January 13, 2012
Africa: Communications Boost for Non-Profits
The Internet is changing, and the greatest impact may be felt in Africa. With the exploding use of the web globally and the planned 2012 expansion of the top-level domain name… Read more »
December 14, 2011
Africa: Using ICT Solutions to Reduce Global Business Emissions
The ICT industry, which contributes only two percent to global CO2 emissions, insists that ICT expansion is critical in achieving a low-carbon economy. Read more »
October 15, 2011
Kenya: Social Media Leapfrogs Drought-Hit Nation into a New Generational Order
Defying elders who flatly reject western culture, youth in northeastern Kenya are resisting efforts by spiritual leaders to ban social media. Read more »
September 07, 2011
Africa: Surfing the Radio Waves for Sustainable Agriculture
While the use of mobile phones is rapidly surging across Africa, access gaps persist between urban and rural users. But a new generation of social entrepreneurs is remedying this… Read more »
July 14, 2011
Zambia: Climate Information Alerts Boost Poor Farmers
A herder shepherding his animals in Zambia's Eastern Province winds up a solar-powered radio and crouches down to listen to a local FM station. The news broadcast includes a… Read more »
June 14, 2011
Africa: Is Your Cellphone Bad for Your Health?
A recent international conference focused on the use of cellphones to aid health care, made me think about my own health and my own phone. Read more »
June 13, 2011
Africa: Mobile Phones Improve Health Across Continent
Peter Benjamin is the general manager of Cell-Life, a South African non-profit organisation that uses cellphones to assist with healthcare in the HIV/Aids sector. Cell-Life is… Read more »
June 09, 2011
Africa: Call to Assess Role of Mobile Technology in Health
With more than 70 percent of the world’s five billion cellphone users living in low- and middle-income countries, mobile technology is seen as offering the potential to… Read more »
June 05, 2011
Africa: Exploring Mobile Communications for Healthcare
An inaugural summit on the use of mobile communications to support healthcare opens in Cape Town on Monday. Read more »
May 13, 2011
Africa: Mobile Phones, Radio Promote Rights, Says Amnesty International
Much needs to be done to secure human rights in Africa, but "the tide is turning" and mobile phones and FM radio have arguably done more than most other conventional methods to… Read more »
March 08, 2011
Liberia: Technology Eyed to Improve Lives of Women
In the densely populated community of Paynesville on the outskirts of Liberia's capital, scores of women are doing hard labor. Read more »
February 21, 2011
Libya: Citizen Journalism Leads Way in Covering Escalating Conflict
As international media struggle to cover a story to which they don't have access, Libyans both inside and outside the country are using social media to plead for more visibility.… Read more »
January 27, 2011
Sudan: Satellite Images Confirm Govt Troop Buildup - Report
A satellite mapping project launched by human rights activists says images captured during South Sudan’s independence referendum this month confirm reports that Sudanese… Read more »
December 09, 2010
Africa: Using Mobile Technology to Improve Health
Last year the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation - three of the leading foundations involved in global health, technology and… Read more »
November 23, 2010
Africa: Seizing the Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Health and Medicine
Each year, millions of people die from preventable diseases. At the recent 2010 mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, discussed the opportunity for… Read more »
November 18, 2010
Africa: Mobile Technology Revolutionizes Healthcare
The use of mobile technology to help improve health in both the developed and developing world is rapidly gaining momentum. A recent summit on mobile health technology, or… Read more »
November 11, 2010
Africa: Major Summit Promotes Mobile Technologies for Better Health
More than 2,500 participants from around the world in the fields of technology and public health have wrapped up a summit in Washington, DC, on how to more effectively deliver… Read more »
November 10, 2010
Africa: Mobile Phones 'Powerful' in Promoting Health, Advocates Say
Leaders in the business, development, health and research communities are gathering this week in Washington, DC, to plan how to more effectively deliver healthcare through mobile… Read more »
September 15, 2010
Nigeria: Jonathan Declares for Presidency on Facebook - Full Text
A declaration appearing on President Goodluck Jonathan's Facebook page Wednesday. Read more »
April 21, 2010
East Africa: New Internet Cable Links Region to World
The second major fibre-optic cable linking Africa's east coast to the world was completed Tuesday, the largest shareholder in the project has announced. Read more »
August 04, 2009
Africa: Mobile Phones Achieve More Than Aid, Says Industry Chief
Michael Joseph, CEO of Safaricom in Kenya, believes the mobile phone has had a greater impact than aid on development in the country. Read more »
May 20, 2009
Madagascar: Ravalomanana Lobbies on YouTube
Madagascar's ousted president, Marc Ravalomanana, may be down but he is not out. Read more »
February 16, 2009
Africa: Low-Flying Satellites to Bring Internet to Continent
As far as Greg Wyler is concerned the sky is the limit when it comes to providing low-cost, high-speed Internet access to Africans. Read more »
Africa: Closing the Digital Divide
In Nigeria, new subscribers are signing up with mobile phone services at a rate of almost one every second. In Kenya, they can transfer money, get exam results and even find dates… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Gambling On a Long Shot
To say in the late 1980s that Zaire was a developing nation required a huge leap of the imagination. It was sliding backwards in nearly every aspect used to measure progress,… Read more »
