Full coverage: Africa

28.04.2006 Media organisations and internet service providers (ISPs) in Zimbabwe are up in arms about the government's planned introduction of a bill to regulate cyber-communication in the "interests of national security".

27.04.2006 he young man who studied engineering at the University of Benin is from the Fantsuam Foundation [1], an APC affiliated non-profit founded in 1996 in the city of Jos, Nigeria. From the outset, it was known that his group planed the development of a unique computer that could fight the heat, dust and take on the challenging power situation of rural Africa [2]. But Onoberhie reveals details around the ‘Solo’.

27.04.2006 Administrators of Gakoni and Kiramuruzi sector in Gatsibo District want the government to set up an ICT centre at Gakoni Pyrotechnic School, to benefit both students and residents.

26.04.2006 The focus of this research was to develop a sustainable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) model in a Nigerian community, by evaluating ICT provision in South Africa's disadvantaged communities and comparing it with the Nigerian situation; to identify applicable models and service mechanisms; and, to identify pitfalls and risks.

25.04.2006 The Presidents of Rwanda, Tunisia and Senegal have been nominated for this year's ICT Africa awards in recognition of their role in ICT development in their respective countries.

Mr. Paul Kagame, Mr. Ben Ali and ex-president Mr. Abdou Diouf, respectively, will receive the awards at the end of the ICT African Ministerial Summit due early next month (May) in the Rwandan capital, Kigali.

25.04.2006 To complement our team, we expect to recruit an enthusiastic and team-orientated colleague. IICD’s mission is to assist developing countries in the use of ICT as a strategic tool for sustainable development and poverty alleviation. IICD does this through empowering local organisations and stakeholders to make effective use of ICTs on their own terms, and through catalysing lessons learned and knowledge sharing on ICTs by local organisations and the international community.

25.04.2006 You will be responsible for ICT capacity development of our local partners in one or two developing countries. To start with this will be Tanzania.

25.04.2006 A new study by Uganda's telecommunications regulator has showed that 46% of Ugandans in the capital, Kampala and three major towns use the Internet.

19.04.2006 Sarawak will look at alternative means to provide telecommunication facilities to the 280 rural schools in the state, which are yet to have access to the information and communication technology (ICT).

18.04.2006 Participants from various African countries, who gathered here, 11-12 April 2006, formed a NEPAD e-Africa Youth Programme, whose main objective is to build a cadre of young people who will raise awareness on issues of the Information Society and serve as active participants in building an inclusive Information Society in their countries and on the African continent.

17.04.2006 New technology is not always better. Sometimes simpler, more traditional communication technologies can provide the most effective solution to information sharing.

17.04.2006 Tumsifu Lema, 68, is an organic farmer in Shirin Joro village in Tanzania. He grows mixed crops on his two acres of land, including vegetables, maize, sunflower and coffee, and he is constantly looking out for new organic farming techniques.

17.04.2006 While India has been working on a Simputer, a low cost portable alternative to PCs that can bridge the digital divide, Africa has come up with the idea of a Solo computer, which can beat the heat, dust and erratic power supply in rural areas.

13.04.2006 LinuxChix - a women's-only computer initiative by an African group - hopes to empower the fairer sex in matters of technology and software.

12.04.2006 The Ministry of Information is to construct an Information Communication Technology (ICT) centre at Namong in the Offinso District at the cost of 39 million cedis to help improve communication in the District.

12.04.2006 Vendors in telecommunication equipment and ICT technologies must be bracing for a lucrative multi-million dollar Community Information Centres' (CIC) project, announced by the government recently.

12.04.2006 If you want to register a domain name with a Ugandan country code, .ug, the man to speak to is Charles Musisi, an Internet entrepreneur who has managed the country's domain names over the past decade.

12.04.2006 There are plenty of books, manuals and websites on how to write soaps for social development, for agricultural extension, or to raise HIV/AIDS awareness. Several of these have been important in the development of this manual , but until now nothing has described how to go about producing a radio soap which tackles violent conflict in a positive way; a radio soap designed to reduce tensions and to bring people together.

This manual tries to fill that gap within a clear and logical framework, to go from the idea to the finished product.

12.04.2006 Rwanda Development Gateway Group- a Government of Rwanda ICT for Development Project last Friday launched a countrywide program aimed at training secondary school teachers in information technology.

12.04.2006 Concerns about a worsening “digital divide” between rich and poor countries parallel the hope that information and computing technologies (ICTs) could increase economic growth in developing countries. Little research, however, has explored ICT growth beyond noting that it is correlated with standard development indicators, and no empirical research has explored the role
of regulation.