Full coverage: Africa

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).

28.07.2005 Mpumalanga communities in and around the farming town of Standerton, Africa will for the first time have access to cyber facilities at their doorstep.

26.07.2005 President John Agyekum Kufuor on Monday urged African nations to agree on common Information Communication Technology (ICT) implementation strategies in Education, which must reflect on various core issues like education, development of sub-regional policy guidelines for effective partnership mechanism for cost-sharing, human resource development and optimisation of existing capacity in all areas of ICT use in education, an environment to reduce connectivity costs and supply of adequate band-with.

26.07.2005 African government to introduce reforms and initiatives in the information and communication (ICT) sector. As a part of this strategy Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service sector will get a new policy framework in two weeks time in Africa.

25.07.2005 HP Invent and NEPAD e-Africa Commission have launched the first NEPAD e-school at Bugulumbya Secondary School in Kamuli district.

25.07.2005 Connectivity through mobile phones in Africa is growing at a very fast pace. 97% of all Tanzanians have access to mobile phones and this has led to the creation of a new sector within the economy.

22.07.2005 MTN Communications Nigeria Limited,Nigeria is to make financial investments with view to improving quality of learning and teaching of information and communication technology in schools.

22.07.2005 In an attempt to tackle the problem of poverty and increase their technical knowledge base, the Rwandan government will focus on developing its Information and communications technologies (ICTs) capacity.

22.07.2005 An online survey to elucidate the technical and other related problems faced by African institutions and information professionals in creating digital libraries was recently launched

20.07.2005 Computer Aid International is donating computers from developed countries to developing countries, from London for example, to various states in Africa are used to provide education and other facilities to the people who otherwise cannot afford a computer.

20.07.2005 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation(UNESCO)country office in Africa expressed its support to the ongoing capacity building endeavours of the country.

20.07.2005 The Sebeta School of the Blind in Ethiopia has introduced computerised braille technology.

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The goal of this four-week long email discussion is to raise awareness of critical issues around intellectual property rights (IPR) for Africa, to provide an overview of the existing legal processes and tools, to discuss alternatives to the current situation, and to facilitate exchange and collaboration between individuals and organisations working in this field.

15.07.2005 The Education Tax Fund (ETF) has allocated N1.2 billion for the provision of information communication technology and capacity building in Nigerian universities.

13.07.2005 Journalists from Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and the host Zimbabwe attended recently a workshop entitled "Education Makes News!". The workshop that run concurrently with Zimbabwe’s celebration of the Education for All (EFA) Week familiarized journalists with EFA’s Goals and objectives.

13.07.2005 Community radio practitioners gather today from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Niger to attend a week-long training that forms the basis of UNESCO’s “Science of HIV and AIDS” media training programme.

09.07.2005 George Owusu-Afriyie describes how BG-BASE, a database program designed to manage information on botanical collections, is helping to conserve medicinal plants in Ghana.

09.07.2005 Africa faces a difficult challenge in meeting the main target of the first Millennium Development Goal— to halve the number of people suffering from malnutrition and hunger by 2015.

09.07.2005 Having access to relevant, quality agriculture information is critical to farmers' livelihoods, improving their productivity and ability to diversify and compete in modern markets, as well as improving the health of their families.

09.07.2005 A variety of fairly straightforward rural ICT interventions may have greater impact on agricultural production and post-harvest activities then those that are strictly focused on agriculture.