A Nigerian Breaks Grounds on Global Mobile Technology.

Intellectual icon, and academic, Dr Chris Imafidon gets invitations from the British Parliament, by Sir Richard Branson,
and even the British Queen for ground breaking research and le...adership.

A world class academic (of African extraction), who is described by the BBC, and CNN as an intellectual icon has been recognised by some of the most significant and highest-profile personalities in the Europe for his pioneering work on leveraging technology, wireless computing and security. (see BBC video interview at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXsu-pmWesk)

Dr Chris Imafidon, who is a consultant to monarchs, presidents, and heads of governments, and industry, was invited to a conference with world leading business experts such as Lord Sugar and Sir Richard Branson at the O2 in London recently, where he was given the opportunity to show how indispensable technology has become in the globalisation of business.
Dr Imafidon demonstrated how local businesses can use search engines such as Bing, Google, and Yahoo to dominate foreign markets.
He revealed an innovative strategy for social media platforms to boost
business performance and staff productivity. He redefined, and re-purposed mobile devices such a Blackberry, I-phone, I-pad, and androids wireless micro-computers.

IN PARLIAMENT
He was similarly invited to the British Parliament (House of Commons)
to join thought leaders in a discussion on energy poverty in
developing economies. He cited Bangalore in India as a good example of a city where over seventy percent of workers are ‘tele-workers’, or
employed by technology giants in the USA. He also explained that new studies by digital economists suggest that ICT is the single most
important tool in sustaining growth for a country. (http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-756952)

Multi-award winning Dr Imafidon stated that "if technology is treated
as a tool (rather than as an entertainment toy), mobile computing
devices can boost productivity, generate employment for rural citizens through remote working; and lead to economic empowerment, and reduction in unemployment and poverty". He added that education and knowledge transfer can be scaled up using innovative technologies. ( http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-756952)

WITH THE MONARCHY
He was also invited to Westminster Abbey to join senior royals and
world leaders to celebrate the Commonwealth Day in London.
The theme for the service, attended by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, senior royals and representatives from the Commonwealth countries was 'Connecting Cultures'. (see CNN report http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-761603)

At the event, attended by other heads of governments, or former
leaders, Her Majesty watched a video tape of her own speech which was heard and seen by all commonwealth countries at the same time. This connection of various peoples, at the different location, and time
zones was made possible by recent advances in technology. This
confirms findings of e-Government research led by Dr Imafidon where he showed that technology facilitates capacity building in parliamentary and executive education. (See www.imafidons.com)

According to Dr Imafidon who was invited for his work with educational charities such as Excellence in Education where he serves as a board member, “the role of technology in connecting different remote cultures cannot be overemphasized. Her Majesty visibly demonstrated the role of technology by video-casting her message to 54 different nations at the same time” (see http://excellenceineducation.org.uk/ )

Other dignitaries at the celebration included: Former British Prime Minister John Major, representatives of 54 different heads of governments, UK’s International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell and the UK’s first ever lady solicitor-general Baroness Patricia Scotland QC. Dr Chris current lectures, mentors or supervises research at Universities in London, and Oxford.

This guy is just hype and self-aggrandizement.

He's just an ordinary lecturer in some obscure university in the UK.

But his children are real standouts.

His eldest daughter is the youngest ever master's degree holder from Oxford and before that she broke some other records:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Marie_Imafidon

http://yegs.org/yegs-hall-of-fame-anne-marie-imafidon-1990/

http://www.prlog.org/10755715-how-london-girl-became-the-youngest-mathematics-and-computer-science-graduate-from-oxford.html

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1434617

Here's something interesting on her:

"In her spare time, at the weekend, she actively supports and volunteers in inner-city initiatives and projects, one of which is the Excellence in Education Programme, a non-for-profit alliance of charities, churches, schools and corporations who support the academic pursuits of disadvantaged students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Due to her immaculate academic record, and her outstanding achievements she has had numerous offers from blue-chip companies
resulting in a bidding war between leading financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs.

A-Marie has reached the final in the Business Analyst of the Year Category of the prestigious British Computer Society (BCS) & Computing UK's annual IT Industry Awards which was won last year by the famous internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee.

A-Marie has been recognised before and received the BBC academic award in 2006, and Microsoft Award for ICT. However, tonight's award is for her revolutionary work in realm of Ophthalmological informatics. She is the first BCS finalist to combine ICT with Ophthalmology in a unique way creating a new and innovative software to artificially clean lenses that has been piloted in Dollond and Aitchison stores Nationwide.

This research was one of her Masters Projects in the Requirements Engineering element of her Maths and Computer Science degree at Oxford University. This has earnt her a place in the final ten in the Business Analyst of the Year category.

A-Marie is "very delighted" to have been chosen as a finalist, and commented "I received some of the highest marks from my degree for this project, but I never thought it would get this level of recognition. It was a big surprise! I'm really grateful to Marina Jirotka who led the course for all her help and guidance."

The UK IT Industry Awards are a benchmark for excellence throughout the computer industry. The Awards focus on the contribution of
individuals, projects, organisations and technologies that have excelled in the use, development and deployment of IT in the past 12 months."


http://avisami.com/content/avisami-director-prestigious-it-award

His other daughter and son broke some record as well.

couldn't find anything extraordinary about the man but must echo same thing with the above poster on the daughter.