Full coverage: Africa

30.05.2006 The Rift Valley Institute (RVI) and the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) have launched the Sudan Open Archive, an open-access digital library for Sudan, containing documents that until now were largely unavailable in digital form.

29.05.2006 For many African governments, moves towards embracing e-governance have gone little beyond the opening of websites for state ministries and departments.

19.05.2006 Information Minister Mutahi Kagwe says the government has set aside 2.1 billion shillings to install communication equipment that would enable rural areas access internet services.

10.05.2006 The Ghanaian government has begun the implementation of a strategic action-plan to effectively transform the country into West Africa’s regional information and communication technology hub by 2010.

08.05.2006 Most African countries are presently confronted by the challenge to implement the Science and Technology Action Plan championed by the African Union and the National Economic Partnership for African Development.

07.05.2006 The Association of Progressive Communications is inviting applications for a North African Regional Wireless Training Workshop in Morocco, from 12-16 July 2006.

05.05.2006 Wireless technologies offer developing countries an important low-cost, versatile alternative to wired infrastructure. They enable communities to extend the reach of cabled internet connectivity and to be in control of the planning, implementation and design of their own networks, making the network into a tool that really serves the needs of the community.

05.05.2006 A UNDP economic adviser - based in Gambia - says that information technology is central to the success of the Millennium Development Goals.

04.05.2006 Universal access to information and knowledge can yield positive spin-offs to help governments of the world meet the Millennium Development Goals to halve poverty and unemployment by 2015.

02.05.2006 Located at the Congo-Uganda border 500 kilometres south west of Kampala, the Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) Bwindi Impenetrable National Park telecentre - a combination of conservation and technology, is making a whole lot of a difference to the endangered mountain gorillas, eco-tourists, tourist stakeholders and locals who live in and around the park.