Things You Need to Know About AFRINIC (African Network Information Center)

AFRINIC (African Network Information Center) is a not-for-profit organization that is responsible for the distribution and management of Internet Protocol (IP) address space and Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) for the African region. 

It is one of five regional Internet registries (RIRs) around the world, along with APNIC (Asia Pacific), ARIN (North America), LACNIC (Latin America and the Caribbean), and RIPE NCC (Europe and the Middle East). 

The RIRs are responsible for the allocation and assignment of IP addresses and ASNs to Internet service providers, businesses, and other organizations within their respective regions. 

AFRINIC was established in 2005 and is headquartered in Mauritius.

Summarily:

• AFRINIC serves the African region, which includes 54 countries and territories.

• Its main function is to manage the distribution and administration of IP address space and ASNs within its region. This includes allocating blocks of IP addresses to Internet service providers and other organizations, as well as maintaining a registry of IP address assignments and ASN allocations.

• AFRINIC also provides a range of services to its members, including training and capacity building, technical assistance, and access to online resources such as whois databases and routing information.

• In addition to its core functions, AFRINIC is also involved in various initiatives to promote the growth and development of the Internet in Africa. These include programs to support the deployment of Internet infrastructure, promote the use of IPv6 (the next generation of IP addresses), and support the development of local Internet communities.

• AFRINIC is governed by a board of directors, which is elected by the organization's members. The board is responsible for setting the overall direction and policies of the organization, as well as overseeing its operations and finances.

Apple Event 2019 - Here Are What To Expect

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Apple Company is holding its biggest event of the year, during which it reveal a whole host of its most of its premium products.

Apple is planning to unveil three iPhones, all with upgraded cameras and a variety of latest colours. All the three Apple Iphones are rumoured to be called iPhone 11, and the three devices could be the first handset to adopt the "Pro" name that is used across Apple's line.

Other numerous products are set to be unveiled during the Apple 2019 Event

Teenager invents revolutionary device which has the potential to charge a cell phone within just 20 SECONDS

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A California teen has attracted the attention of tech giants Google for her potentially revolutionary invention which charges a phone in 20 seconds flat.

The super-fast charging device has been dubbed a super capacitor by 18-year-old Esha Khare, of Saratoga - as she took home $50,000 from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which took place in Phoenix this week.

 

The device will make waiting hours for a phone to charge a thing of the past and the gizmo packs more energy into a smaller space than traditional phone batteries and holds the charge for longer.'My cellphone battery always dies,' she told NBC News when asked what inspired her to work on the energy-storage technology.

 

Specializing in nanochemistry allowed Khare to reduve the size of her invention. 'Really working at the nanoscale to make significant advances in many different fields.'

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'It is also flexible, so it can be used in rollup displays and clothing and fabric,' Khare added. 

'It has a lot of different applications and advantages over batteries in that sense.'

The supercapacitor is flexible and tiny, and is able to handle 10,000 recharge cycles, more than normal batteries by a factor of 10.

 

How an 18-year-old girl has managed to figure out something that multi-national corporations have not has led to her being flooded with offers for her amazing leap forward.

Eesha Khare (left), Ionut Budisteanu (center) and Henry Wanjune Lin (right) claimed the top three prizes at this year?s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix - Courtesy Photo

Google have been in contact with Khare to explore how she plans to change the makeup of cell phone battery life. .... Courtesy of Mail Online

 

Five World Greatest Inventions From Africa

Charging shoes
Kenyan inventor Anthony Mutua has developed a rather ingenuous way of charging mobile phone – using the power of pedestrians. His invention comprises of ultra-thin chips of crystal which are fitted to the bottom of a shoe’s sole. As the user walks, it generates electricity through the pressure exerted when it is stepped on. The chips costs around $46, and charges the phone through an extension cable that runs from the shoe to the pocket. Recently the project has been granted $6,000 for further funding by Kenya’s National Council of Science and Technology, as well as the promise of mass production to reach out to a larger market.

 

Please call me

Everyday users of mobile phone technology are sometimes blissfully unaware that the Please Call Me service was invented in Africa. The service allows users who have no airtime to send a Please Call Me text message to any number to alert the receiver that they wish to be called back. While there has been some dispute as to who exactly invented the service, the fact remains that it was either created by an employee of Vodacom or MTN in South Africa. Both former Vodacom employee Nkosana Makate and ex-MTN employee Ari Kahn have laid claims to the invention, each with their own proof, but the matter is still being investigated in a South African court.

Cardiopad
The Cardiopad, a computer tablet that enables heart examinations like electrocardiograms (ECG) to be conducted at remote, rural locations, was created and developed by Cameroonian entrepreneur Marc Arthur Zang Adzaba. The device is most effective in areas where such crucial diagnostic tests have never been made available. While the device is currently only available in Cameroon, Himore Medical (the company who produces the device), is said to be in the process of marketing the unit in other African markets. According to recent media, “this innovation will allow many heart patients to receive a prompt diagnosis that was a luxury that they could not receive, at any price, if they were unable to travel to an urban center.”

M-Pesa
M-Pesa is a mobile-phone based money transfer and microfinancing service which was created for mobile operators Safaricom and Vodacom, in Kenya and Tanzania, respectively.

The ‘M’ stands for mobile, while ‘pesa’ is the Swahili word for money, and is currently the most developed mobile payment system in the world. According to online sources, the service was developed following a student software development project from Kenya in 2007, which was subsequently rolled out by Safaricom. The service is currently in use in Kenya, Tanzania, Afghanistan, South Africa, India and Egypt.

CAT scan
Being widely used in the medical field across the world, few patients know that when they lie down for a computed axial tomography scan, or CAT scan, the technology was actually invented by South African. While it was developed at Tufts University in the UK, the person responsible for the imaging equipment was South African physicist Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories. Recognizing their major efforts in the medical field, the pair was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. According to online sources, “Cormack’s interest in the problem of X-ray imaging of soft tissues was first aroused when he took up the part-time position of physicist for a hospital radiology department. In the 1960s, he provided the mathematical technique for the CAT scan, in which an X-ray source and electronic detectors are rotated around the body, producing a sharp map of the tissues within a cross-section of the body.”