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From our radar, we humbly report that Nigerians are great INNOVATORS and need your
support, patronage and referrals!!!

WSA-NIGERIA 2020 Results out!

As President Mohammadu Buhari unveils Nigeria at

60 logo today, Innovationbed Africa is happy to
announce that Lagos, Anambra, Delta and Gombe
States have made ground-breaking records in
International World Summit Awards (Nigeria) 2020
e-contect innovation competition.
AMOS EMMANUEL mNCS, FIIM
Founder, ​PROGRAMOS FOUNDATION
MEMBER GRAND JURY FOR WSA​ and ​WSA NATIONAL EXPERT FOR NIGERIA
CHAIRMAN, ITAN (LAGOS CHAPTER)
Commander-In-Digits, ​@Innovationbed.Africa
Developer-Architect: CloudIntegra capital Market app

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Programos Foundation​ and the entire WSA-NIGERIA​ and ​INNOVATIONBED​ family have a
good cause to celebrate our ​INNOVATIONBED​ producers and the country Nigeria at its
60th anniversary.

The world's number one and best e-content award system ​WSA's ​call for participation ended
yesterday 30th September, 2020 across the globe, and we are grateful to have concluded the
country's National PRE-SELECTION events and hereby announce the result as 5 startups
emerge winners and national nominees in 5 categories to represent Nigeria in the global
competition.
WSA National Expert with His Excellency Engr. Rauf Aregbesola Honorable Minister for the
Ministry of Interior in Colombo, Sri Lanka just before receiving his prestigious ​WSA Awards​ in
Learning and Education while as Executive Governor of Osun State. He remains the Chairman
of the Innovationbed Research Council.

We feel fulfilled when our programmes identify with national growth and envisions that through
them a foundation for smart city and connected communities is being laid in our society as we
promote the most creative homegrown innovations from the 36 states of Nigeria to the world on
a yearly basis.

1. Floews: Flood Early Warning System ​by ​Abubakar Bashir​ from ​Gombe State
emerged winner and WSA Nigeria's National Nominee in ​Environment and Green
Energy​ category.
FLOEWS is dematerializing, demonetizing and democratizing access to social inclusive
flood disaster management & early warning systems to flood vulnerable individuals,
communities & economies, towards a reduction in devastation among lives, properties,
utility & infrastructure, biodiversity, food & water supply, economic losses estimated in
$billions. FLOEWS is a multiple-award winning effort of the startup who have improved
on this solution for environment protection. FLOEWS emerged the national nominee
2020 in the Environment and green Energy category giving its outstanding performance
and presentation during the stages of national pre-selection programme.
2. CovidTogether​ by ​Keston Agboro​ from ​Delta State​ emerged winner and WSA
Nigeria's National Nominee in ​Health and Lifestyle​ category.
CovidTogether app wins: Efficient contact tracing activity in Africa was about one of the
most difficult parts of the life-saving public health demands of the covid-19
pandemonium particularly in Nigeria. The ​CovidTogether ​app became very useful in the
crisis period as it lent its tech to harmonising and complimenting the efforts of the Nigeria
Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. The key feature of CovidTogether that exhibited
good Bluetooth Low Energy performance for Human Proximity and contacts detection
made it an outstanding local solution that matched incidents with protective IDs
respecting privacy and alerts in real terms, geolocating nearest isolation centers for
proper attention. CovidTogether emerged victorious in the health category as the
national Nominee given its local impact as dully appraised at the concluded virtual
national pre-selection conference held by our foundation in Nigeria.

3. Edupoint​ by ​Udebuana Oscar Obiora​ from​ Anambra state​ emerged winner and WSA
Nigeria's National Nominee in ​Learning and Education​ category.
EDUPOINT: The COVID-19 impact further stressed the need for highly trained quality
professionals for our education sector. Covid-19 actually compounded problems in
educational standards as well as threatened the prosperity of teaching capacity in the
sector - as many teachers have had to helplessly look for alternative sources of income.
EduPoint - an educational app that incorporated Artificial Intelligence to improve the
process of matching students with the right option of teachers and optimizing the
learning experience for students and teachers, emerged the winner as National Nominee
in the eLearning & Education category from Nigeria. The solution easily differentiates
itself from other solutions leveraging the power of technology to measure, monitor, and
 improve the learning outcomes for the student. Scale both sides of the marketplace
resulting in lesser charges for the learners and higher commission for tutors within the
system. The Edupoint digital platforms had over 2000 learners on the platform and have
built a sustainable solution bridging challenges of the underserved society education
wise. They exhibited a great team!

4. HelpTalk​ by ​Mayowa Adegoke​ from ​Lagos state​ emerged winner and WSA Nigeria’s
National Nominee in ​Government and Citizens Engagement​ category.
HelpTalk has improved the way and manner citizens access appropriate government
agencies for relaying complaints of social insecurity for justice. HelpTalk was the product
that emerged best in the category during the National Pre-Selection programme for WSA
2020 in Nigeria.

