Full coverage: East Africa

28.11.2005 Uganda has become the first country in the world to benefit from a healthcare information system that manages, measures and monitors the distribution of Anti retroviral drugs (ARVs).

28.11.2005 Two-week training for 26 students of the National University of Rwanda on radio journalism ended in Butare on 18 November 2005 with a graduation ceremony in the presence of the Rwandan Minister of Information.

23.11.2005 The first university / community radio station in Rwanda was officially inaugurated last week in the Southern town of Butare, where the National University of Rwanda (NUR) is located.

22.11.2005 Zimbabwe's president commissions ICT's initiatives that would bridge the digital divide between urban centres and rural settings.

18.11.2005 STOCK exchange market in Kampala is to end issuing of paper certificates to investors in the capital market late this year by introducing electronic accounts.

14.11.2005 The new livelihood skill training programme known as 'EXPRO',which is operating in Adult and Non-formal Education sub-sector, has been playing a significant role in supporting Ethiopia's poverty reduction programme.

07.11.2005 E-governance is a digitalisation of government service delivery mechanisms. This has its own advantages which include simplicity of service delivery, morality and integrity in the public sector as well as accountability, responsiveness and transparency in the discharge of public goods and services.

03.11.2005 The Communications Commission of Kenya has been challenged to introduce rules to regulate the Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) market in Africa.

02.11.2005 The women of Kalomo district, some 400 kilometres South of Lusaka are influencing and transforming the face of the district, socially and economically with the help of new technologies. These women, under the Kalomo Bwacha Women ICT club, are using the only and first resource centre of women in the district to improve other women’s money livelihoods by using the internet.

02.11.2005 It's taken over two years for Zambia to issue an ICT policy document.