ICT developments in Sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to cut across traditional sectors: notable examples are the introduction of micro-health insurance and health-savings accounts through mobile devices; index-based crop insurance; crowd-sourcing to monitor and manage the delivery of public services. These innovative applications recognize and leverage commonalities between sectors, blur traditional lines, and open up a new field of opportunities. The opportunity for ICT intervention in Africa is huge especially of IoT and big data: those technologies are promising a big wave of innovation for our daily life. The era of IoT can connect billions of sensors, devices, equipment, systems. In turn, the challenge is about driving business outcomes, consumer benefits, and the creation of new value. The new mantras for the IoT era is the collection, convergence and exploitation of data. The information collection involves data from sensors, devices, gateways, edge equipment and networks. This information allows increasing process efficiency through automation while reducing downtime and improving people productivity. The WAZIUP project will show: Potential of IoT and Big data in Africa:
WAZIUP: Open Innovation Platform for IoT-Big Data in Sub-Sahara Africa
Rahim, MD Abdur;Dupont, Corentin;
2017-01-01
Abstract
ICT developments in Sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to cut across traditional sectors: notable examples are the introduction of micro-health insurance and health-savings accounts through mobile devices; index-based crop insurance; crowd-sourcing to monitor and manage the delivery of public services. These innovative applications recognize and leverage commonalities between sectors, blur traditional lines, and open up a new field of opportunities. The opportunity for ICT intervention in Africa is huge especially of IoT and big data: those technologies are promising a big wave of innovation for our daily life. The era of IoT can connect billions of sensors, devices, equipment, systems. In turn, the challenge is about driving business outcomes, consumer benefits, and the creation of new value. The new mantras for the IoT era is the collection, convergence and exploitation of data. The information collection involves data from sensors, devices, gateways, edge equipment and networks. This information allows increasing process efficiency through automation while reducing downtime and improving people productivity. The WAZIUP project will show: Potential of IoT and Big data in Africa:I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