5. PngMe​ (​https://vimeo.com/457965335​) by ​Adeola Olasewere​ from ​Lagos State

emerged winner and WSA Nigeria’s National Nominee in the ​Business and Commerce
category. This year's tech scouting opened a great opportunity that made us discover a
product that won in the Business and Commerce category called PngMe. PngMe
currently resolves that problem of a unified open API, open banking platform. This
serves as a great financial infrastructure that empowers developers and financial
institutions to ride efficiently on the financial data infrastructure sandbox without
re-inventing the will! On boarding of extensive financially unincluded citizens within and
after the covid era is a key value proposition of PngMe. They exhibit a great team.
6.
Sadaqqah​ (Giving, Gifting, Helping) (url: ​Sadaqqah.com​) by ​Odunayo Williams​ of
Lagos state​ emerged winner and WSA Nigeria's National Nominee in the ​Inclusion
and Empowerment​ category. We are happy to announce the Giving, Gifting, Helping
aka Sadaqqah product as the National Nominee under the inclusion and Empowerment
category from Nigeria. The way they have used technology to solve: Identifying who
needs what which can be mind-boggling, Packaging and giving out unused items can be
cumbersome, Identifying charities/care homes in Nigeria and supporting them with items
they really need is difficult. 4. Generally, gifting/giving includes a manual process of
finding someone who wants and values what you have to gift out and then making
arrangements to have the gift delivered to or picked up by the beneficiary. Sadaqqah’s
major strength is simplicity and has simplified the whole process of giving out unused
items.

Our base framework and principle are in sync with Presidential Statements:
Greetings and special Credits to WSA-Nigeria 2020 Pre-Selection Community​:
1. Programos Foundation/Innovationbed (Nigeria) secretariat
2. Dr Daniela Plewe, Founder, OdoGlobal.com, Singapore
3. Luqman Balogun - WSA Winner, 2018
4. Peter Ihesie - WSA Winner, 2013
5. Tom Roberts - WSA Winner, 2017
6. Dr Uzoegbo Ogechukwu - WSA National Nominee, 2018
7. Clara Okoro - Founder, MyBeautifulAfrica, member WSA Nigeria 2020 National
Pre-Selection Committee
8. Mr Jide Awe, Ceo, Jidaw Systems Ltd, member WSA Nigeria 2020 National
Pre-Selection Committee
9. WSA Office (Austria) - Excellent process supports
10. Information Technology Association of Nigeria, ITAN (Lagos Chapter)
11. Dr ​Amina Sambo-​ Magaji, Office of the OIIE, NITDA
12. All participants at the International WSA Nigeria 2020 virtual pre-selection
webinar
13. National Pre-Selection Audience of Students from our tertiary institutions,
innovation hubs across the country, entrepreneurs etc
14. Innovationbed Strategic Partners and Innovation Research Council members
 15. Lagos State Ministry of Science & Technology
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THE-MAKING OF THE NATIONAL PRE-SELECTION VIRTUAL PROGRAMMES in 2020

WE HAVE A PAST
AND
 WE ARE PROUD OF IT

- LET’S CELEBRATE OUR ​INNOVATIONBED ​ECOSYSTEM

2021 PROJECT PARTNERSHIP IS NOW OPEN

NB: BEWARE THAT OUR PROGRAMMES ARE 100% NON-GOVERNMENTAL
AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT

WAYS OF PARTNERING WITH US ARE:

1. PROJECT/RESEARCH SPONSORSHIP
2. INTERNSHIP/STARTUP INCUBATION REALITY AND SCHOLARSHIP
PROGRAMME FOR SMART-CITY AND STRATEGIC PLANNING EDUCATION
CERTIFICATION WITH UNITED NATIONS ICT4SIDS PARTNERSHIP
3. WISHING TO SHOWCASE YOUR ONGOING NEW PRODUCT IN THE 2021
INTERNATIONAL WSA COMPETITION PLATFORM
4. STATE AGENCY FOR INNOVATION WISHING TO DOMESTICATE WORLD
SUMMIT AWARDS PROCESS IN STATE
5. REPRESENT INNOVATIONBED ACTIVITIES IN YOUR STATE
6. DIGITAL MARKETING VOLUNTEERS
7. DIGITAL POLICY MENTORING
8. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY TO BE NOTIFIED OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS

Send expression of interest to ​programos.amos@gmail.com

Nigerian Winners were happy to be hosted along with other countries at the UN
Headquarters, Vienna
Nigeria’s Carrot.ng Producer, Luqman Balogun defending award at the Winners
Congress in Cascais, Portugal. 2019

Madagascar, Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroun, Ghana African Innovators were life in

Cascais, Portugal, 2019
With one of the world’s most profound innovation catalysts!
 Peter Ihesie: WSA Winner @ Abu Dhabi 2014

UN-GAID high-panel pre-comp meeting that evolved ICT4SIDS e-solutions

development for developing countries
Fmr President Olusegun Obasanjo evaluated our CloudIntegra exhibitions in
Abuja Sheraton.

With the National President, ITAN at a Titans of Tech Awards night!

 With UNCTAD Secretary General

Nigeria, Austria, Ghana, Kuwait, China, United Kingdom, Spain, United States
Country experts’ shot at a WSA winners’ congress!
Hon Minister of Interior receiving his WSA award at a Winners’ Congress held in Sri Lanka

With National coordinator, OIIE, NITDA at a NIGF in Lagos.

A close shot of Nigerians, Cameroonian, Kenyan, Moroccan and Sudanese @UN Hdqtrs

Team truckiIT.ng celebrating in Austria

 With my amiable Chairman WSA Professor Peter Bruck

The biggest galaxy of WSA National Experts made history in Vienna

A body of WSA Grand Jury Members and the hosting leaders from Ghanian royal family in
Amankron with Chief Nii Nortey.