2018-2021 H2020 ICT-39 AFRICA WAZIHUB (Open-Hub in Swahili) was an innovation project for Africa aiming to create an open hub of IoT and Big data cutting-edge and African grade solutions, co-designed by African people. The vision of WAZIHUB was to exploit IoT potential and share IoT technologies best-practices through the involvement of innovation communities and stakeholder (e.g. young entrepreneur (including woman), startup, developer, innovation hub) from local district, regional, national and African-wide.
Leveraging on the technological developments conducted in H2020 WAZIUP project, H2020 WAZIHUB aimed at enabling the creation of Open Hubs throughout Africa where IoT technology solutions can then be adapted to match local service needs. The project goal was then to iterate and extract value from spining-off value-added IoT innovative services (e.g. monitoring, controlling, data analytic) based on the technologies developed in H2020 WAZIUP.
It is in the context of WAZIHUB that IoT technologies developed in the WAZIUP project were integrated into a first version of an online tutorial platform where an IoT course curriculum was proposed to facilitate the organization of capacity-building sessions.
For those interested, you can look at these additional selected resources:
- Low Cost Open IoT in Africa and Capacity Building with WAZIUP/WAZIHUB. ITU SmartABC Pavilion, ITU Telecom World, September 11th, 2019, HUNGEXPO, Budapest, Hungary.
- Innovating in Africa with Internet-of-Things Technologies: Towards a Smarter World. Talk at AAIS webminar event series, December 16th, 2020.
- More talks and tutorials are available on my web page. Look for those with the
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