(Credit: IBM)With the IBM MobileFirst for iOS Expert Tech app technicians can easily retrieve and share contextual information to quickly identify and resolve customer technical issues. IBM's researchers are currently working to extend the capabilities of the solution to include data on public safety, weather conditions and road works to create a localized view of human mobility.With over 30 million subscribers on Kenya's mobile phone networks covering 77 percent of the population, the mobile phone has emerged as a powerful tool to reach groups without access to financial and value added services. Our technology and education podcast reveals how these programs could become a model for schools everywhere.Toby Kurien, an electronics engineer, at IBM Research – Africa.
The solution uses the threat response patterns of other animals such as zebra, wildbeest, impala and eland, as an early warning signal, without divulging the precise location of the rhino.
(Credit: IBM)IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty speaks to more than 200 South African business leaders about IBM's commitment to Africa at the IBM CIO Leadership Exchange in Johannesburg, South Africa on February 5, 2013. However, a skills shortage is hindering innovation and leadership of new industry in Africa. The Smarter Cities technology, part of the IBM Intelligent Operations Center, is integral to the center's efforts to help the region's IT businesses, developers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and academics drive innovation and growth. Uhuru KenyattaThe lab's research agenda includes the development of cognitive computing technologies that can be applied to address issues in public health, education and agriculture. These capabilities are based on IBM Power Systems and other servers, IBM PowerVM virtualization software, IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems, and IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack cloud management software. (Feature Photo Service for IBM)At the University of Lagos in Nigeria, IBM Research Chief Scientist, Uyi Stewart (center, left) and Research Director, Kamal Bhattacharya meet with students at the University of Lagos to discuss how IBM's Watson system will be deployed in Africa. IBM employees have garnered six Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, 20 inductees into the …
(Credit:IBM)In Casablanca, Morocco, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is flanked by Hightech Payments Systems CEO Mohamed Horami (left) and IBM Morocco Country General Manager Hassan Bahej (right) at the opening of the IBM Innovation Centre in Casablanca on February 6, 2014. This first-of-its-kind initiative is capturing data on everything from class size and grades to school facilities, resources and even sanitation. The new IBM research lab will develop public sector solutions based on social networking, mobile computing and analytics technologies, as well as foster local technology skills in the region. IBM also announced a 10-year, $100 million initiative to bring Watson and other cognitive systems to Africa to help fuel development and spur business opportunities across the world’s fastest growing continent.
With facilities in Kenya and South Africa, IBM Research– Africa is driving innovation by developing commercially-viable solutions to transform lives and spark new business opportunities in key areas such as water, agriculture, transportation, healthcare, financial inclusion, education, energy, security and e-government. This site uses cookies to ensure its proper functioning, which cannot be disabled from our systems. Original solutions are those which set the basis for imitation and have the unbridled potential to leapfrog the status quo. From left to right Anne Onsarigo, Nathan Wangusi and Komminist Weldemariam. In Africa, IBM Research has labs in Nairobi, Kenya, and Johannesburg, South Africa, which are the first on the continent for conducting applied and exporatory research into Africa's grand challenges. The THINKLabâs hologram is set to be a major differentiator for IBM in the Middle East and Africa region. Bidco has chosen IBM to provide IT systems delivered as a service and managed remotely to help drive investment in its core business and expansion across Africa. IBM Research– Africa is IBM’s 12th global research lab and the first industrial research facility on the continent of Africa.
He is using smart sensors and IBM analytics to demonstrate how communicable diseases, such as tuberclulois can, can spread. IBM researchers are already using the hologram to explore future modes of human-machine interaction where 3D visualizations may help to overcome issues with literacy in some parts of Africa and become a powerful new way to deliver services in areas such as healthcare and financial inclusion.âInnovation is a much overused word these days. IBM has been doing business in Africa for more than 90 years. Using the Galaxy display, IBM research scientists showed how they are using Big Data and Internet of Things technologies to help small scale farmers better manage the water resources needed to irrigate and grow crops.Cognitive technologies are a significant focus area of the Nairobi THINKLab facility and will be embedded into many of the solutions demonstrated.âToday, cognitive computing is about to unleash a whole new wave of innovation across Africa and around the world. IBM Global Technology Services is providing implementation, maintenance and disaster recovery services, as well as training for the bank’s staff (Credit: Zitouna Bank and IBM)A healthy mother and child at a Zambian health care center.
(Credit: IBM)Game conservationists are battling to protect the dwindling number of rhinos in Africa (Credit: IBM)Students use the Watson powered portal to develop core competencies for their diverse career paths. (Credit: IBM)L – R: Bruno Di Leo, Senior Vice President, Sales & Distribution, IBM; Victor Hammond, Managing Director, Bankers Warehouse Plc and Taiwo Otiti, Country General Manager, IBM West Africa at the opening of IBM’s Innovation Centre in Lagos. (Feature Photo Service for IBM)
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