Staff from African Centre of Excellence in Internet of Things (ACEIoT) have paid a three - day visit to KNUST Engineering Education(KEEP) Centre, Ghana, to discuss and explore potential areas of collaboration especially in STEM education. A team led by Assoc. Prof Damien Hanyurwimfura, the ACEIoT Centre Director visited the Centre from 8th to 10th January 2024. This visit was organized under the existing memorandum of understanding that ACEIoT has signed with KEEP for collaboration in (...)
Eight innovative projects being incubated at the UR’s AI and IoT incubation hub where recognized and rewarded 5,000 USD each as a startup capital to implement them. The recognition took place on 10th November 2023, during the closing of a three-day UR Innovation Week in which a university innovation Pod was inaugurated.
These projects were rewarded after they were presented to experts and found promising to be solutions to diverse societal challenges.
These innovative projects are: (...)
On 8th June, 2023, Dr. Joy Kiiru, Research and Innovation Technical Advisor at the Research and Innovation Systems from Africa (RISA), the funder of the IoT and AI Incubation hub project visited the incubation hub and appreciated the progress made so far.
The main objective of the visit was to hear pitches of the innovations that are being incubated and assess the project implementation progress.
‘IoT and AI Applied Research Results Commercialization through Incubation Hub’ project (...)
Twenty young innovators who expressed interest to be incubated at the African Centre of Excellence have on 19th May 2023 completed a training on entrepreneurship to be able to develop marketable projects.
The training was conducted as part of the IoT and AI Applied Research Results Commercialization through Incubation Hub project, a project funded by Research and Innovation Systems for Africa (RISA), a program of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office that aims to (...)
The African Center of Excellence in Internet of Things (ACEIoT) launched ‘IoT and AI Applied Research Results Commercialization through Incubation Hub’ project on January 24, following a $326,000 grant secured to implement it.
The project aims at establishing an Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based applied research incubator which is expected to facilitate the transfer of applied research prototypes and knowledge from IoT lab to market and commercialization (...)
Eighteen entrepreneurs being incubated at the IoT hub have, on 27th March 2023 started the first training as one of the services they are poised to get under the IoT and AI Applied Research Results Commercialization through Incubation Hub project.
The IoT and AI Applied Research Results Commercialization through Incubation Hub is a project funded by Research and Innovation Systems for Africa (RISA), a program of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office that aims to (...)