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- Issue no. 51
- October 2009
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FEATURED TECHNOLOGY: Hardware
Localizing languages..
A partnership to provide technology in African languages is helping to make technology more accessible to people across the continent....
The community call box..
A pilot project to introduce payphones, connected to satellite networks, is providing telephone services to remote communities and helping to develop the telecoms......
No time to wait..
The availability of broadband internet has increased rapidly in developing countries in the last few years, but it is still almost exclusively limited to users i.....
VoIP in the wilderness..
With no fixed-line service and mobile phone operators reluctant to invest in rural areas, the Fantsuam Foundation decided to provide VoIP to customers on its wire......
BROWSE TECHNOLOGY
all technologies...FEATURED Theme: Issue no. 66 - A future for telecentres
Support at the centre..
Information centres in Ghana overcome challenges to serve rural communities...
A model of sustainability..
A new approach to telecentres in South Africa focuses on collaboration and partnerships...
Diversify to survive..
Public–private partnerships revive Botswana’s telecentre programme...
A service to the community..
A Kenyan resource centre uses ICTs to gather and share agricultural information...