NSTopinion: All 34 innovators flew into Dakar a week before the summit, and were given a week-long workshop on how to pitch, market and patent their ideas, as well as discuss potential collaboration.
The four - Dr Azman Senin of Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Dr Muhamad Shirwan Abdullah Sani and Dr Nabilah Ramli and Dr Mohamad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi - were among the international participants chosen by the Islamic Development Bank for their innovative research.
The innovators were asked to prepare a two-minute pitch, to explain their ideas to guests who visited their booths. Ideas ranged from a thermal jacket for premature babies to an artificial intelligence-driven electrosurgical generator, and from a handheld device for cholera detection to the introduction of biodegradable shopping bags.
The participants this year were drawn from 20 different countries, making Malaysia’s participation at the summit the largest delegation to be represented. The summit was a gathering of the best minds from IsDB member countries. A total of 5,055 innovations were considered by the Transform Fund of the IsDB, and 1,417 applications were shortlisted before the finalists were decided upon.
This year’s summit ran on the theme of Goal 11 of the SDGs - Sustainable Cities and Communities. This was an apt choice for IsDB, given that 21 of its 57 member countries are in the least-developed country status, and that Africa is the one continent in danger of not achieving most of the development goals.
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