Mines ministry announces National Technology Days for October 2024.

The NTD, which will run from October 23 to 25, has been placed under the theme: “Local technological innovations as a lever for import-substitution”

NTD is a platform to showcase technological discoveries and innovations. It is also a platform for exchanges on the development of the sector in the country. It will also be marked by B-to-B meetings, conferences, debates and awards.

In line with this, the ministry of mines has called on researchers and inventors, universities, research institutes and centres, innovative companies and the general public, wishing to take part to get registered to secure their space.

The deadline for the reception of applications, initially scheduled for June 28, has been extended to July 31. 

Meanwhile, structures and individuals wishing to take part in the important event are required to submit their application files in three copies, accompanied by a CD containing the entire file presented in French or English.

In view of a regional selections, application files are submitted to the regional or divisional delegations of the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Technological Development, MINMIDT.

The ministry has called on all and sundry to consult the MINMIDT website via www.minmidt.gov.cm or get in contact the Department of Technological Development and Industrial Property, DDTPI, located at Ngousso, or any MINMIDT regional and divisional delegations. 

It should be recalled that during a ceremony in Yaounde to present some infrared turbidimeter prototypes, the interim mines minister had expressed his committed to promote and enhance local inventions and technological innovations as part of the missions of his ministry.   

The infrared turbidimeter prototypes, developed by researchers of the National School of Agro-Industrial Sciences, ENSAI, under the University of Ngaoundere, helps in boosting quality in the agro-industrial, petroleum, chemical and environment sectors.

During that event, the minister had underscored the need for especially the university community in Cameroon to make their valuable contribution to improving living conditions through inventions and technological innovations. 

“No creation or innovation is insignificant, and every young inventor needs to know that he or she can make a living from his or her invention once he or she has acquired a right that protects it: the right to Intellectual Property,” he had said during the event last April.

He had also urged them to actively participate at the upcoming edition of National Technology Days in October 2024.

This story was first published in The Guardian Post issue N0:3172 of Thursday July 18, 2024