Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate student Chidube Ezeozue is one of those who grew up frustrated by his nation’s erratic electrical grid. Chidube graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Together with his brother, Chidube is working on an app that sources information about the power outage situation. According to the MIT journal ” with the app, called NepaSituation, people living in Nigeria can report outages. This data, when merged into an algorithm developed by Ezeozue, can help Nigerians predict when power outages may strike their neighborhoods, and how long those outages might last.“
“With over 100 million cell phones in Nigeria, we knew it was an important resource we could tap into,” Ezeozue says. “It took a while to come up with this algorithm, because the outages are pretty randomized, and the app is only as good as the number of people who enter outage data.”
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