Full coverage: Africa

27.10.2005 At least 600 000 schools in Africa will be connected to one another via a satellite network in a bid to help schools produce maths and science whiz kids.

26.10.2005 A Farmers Internet Café, established by the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU), through support from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the USA’s department of Agriculture, has helped linking the mother body with affiliates at district level, while at the same time providing access to information to individual union members. Through this café not only were the farmers able to access business opportunities, they were also able to know general marketing trends in the agricultural sector, to write letters to their relatives as well as enquire about any other services that the union or any other organisation of interest to them was offering.

26.10.2005 Fresh doubts have arisen over the progress of an empowerment charter for the ICT industry, since the empowerment charter steering committee, South Africa appears to have no leader.

25.10.2005 The expansion of Information Communication Technology (ICT) would be strengthened in Amhara State during the current year, the State Capacity Building Bureau Ethopia said.

21.10.2005 Conservation through Public Health (CTPH) in Bwindi, Uganda has built a telecentre in a bid to empower communities around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to improve health and livelihoods.

21.10.2005 Next year, when the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) carries out a landmark project to connect interior Africa with a lightning fast wireless internet connection, a team from the Pune-based International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT) will be in the centre of action.

20.10.2005 In an event to mark the 60th anniversary of the CSIR, a group of science and technology (S&T) leaders from around the world gathered in Pretoria to find new ways for S&T to play a part in sustainable development.

20.10.2005 Mafutsane Secondary School at Rakoma Village, near Tzaneen, South Africa has received a fully furnished computer lab funded by the Universal Service Agency (USA) in partnership with government communications, the GCIS, and through the lobbying of Bathlabine Rural Development Trust earlier this year.

18.10.2005 The fourth annual mobile learning conference, mLearn 2005, will take place from 25 to 28 October at the BOE Conference Centre in Cape Town.

17.10.2005 Umsobomvu, a government skills development fund in South Africa, is extending its outreach programme to rural youth by providing computer training and information about self-employment opportunities via its mobile youth advisory centres.

17.10.2005 Investors and tourists can now gain information on Kenya using new technology.

14.10.2005 A new computerised global distribution system that enables service providers like airlines, hotels and car rental companies disseminate information about their services will be launched in kampala, Uganda.

14.10.2005 The Innovation Hub and Active Touch are hosting an all day e-learning conference at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria, Johannesburg on 27 October 2005.

13.10.2005 Throughout the ages, people and their governments have struggled to find an easy, cheap, and effective way to govern the country. eGovernment, however, is changing the nature of government interaction with citizens. ICTs have the potential to drastically change this interaction by making systems more integrated, transparent, and efficient.

13.10.2005 In developing country contexts, handheld computer applications are starting to show their benefits across development sectors. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and other types of handheld computers offer considerable advantages over desktops or even laptops. Health and microfinance have been particularly keen to test handheld applications.

13.10.2005 Adoption of electronic voting in future elections in South Africa may have been settled as President Olusegun Obasanjo believes that digitalising the ballot system would help minimise short comings associated with past elections.

13.10.2005 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure of Osun State government in Nigeria will be commissioned soon.

11.10.2005 Regulators from 15 West African nations agreed to a common regulatory framework for their national ICT markets during a three-day validation workshop held last month in Geneva.

10.10.2005 The telecommunications industry in Ghana has been described as one of the fastest growing on the African continent, as significant milestones have been achieved recently.

07.10.2005 AfriHUB, a project embarked upon to provide digital access to Nigerian tertiary institutions maintains that the centres built in Nigerian universities would be used to develop the Universal Mandatory IT Training (UMITT).