5. Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs logo C5. Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
  • C6. Enabling environment logo C6. Enabling environment
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-business logo C7. ICT Applications: E-business
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-employment logo C7. ICT Applications: E-employment
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-environment logo C7. ICT Applications: E-environment
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-agriculture logo C7. ICT Applications: E-agriculture

Session's link to Sustainable Development Process

  • Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere logo Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture logo Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all logo Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
  • Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all logo Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls logo Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all logo Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
  • Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all logo Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
  • Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all logo Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
  • Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation logo Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries logo Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources logo Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources

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