Full coverage: Mozambique

10.01.2006 Community radio stations have made a difference in the lives of rural Mozambicans by expanding access to information and communicating health and life skills messages. But, given their relience on donor funding, some analysts question whether they are a sustainable development tool.

10.08.2005 A CD-ROM on malaria prevention has won the first prize for production of digital content awarded by a national jury under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Technology in Mozambique.

29.07.2005 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Italian government on Thursday signed an agreement in Maputo, that establishes mechanisms of multilateral financing for a project to develop Mozambican human resources in the sphere of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

26.10.2004 Providing information on websites is not enough for improving delivery of government services to the poor, points out a recent study on the usefulness of ICTs in improving governance. Citing the case of Mozambique, the report recommends integration of standardised information management practices in the government websites.

12.05.2004 To further the development of ICT projects, 42 community radios and multimedia centres in Mozambique have formed a coalition to work closely with international organisations.

17.03.2004 UNESCO is setting up HIV/AIDS information centres for youth in Mozambique, Tanzania and Bulgaria. This is part of a project to implement preventive HIV/AIDS activities by improving access to information and raising awareness among youth about the potential risks and the ways for a more efficient prevention.

17.12.2003 Presidents of Senegal, Mali and Mozambique have commended UNESCO's Community Media Centres (CMC) project which has been piloted in their countries. The heads of state made their comments at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva during an event organised by UNESCO to launch the scaling up of CMC's in the three countries.

25.11.2003 Mozambique's forest wardens and wildlife scouts have a new tool to fight illegal loggers and poachers: wireless radio telephones. The phones are also helping to break their isolation. Research supported by Canada's International Development Research Centre is also showing that the radios help to enlist villagers to the cause of sound resource management.

08.07.2003 The African Union Summit in Maputo, Mozambique will link to the rest of the world through a videoconference in an open public forum with African heads of state - the Global Forum on Health and Development. The debate, focusing on major health challenges facing the African continent, will be broadcast live worldwide on 10 July 2003 through the Internet, satellite radio and television.

04.09.2002 Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said in Maputo on Wednesday that the use of computer technologies is essential for the development of human resources, without which nothing can be done to develop the country and alleviate poverty.

28.08.2002 A new 13-part radio drama series, played by Mozambican actors, wants to promote school attendance. Listening attentively at a literacy centre in a poor suburb of Maputo, the capital, is a group of over 100 children, most of them girls.

28.08.2002 A project working on land re-occupation and demarcation by displaced rural communities in Mozambique is using film as a tool to increase their participation. Films are used to follow the whole process, which helps people who cannot read and write to monitor the process and be engaged in it.

27.08.2002 A 13-part radio drama series, played by Mozambican actors, wants to promote school attendance. Listening attentively at a literacy centre in a poor suburb of Maputo, the capital, is a group of over 100 children, most of them girls.

12.08.2002 As one of Africa's poorest countries, Mozambique's efforts to close the digital divide face the question, "What comes first, the chicken or the egg?" Without content to drive usage, the Internet remains largely the tool of the wealthier urban elite. But without content that is useful to the poor majority, the user base is likely to grow very slowly.

12.08.2002 As one of Africa's poorest countries, Mozambique's efforts to close the digital divide face the question, "What comes first, the chicken or the egg?" Without content to drive usage, the Internet remains largely the tool of the wealthier urban elite. But without content that is useful to the poor majority, the user base is likely to grow very slowly.

06.08.2002 Mozambique's first two pilot telecentres will become full-fledged multimedia centres with the addition of community radio that will enable them to extend their activities. Community multimedia centres, integrating traditional forms of access with new technologies, offer an innovative approach to the challenges of providing access and creating local content.

07.04.2002 Italy will lead the G-7 e-government initiative to create aid for developing countries. Its minister for technology and innovation Lucio Stanca is pressing to transform a paper-heavy bureaucracy into a streamlined system of online databases to bring transparency to the public sector.