Full coverage: East 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).

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 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.

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

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.

07.07.2005 What do dot-ORG projects in Mali, Brazil, Macedonia and Uganda have in common beyond the fact that they all involve the provision of some form of information technology?

07.07.2005 Do educators who learn online feel part of a community? Is online teacher professional development intellectually rigorous, relevant and cost-effective?

06.07.2005 UGANDA Telecom (utl) has introduced a high-speed wireless Internet service.

05.07.2005 Information on local varieties of sweet potatoes, including current production constraints, and germplasm samples are compiled using DIVA – GIS, a software package developed at the International Potato Centre (CIP) in Bolivia.

05.07.2005 Despite the increase in computer ownership in Kenya, the efforts to ensure the benefits of ICTs to majority of the Kenyans are handicapped with varioius obstacles.

05.07.2005 The Global Networked Readiness in Education survey seeks to aid school leaders and policymakers by helping them to examine the role and effects of integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs) into formal learning.