Summer School on Digital Health and IoT

An innovative event dedicated to exploring emerging technologies in healthcare and logistics.

Collaboration goals

The collaboration between Cameroon and its partners in Grenoble, Toulouse, and Rennes aims to establish a long-term partnership focused on IoT, health, distributed systems, artificial intelligence and Security.

The primary goals of this initiative, highlighted at the Ambam conference, include strengthening research capacity through joint IoT and healthcare projects. It also seeks to promote knowledge transfer by supervising students (master's and PhD), organizing workshops, and sharing resources.

In addition, the collaboration is committed to developing healthcare solutions tailored to local contexts, addressing challenges in medical diagnostics and patient monitoring. Another important aspect is the enhancement of technical infrastructure, ensuring access to computing tools for researchers in the Global South.

Summary

The conference was hosted at ESTLC in Ambam and Yaoundé and brought together students, researchers and professionals—from both Cameroon and France.

Over the course of these days, the event featured a series of engaging talks covering cutting-edge research findings and innovative applications across various domains, including AI in agriculture, healthcare, governance, and energy. Data privacy and protection were also key discussion topics.

A highlight of the conference was a hackathon organized around three topics:
(1) Blockchain and OCR for Automated Vote Counting;
(2) Educational Video Games for Electoral Code and Constitutional Literacy;
(3) Blockchain and OCR for Digitizing Health Records

Eleven teams participated, with an average of three teams per topic. Winners were announced for each topic:
Topic 1: Nathanael FETUE and Ivan EBODE;
Topic 2: Saha LADO and Laura NZEMKAM FEUMBIA;
Topic 3: Fideline KUETCHE and Derick KAPTCHOUANG.