Full coverage: East Africa

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 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.

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.

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.

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."

08.09.2005 The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy for improving child health has been adopted in many countries.The pertinent question being,whether it is more cost-effective and impactful than conventional approaches to child health care ?A World Health Organisation multi-country evaluation of IMCI was set up to identify information to help improve the delivery of the strategy. In Tanzania, the study focuses on two rural districts where facility-based components of IMCI are being implemented.