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posted by martyb on Monday April 09 2018, @01:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the knowledge-is-power dept.

A Next Einstein Forum (NEF) conference was held at the Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda in late March:

[A malaria-diagnosing scanner] prototype was among the research projects highlighted at the Next Einstein Forum conference last month in Rwanda to encourage the development of young scientists across Africa. Organizers called it the largest-ever gathering of scientists on the continent. "We can go from a dark continent to a bright continent," said Nigerian chemistry professor Peter Ngene, who described how he plans to use nanotechnology to store solar energy efficiently in hydrogen batteries.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the current chair of the African Union, opened the gathering by linking scientific progress to Africa's development at large. "Knowledge economies are prosperous economies," he said. "Today, more than ever before, adequate math and science proficiency is a prerequisite for a nation to attain high-income status and the gains in health and well-being that go along with it." The president added: "For too long, Africa has allowed itself to be left behind." As the continent catches up it cannot afford to leave out women and girls, Kagame said, urging Africans not to accept the global gender gap in science as inevitable.

"The movie 'Black Panther' gives positive role models of African women in science," said Eliane Ubalijoro, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, who pointed out the large number of women at the conference. "We are creating Wakanda right here!"

At the beginning of the conference, NEF, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and Elsevier announced the launch of Scientific African, "a pan-African, peer reviewed, open access publishing journal, dedicated to boosting the global reach and impact of research by Africans."


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:19AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:19AM (#664799) Journal

    Okay, so you are at minimum as well-endowed in IQ as I am...but, so what? What does IQ alone get us? Nothing. And why, for all your brainpower, have you remained so antisocial? There is a reason INT, WIS, and CHA are separate dice rolls...

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:58AM

    Intellectual isolation, boredom, and the chance to get told what to do at your job by someone as intellectually far beneath you as they are above retarded folks. On the up side we can do our own taxes if we feel like it.

    Antisocial? Moi? I almost gave up fishing after I got my boat because there was nobody to swap lies with while I waited on a bite like there was on the fishing docks. I know it may look that way to you because I'm unwilling to capitulate to things I know to be wrong just to get along but antisocial is the very last thing I could rightly be accused of being.

    As for WIS, you gotta be willing to listen to other points of view and be open to the possibility that you're dead wrong to acquire any of that off a character sheet. I know I am, that's the main reason I like arguing; stress testing my own point of view if you will.

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