MOHAMED SANAD

Mohamed Sanad is a professor at t he Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He was an adjunct professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA, and the Director of Antenna Engineering for some of the largest telecommunication companies in the USA and the world, such as Nokia and others. He invented the first small internal integrated micro strip antennas for cellular phones, which significantly reduced the interaction between the human-body and the radiation from cellular phones. Dr. Sanad was born in Egypt in 1954. He got his B.Sc. degree from Cairo University, Egypt in 1977 and his PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada, in 1986.

Project title: A low cost, foldable/deployable, multi-band base station antenna
Thematic area: ICTs
Country: Egypt

Project description
A low-cost, lightweight, low wind-load, foldable/deployable, multi-broadband base station antenna has been developed using dual parabolic cylindrical reflectors with novel small size broadband resonant feeds invented by the applicant. The new base station antenna has the following 8 important advantages over the existing ones in wireless applications: (1) One base station can cover all wireless applications at different frequency bands including WiMax, digital TV, CDMA, GSM, etc. (2) The station is foldable/deployable and can thus be shipped and stored in a very compact form (3) It is very easy to assemble and disassemble (4) It has a low wind load (5) It is light (6) It can stand on the ground without mounting towers (7) It is low-cost and (8) It can generate beams of arbitrary angles in the horizontal and vertical planes.

"I would like to thank everybody in the IPA team, ECA and AIF for their great efforts and ideas. Everybody was sincere and everything was perfect. Sure, the Award will motivate me for more hard work and commitment in scaling up my project and promoting innovation in Africa." Mohamed Sanad

ZEINOU ABDELYAMINE

Zeinou Abdelyamine graduated in industrial chemistry, lived in United Arab Emirates for 13 years (1994-2007), and returned to his native Algeria to start his own company, Bit Bait. He has two patents on manufacturing of insecticides at INAPI in Algeria and a PCT in the same field. He is actively involved in research and development of environmentally friendly insecticides and rodenticides.

Project title: La Fabrication des Produits Insecticides et Rodenticides non Chimique, 100% Naturel, Ecologiques, non Toxique et Bio
Country: Algeria
Thematic area: Health and Food Security

Project description
Bit Bait (petit appât) est une invention dont le prix et la qualité rivalisent avec les produits mondiaux. Les appâts Bit Bait (insecticides et rodenticides) sont non chimiques et 100% naturels. L'extermination est physique et non pas chimique, non toxique, préservant la santé humaine, les animaux de compagnie et l'environnement. Cette solution a été brevetée en Algérie, enregistrée et publiée par I'OMPI. La fabrication des appâts est produite dans un processus de fabrication sUr, puisqu'il ne laisse aucuns résidus ni déchets solides, liquides ou gaz. Bit Bait peut être considérée comrne une percée mondiale et un pas géant dans la lutte contre les insectes et les rongeurs.

"We are giving new technology and we prove that Africa can give new technology and can solve her problems by herself" Zeinou Abdelyamine