AXIS (the African Internet Exchange System) is one of several projects launched by a partnership of European and African nations to target the digital divide in Africa.
Computer and Associated Products Limited, in partnership with European Institute for E-learning have concluded arrangements to host this year’s Learning Technologies Africa conference and exhibition, tagged "Learning Technologies Africa 2008." The event, with the theme “Delivering Qualitative Education,” is billed for Abuja Sheraton Hotels and Towers next week.
Addressing a press conference in La
With 60 percent of its 1 billion population under 30 years old, Africa looks to education, technology and investment to give its youth a path away from poverty and chronic unemployment.
But his most enduring achievement is likely to be M-PESA, a pioneering
service that enables Safaricom's customers to send money to each other
by text message. Cheaper and faster than ordinary money transfers, it
now moves $1.5m a day across Kenya, in mostly tiny transactions, and
is being rolled out in India, Tanzania, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Mr
Joseph brazenly calls it the mobile-phone industr
The good cheer is not without justification. When Michael Joseph, the
chief executive who is largely responsible for the firm's good fortunes,
arrived at Safaricom in 2000 the company had 20,000 customers.
Vodafone's bosses reckoned that the Kenyan market would top out at
400,000 customers. Now Safaricom has 10.5m and room to grow
further. It is the most profitable business in eastern and central
Mr. Kamkwamba's wind obsession started six years ago. He wasn't going to school anymore because his family couldn't afford the $80-a-year tuition. When he wasn't helping his family farm groundnuts and soybeans, he was reading. He stumbled onto a photograph of a windmill in a text donated to the local library and started to build one himself.
The influence of culture and environment can have an effect on our visual perception. This theory was first explored by Robert Laws, a Scottish missionary working in Malawi, Africa, during the late 1800's. Take a look at the picture below. What you see will largely depend on where you live in the world. After you have examined the picture, scroll down for a more detailed explanation.
Kigali, Rwanda - Sometime in the next two years, nearly every school in Rwanda – from distant mountain villages to swelling urban areas – will be hooked up to the Internet. And it won't be some crummy dial-up service. It will be high-speed broadband, carried by fiber-optic cables.
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AXIS (the African Internet Exchange System) is one of several projects launched by a partnership of European and African nations to target the digital divide in Africa.
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But his most enduring achievement is likely to be M-PESA, a pioneering service that enables Safaricom's customers to send money to each other by text message. Cheaper and faster than ordinary money transfers, it now moves $1.5m a day across Kenya, in mostly tiny transactions, and is being rolled out in India, Tanzania, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Mr Joseph brazenly calls it the mobile-phone industr
Mr. Kamkwamba's wind obsession started six years ago. He wasn't going to school anymore because his family couldn't afford the $80-a-year tuition. When he wasn't helping his family farm groundnuts and soybeans, he was reading. He stumbled onto a photograph of a windmill in a text donated to the local library and started to build one himself.
The influence of culture and environment can have an effect on our visual perception. This theory was first explored by Robert Laws, a Scottish missionary working in Malawi, Africa, during the late 1800's. Take a look at the picture below. What you see will largely depend on where you live in the world. After you have examined the picture, scroll down for a more detailed explanation.
Bridging Africa's digital divide
Kigali, Rwanda - Sometime in the next two years, nearly every school in Rwanda – from distant mountain villages to swelling urban areas – will be hooked up to the Internet. And it won't be some crummy dial-up service. It will be high-speed broadband, carried by fiber-optic cables.
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