Commentary on a Premium Times report about INEC's intention to transmit election results electronically.
Read MoreReview of an interesting The Atlantic article about the origins of computing.
Read MoreHere's an excellent resource for designing a house in the tropics.
Read MoreYoung African entrepreneurs must take advantage of technology to leapfrog over their more privileged peers in other parts of the world. This post focuses on some essential tools for achieving business success in today's Africa.
Read MoreThe Global Village Construction Set is a collection of 50 open sourced machine designs required to build a small, sustainable farm settlement.
Read MoreGoogle Classroom is now open to more learners. This is a great resource for expanding learning opportunities beyond the traditional classroom environment.
Read MoreThis article from the Salesforce Metamind blog is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn more about current directions in artificial intelligence, deep learning and natural language processing
Read MoreThe Federal Road Safety Corps of Nigeria (FRSC) turns a blind eye to death-trap trailers and other road hazards while harassing law-abiding private vehicle owners. It is time for FRSC to take a common-sense approach to preventing accidents, protecting life and preventing needless death on Nigerian highways. Here are 3 simple tactics to help them achieve this.
Read MoreThis article presents my thoughts on the education sector in Nigeria particularly with respect to the goal of achieving the Education for All (EFA) objectives. While it is not an exhaustive treatise, I do try to lay out a framework for discussion.
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OpenBTS (Open Base Transceiver Station) is an open source software project whose goal is to make it easy to setup and operate your own mobile phone network based on Internet Protocol (IP) technology
Read MoreThe governorship candidate of Action Congress in the 2007 Governorship elections, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, needed a campaign strategy to engage more directly with voters in the run up to the 2009 Ekiti State Rerun elections.
Read MoreElections in Nigeria are chaotic and fraught with numerous problems like late arrival of election materials, ballot box snatching, rigging and violence. We developed the Pollwatch project to support the election monitoring role of the Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform (CODER).
Read MoreBy the 2011 presidential elections in Nigeria, town hall meetings had been a popular feature of the American political system for many years. They were used by candidates and elected officials to interact with voters in intimate settings.
Read MoreThe furore generated by the controversial Ekiti State Rerun Election of 2009 was followed by a period of uneasy silence. It seemed that all sides in the conflict were exhausted and just waiting for something to happen.
Read MoreFor the 2007 elections, I partnered with a group of Filipino developers, to build an sms-based election monitoring system (which we called QuickCount 2007). This automated system was able to receive and process sms reports including ballot count results from 18,000 Action Congress polling agents at 9,000 polling units all over the state.
Read MoreBetween 2004-2005, Lagos State Government of Nigeria implemented an upgrade and automation project at the Lagos State Land Registry. Through this initiative we were able to scan and archive 20 million pages of land documents including certificates of occupancy, survey maps and other land title documents.
Read MoreThe property taxation system in Lagos was a manual and inefficient system with fragmented charges and multiple taxation. The Land Use Charge law was introduced in year 2000 to combine the 3 existing charges into just one charge called the Land Use Charge (LUC).
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XYZ CARGO system is an open source project that builds functional passenger and cargo cycles using local production techniques and easily sourced materials in a "socially just and environmentally sustainable way".
Read MoreLibrary For All is a project that deserves support.
Read MoreThis cantilevered beach house by the Australian firm Refresh Design is an excellent example of context-appropriate architecture.
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