Ibadan-born pharmacist Adebayo Alonge, has won the 2019 deepTech Challenge at the Hello Tomorrow conference, which comes with a €100,000 (about N40.6 million) prize in Paris.
Alonge through a health tech startup RxAll, co-developed a miniature nanoscanner that uses AI to identify fake drugs and assess general drug quality on mobile phones.
The Pharmacy School, University of Ibadan graduate, emerged winner at the world’s best deepTech conference for scientists, technologists and their enablers, Hello Tomorrow, in Paris for his Anti-Fake Drugs Startup, beating 4,500 from 119 countries.
Hello Tomorrow conference seeks to discover, initiate and support the deepTech ecosystem. The purpose of which is to scale science based solutions to solve the world’s biggest problems.
It organises an annual challenge that seeks to identify the best deepTech solution in the world, over a six-month period. The conference seeks to discover, initiate and support the deepTech ecosystem, the purpose of which is to scale science-based solutions to solve the world’s biggest problems.
InsideOyo.com gathered that Alonge is planning to work with Seyi Makinde-led government to set up a digital city and distributed digital skills workcentres in public schools across Ibadan.
“Our plan will generate outsourcing income upwards of $100 million for young people in the city.
“Other African diaspora should come together and work with their local governments to enable this across our cities. Our children should leave schools to after-school digital work centres to learn statistics, machine learning, programming and IoT hardware development. They should not be leaving school to hawk on the streets or to help out in mechanic workshops. That age is past. We must prepare them for the future.”
