Full coverage: Sierra Leone

13.01.2006 Talk about a “win-win” situation: a small telecom company seizes on an opportunity to step into a perfect business void, developing a broadband network where none exists, and where customer demand is on the rise. Meanwhile, a nation with just one landline for every 250 people gets expanded access to inexpensive, reliable communication.

29.09.2003 Interactive online and offline discussions and phone-in programmes were held recently in Sierra Leone to increase the level of awareness about the World Summit on the Information Society. Organised by the youth groups of the TakingITGlobal Sierra Leone Network, they received an overwhelming response and brought ICT and young people in the mainstream of the nation’s public discussion and opinion.

26.08.2003 A number of development organisations are finding smart ways to use technology to solve the world's most pressing socio-economic problems. The key for many of these initiatives is to focus on technologies appropriate for the capabilities of NGOs working in capital-poor but labour-rich developing countries.

28.05.2003 A two-day seminar, held recently in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, discussed the need to develop a comprehensive radio policy for the country. It also discussed the merits of radio as a cheap form of communication in a conflict-torn Sierra Leone, ways of increasing the financial viability of the radio sector and the means of enhancing radio pluralism.

29.04.2003 Childsoldiers.org, a project of our partner iEARN-Sierra Leone, has won a Cable and Wireless Childnet Award, which recognises the best Websites for children from all over the world. iEARN-Sierra Leone is using the Internet to transform the lives of war-affected children and youth in that country.

09.10.2002 The West Africa Democracy Radio has been refused permission to establish a radio station in Sierra Leone on the ground of "national security and public safety". WADR had been promised approval by the Sierra Leonean government until Liberia expressed its "furious" disapproval to the proposal.

04.07.2002 Amputees at the Aberdeen camp in Sierra Leone openly celebrated when for the very first time, they were given a mobile phone and a computer hooked on to the Internet. A Website is also being developed to put Sierra Leone war victims online.

26.03.2002 A Sierra Leonean entrepreneur plans to set up a vocational training center to teach computer skills to former child soldiers in Sierra Leone.