The NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge is a 48-hour event that has become the world’s largest global hackathon, engaging thousands of citizens across the globe to use NASA’s open data to build innovative solutions to challenges we face on Earth and in space. Space Apps inspires local communities to come together, think intensely, and create solutions to important problems. Space Apps has evolved to become an international hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, technologists, and others in cities around the world. Space Apps 2019, being the 8th edition, included over 29,000 participants at more than 230 events in 80 countries. Space Apps is a NASA-
On the 13th & 14th of November 2018, 45 young people met at the KSIH to have conversations and learn about Renewable Energy, particularly PV solar generation in Nigeria and Paradigm shift in energy reliance. Facilitated by Mr. Divine Okon, a member of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Innovation Hub, the workshop was aimed at creating awareness about the need to diversify the sources of energy, seeing that the current source (fossil fuels) is fast being depleted, not to mention the fact that it is harmful to the environment and human health. The first day of the workshop was focused on the rudiments and benefits of solar power generation in Nigeria. The facilitator carefully explained how solar power can be
The Ken Saro-Wiwa Innovation Hub is committed to learning the dynamics of technology and using it to solve pressing problems in the Niger Delta… a pertinent focus of ours is emerging & future technologies, and Internet of Things (IoT) is one of them. Simply put, IoT is the concept of basically connecting any device with an on and off switch to the Internet (and/or to each other). This includes everything from cellphones, coffee makers, washing machines, headphones, lamps, wearable devices and almost anything else you can think of. On the 15th & 16th of November 2018, 10 Females & 48 Males gathered at the Hub to use IoT to create a dummy traffic light, in a bid to understand & crack the probl
