Full coverage: Africa

30.09.2005 Four South Africans have set up a social networking website to connect South Africans from all over the world.

30.09.2005 UNESCO will support a workshop on preparing a master plan for the national press in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to be organised in Kinshasa from 18 to 21 January 2006 by the Ministry of Press and Information.

29.09.2005 The Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) has launched a mobile summons printing and warrant faxing system that will enable traffic officers to re-issue summonses and produce warrant copies to traffic offenders on the road.

29.09.2005 Ethiopian and Swedish terminologists will cooperate through an agreement recently reached between the National Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ethiopia (NATIE) and the Swedish Centre for Terminology (TNC).

27.09.2005 A programme to boost information technology in schools will be launched by President Kibaki in Isiolo,Nairobi.

26.09.2005 Deputy minister of communications, Roy Padayachie of S.Africa has recently launched a telecentre at the Qalabotjha multi-purpose community centre (MPCC) in the Free State.

26.09.2005 A new project managed by AfriAfya and supported by Exchange is using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to communicate about health and development.This health communication project engages the knowledge of marginalised people in Kenya. The main emphasis is on analysing what information can be exchanged to improve the communities' situations.

22.09.2005 The march to a cashless society in Ghana has been boosted by the putting up of a common Automated Teller Machine (ATM) platform for five major banks in the country.

22.09.2005 A five-week workshop for African creators of animated cartoons was recently held in Durban, South Africa, as part of UNESCO’s Africa Animated! initiative for the production of children’s cartoons.

21.09.2005 Computer Aid International is working with Computers for Schools Kenya to install PCs in schools and provide the technical support and software needed need to use computers as an educational tool.

19.09.2005 UNESCO will support the organisation of the second World Electronic Media Forum that will be held in Tunis from 15 to 16 November 2005, in connection with the second phase of World Summit on the Information Society.

16.09.2005 This report is an analysis of HealthNet Uganda’s business model, including a description of challenges HealthNet Uganda is likely to face and recommendations for how to forestall those challenges. The project conducted market and profitability analyses and identified potential clients.

16.09.2005 The digital divide between rich and poor is slowly becoming a divide between African countries and the rest of the world, said Rudolph Muller, lecturer at the department of business IT at the University of Johannesburg and founder of the broadband Web site, MyADSL.

15.09.2005 The Government of Ethiopia is the first to deploy the Development Gateway Foundation's Aid Management Platform (AMP), a web-based information-sharing tool that helps improve the coordination and harmonisation of international development aid to ensure greater results for people in developing countries.

14.09.2005 Cisco Systems volunteers have just returned from Ethiopia, describing their experiences they had as part of their e-Enabling Ethiopia - Transforming Africa initiative, an educational program that enables people to learn the benefits of new computer technologies.

13.09.2005 UNESCO has extended its financial support to a project aiming towards leadership developnent among young women in Uganda. Supported within its Information for All Programme framework, UNESCO aims to foster "principles and practices of alternative leadership and to build their confidence in the use of ICT."

13.09.2005 Karen Banks, The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has recently issued a statement for stakeholders to sign a petetion protesting deterioration of human rights in Tunisia, with the Summit just 2 months away. The statement calls on all governments to "fully recognize the sovereignty of the situation and to bring pressure to bear on the Tunisian authorities to respect their international obligations".

13.09.2005 Delivering care to pregnant women and newborns in Lusaka is on the verge of becoming easier and more efficient, thanks to the advent of Tele-health, which is simply the use of information technology to deliver health services and information from one location to another.
Tele-medicine is a multimedia system using voice, video and data to deliver medical services to even the remotest areas. Tele-health works by installing information technology such as digital cameras, camcorders, digital senders and other medical equipment in all health centres.

13.09.2005 Two mobile technology programs in South Africa and Kenya are helping HIV/AIDS sufferers and their carriers cope with the challenges.These programs in tries to overcome the shortcomings of the overburdened health system coupled with shortage of medical professionals and high prices and lack of availability of medicines.

12.09.2005 MTN and Thinta Thinta Telecoms (T3) have launched multimedia centres in two schools in the Ugu region in KwaZulu-Natal as part of the MTN Foundation's Schools Connectivity Programme.