Full coverage: Africa

31.05.2005 Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa proposes a strategy for the development of ICT in Sub-Saharan Africa.

30.05.2005 The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global initiative to select and promote the world’s best in e-Content and Creativity, held in the framework of and in cooperation with the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

27.05.2005 For young people living in poverty in coastal Kenya, surfing the internet and learning how to use computers make most sense when these skills mean better economic opportunities and work-readiness.

27.05.2005 "The private sector is playing a major role in the financing of ICT infrastructure and development of banking and financial services," said Prof. Wiseman Nkuhlu, Chief Executive of the NEPAD Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria at an African Development Bank seminar recently.

27.05.2005 If copyright laws are the heavy-duty locks shackling Africa's art and information instead of letting them bask in the attention of a global audience well, Heather Ford has the key to freeing the continent's creativity.

27.05.2005 In a 17-minute podcast, Si Brindley, a Britisher, can learn the numbers 1-10 and the days of the week in Shona, the main language of Zimbabwe.

26.05.2005 A desire to promote equal access to information and communication technology (ICT) has led to a variety of projects bringing computers to the disadvantaged in Africa.

25.05.2005 After two paper versions of the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing (1996 and 2001), the information collected on a large number of endangered languages in all parts of the world will now be available online, starting with the map of the African continent.

25.05.2005 The Rwandan government has mainstreamed ICT in the Vision 2020 through ICT-led Socio-Economic Development Policy and Plan for Rwanda.

25.05.2005 Alice Wanjira Munyua discusses how multi-stakeholder partnership (MSP) processes practised through KICTANet have helped gearing up of the ICT policy process as well as lobbying for legitimisation of genuine stakeholder participation in policy process.

19.05.2005 Subscribe to Kabissa Gong Gong, a monthly newsletter containing the latest news about ICT in Africa and how African civil society organizations are using ICT.

17.05.2005 Mauritius Prime Minister Paul Raymond Bernger today inaugurates the Government Online Centre and the new Government Portal of the country.

17.05.2005 The New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) has withdrawn support for the forthcoming Information and Communication Technology conference to be held in Nairobi.

17.05.2005 This report updates UNCTAD's ICT Development Indices to benchmark ICT development and review trends in the digital divide worldwide.

13.05.2005 The relations Ethiopia has forged with India in the area of information and communication technology (ICT) is helpful to the ongoing capacity building activities, held Tefera Waluwa, Minister of Capacity Buildingof Ethiopia.

13.05.2005 The International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) has recently launched the Arabic version of the "IFEX Communique" newsletter.

13.05.2005 Broadening and strengthen the Asia-Africa Business Exchange Network and facilitating Africa using information and communication technology (ICT) will be Japan’s thrust areas of development assistance to Africa, said Japan’s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura.

13.05.2005 The Open Media Fund for the Middle East and North Africa opens its second round of funding to support diverse media in the region.

11.05.2005 Vodafone (in conjunction with an advisory panel of academics, government officials, and NGO representatives) developed a research program to seek emprirical evidences of the social and economic impacts of mobile telecommunications.

11.05.2005 The Zimbabwean SW Radio Africa has been awarded the International Press Institute (IPI) 2005 Free Media Pioneer Award.