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Scientists from across the world have gathered at the Cape Town International Convention Centre for the sixth Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics. This is the first time that the conference is being held in Africa.

The goal is to design health-care solutions based on local data from different sources and to develop and train AI algorithms to address specific needs such as predicting outbreaks in a set region.

A new analysis of COVID-19 cases in Africa shows that for most of the continent’s countries the rate of infection was likely much higher than reported in the initial stages, found York University researchers.

The Jimma Institute of Technology at Jimma University, Ethiopia, witnessed a historic moment on September 25, 2023, with the launch of the Polio Antenna Project—an ambitious initiative aimed at transforming disease eradication efforts in Africa through the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Fana FM Radio News coverage on Polio Antenna Project Kick-off Event which was held on September 25, 2023.This project is part of a Global International Development Research Center (IDRC)-funded initiative led by the Global South AI4PEP Network, hosted by York University Canada. @IDRCCRDI @AI4PEPNetwork_Official

Jimma University and the Institute of Artificial Intelligence have announced the Polio Antenna Project to fully control polio with the help of technology.

Finfinne, September 14, 2016 (FBC) – To control polio with technology, Jimma University and Artificial Intelligence Institute have announced a project called ‘polio antenna’.

The project aims to improve polio pandemic surveillance sensitivity through the responsible use of artificial intelligence in a decolonized approach using local capacity and local data, focusing on empowering underserved groups.

Prof Bruce Mellado, chair of the local organising committee interacts with media ahead of the TIPP conference. The event brings together specialists from around the world to share best practice on Technology in Instrumentation and Particle Physics.

Address by the Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation Dr Bonginkosi Nzimande on the occasion 6th technology and instrumentation in particle physics international conference, cape town – 4 September 2023

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Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation of the Republic of South Africa, Hon. Dr Blade Nzimande, will be opening the 2023 conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP) at the Cape Town International Conference Centre (CTICC) on Monday, 4 September.

The TIPP conference series, the science driven cross-disciplinary conference, started in Tsukuba, Japan in 2009 (TIPP 2009), followed by Chicago in 2011 (TIPP 2011), Amsterdam in 2014 (TIPP2014), Beijing in 2017 (TIPP2017) and Triumph in 2021 (TIPP2021).

The sixth iteration of the Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP) conference was opened at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Monday. This is the first time that the TIPP conference has been held in Africa. (Perhaps oddly, this puts Africa on the same level as Europe, which has so far also hosted only one of the TIPP series, in 2014.)

During the last edition of the 6th Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP 2023), the ATTRACT project was presented by Pablo García Tello who shared some of the lessons learnt during the two phases of this project that could prove insightful for understanding the process of managing R&D&I Innovation Ecosystems.

On Tuesday, September 12th, the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) hosted the national final of Falling Walls Lab Brazil . The event was held at the Rectory Amphitheater, in São Paulo.

We have come to a result for the Falling Walls Lab Brazil 2023!
Denis Tavares da Silva, from FATEC, got 1st place with the project “Breaking the Wall of Fake News” and will represent Brazil in the final in Berlin.

EL NUEVO DIARIO, SANTO DOMINGO.- The Corripio Foundation Inc, resumes the delivery of the Corripio Foundation Awards, which since 2020 were interrupted by the Covid pandemic. This award recognizes the career of renowned personalities and institutions that work for the development of a common good for Dominican culture.

SANTO DOMINGO. The professor and researcher in the Health Sciences Area of ​​the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), Manuel Colomé Hidalgo, was recognized with the Corripio Foundation Award in the area of ​​Natural and Health Sciences, in the Epidemiology category.

EL NUEVO DIARIO, SANTO DOMINGO.- The Director of Epidemiology of the Pediatric Hospital Dr. Hugo Mendoza, highlighted the need to further study microcephaly in the context of the “Sica” epidemic.

Dr. Manuel Colomé was elected as the new president of the Dominican Association of Pediatric Researchers (ADIP), to lead that union during the period 2023-2026.

IMTAvH team made up of researchers César Ugarte Gil, Gabriel Carrasco and Patricia Espinoza, in collaboration with a research team from Canada, will develop a project focused on the detection of respiratory infectious diseases through an artificial intelligence application for cough monitoring.

The epidemiologist Parlo César, a native of the Caribbean country, has been one of the 20 enrolled in the veteran and in-demand course on entomology that the University of Zaragoza organizes every year in Grañén.

The 2023 Falling Walls Lab Brazil winner is a web platform by student Denis Tavares da Silva that detects fake news using machine learning. He will represent Brazil in the global final in Berlin on November 7th.

Denis Tavares da Silva, from FATEC, got 1st place with the project “Breaking the Wall of Fake News” and will represent Brazil in the final in Berlin.

The competition that rewards research and social initiatives that are a creative solution to “tear down walls” in science and technology, will take place in person on September 12th. The event will be conducted in English.

The University of Buea launched project on Artificial Intelligence

Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Digital one-health to control emerging and re-emerging infectious Diseases