Tim Arueyingho had this to say about their experience:
‘The conference ran for five days and there were different stakeholders. Doctoral students, professors, and person’s working in the industry. The topics covered by the different panels include – the future of digital health, health data and services, analytics and visualization, health policy, systems and interoperability, IOT Data analytics and health data analytics. I was able to make a few new connections.
I was invited to the conference because I made an academic contribution in the form of a short paper and was required to make a presentation. I was the corresponding/major author and I invited master’s student, Korede Sanyaolu to collaborate with me. The conference paper would be published soon.
I am a digital health enthusiast and currently my PhD project is interested in exploring diverse ways in which technology is being used in collaborative healthcare management of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in informal settings in Nigeria. Life style modifications are prerequisites for the long term management of chronic diseases and I am also a fitness enthusiast. Thus, I thought it would be interesting to write a review exploring the use of technology by fitness enthusiasts in Africa. Although there is no direct relationship, the review provides a corpus of literature that would be essential in establishing the current use of tech for the purpose of exercise in Nigeria. Exercise would be an interesting part of my PhD project as it is paramount in life style modifications.’