Full coverage: East Africa

28.02.2006 HARARE City Council has launched a $200 billion computerisation project to replace the current system that had become derelict and unreliable.

22.02.2006 Seated in his office on the 10th Floor of Teleposta Tower, Nairobi, Dr Bitange Ndemo, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications, cuts the image of a confident CEO sitting on the crest of a blue-chip company.

21.02.2006 Mungai recommends a more significant consideration of environmental issues in the regional and national poverty reduction and ICT discussions in Kenya. Specifically, he recommends addressing poverty reduction as proposed in the
MDGs and resolutions of the WSSD.

17.02.2006 L.J.C. Autrey, S. Ramasamy and K.F. Ng Kee Kwong describe the achievements in the process of introducing precision farming technologies in Mauritius, and the challenges ahead.

16.02.2006 The government (Kenya) aims to make Kenya an ICT capital of Africa to support Kenya's objectives of job and wealth creation.

06.02.2006 This paper sets out to locate Mauritian SMEs in the present context of global competition and more particularly to identify the extent to which they have adopted ICTs as a tool to meet the challenges which they now face.

03.02.2006 Ethiopian Minister of Health Dr. Kebede Worku said that the government of Ethiopia is preparing a Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP) for the next five years in which health, gender and HIV/AIDS are given emphasis. He also advocated technology training for health staff as a long term solution for the poor planning, inappropriate procurement, and poor maintenance.