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Mr Alinafe Kaliwo

Founder & Senior Software Engineer, Mechro Africa

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Alinafe is a rewarded technology innovator and entrepreneur with notable accolades whose example is… (more)

Alinafe is a rewarded technology innovator and entrepreneur with notable accolades whose example is the Global Innovation in Science and Technology Tech-I (GIST Tech-I) competition in 2019, which the United States Department of State implemented through its American Association for the Advancement of Science where he emerged as a global finalist. Among other awards, his innovation for temperature monitoring of cold-chain items, dubbed TempCras, was rewarded in 2017 at the Innovators Design Competition as the Best Overall Project, at Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Program 2018 in Nigeria as the business most likely to succeed and at the Southern Africa Start-up Awards (SASAwards) of the Global Innovation awards of 2018.

Alinafe has devoted most of his time to researching novel technologies that can help send and share vital medical and business data between people and devices. Some of the recent advanced technologies that he has practically worked on are in areas of the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine to Machine (M2M) communications and the Fifth Generation (5G) networks. Alinafe is a holder of a Master of Philosophy degree in Telecommunications Engineering. Alinafe is a young, talented and hard-working man; very keen on issues of science and technology. Alinafe is a highly motivated young man with the potential to bring mind-blowing science and technological innovations. He has a good track record of designing and testing tech innovations.