A pioneering mobile ICT project launched in Rwanda barely two years ago is changing lives in this central African nation, now striving to become a leading ICT hub. Rwanda has made an almost miraculous recovery from the genocide of 1994 that claimed at least 800,000 lives and left millions displaced.
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The challenges faced by rural communities in Latin America include the lack of communication infrastructure and limited finances available to provide this infrastructure. With these as setbacks, there are little or no communication technologies to link the inhabitants to the city.
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The Jamaican agricultural sector faces many challenges especially where technological advances are used to propel the industry and new trading arrangements are being imposed under the banner of globalisation.
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Information and communication technology in agriculture is an emerging field in rural Kenya. The government is implementing a digital villages project which focuses on the development of rural areas through the use of ICT.
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Kenyatta University has set up a business incubator on its campus in Nairobi, Kenya, to help students develop their ideas into commercial products. The Chandaria Business Innovations and Incubation Centre (Chandaria–BIIC), launched earlier this...
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Leading phone maker Nokia will be collaborating with the Federal Government of Nigeria to establish a mobile software laboratory in Nigeria. This was disclosed by the Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, during an MoU signing...
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Poor farmers in Tanzania are using mobile phones, e-mail and the internet to access market information in real time. Market 'spies', known locally as shu shu shus, investigate prices and the details of what is selling at local markets, and use their mobile phones to report back to their villages.
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The Way-C, which means ‘the light of the stars’ in a dialect of northern Congo, was invented in Congo by 26-year-old Verone Mankou, under his company, VMK. The $300 device went on sale in Congo's capital, Brazzaville, and in the oil port city of Pointe-Noire.
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DONATA is a continental platform for technology dissemination co-created and co-managed by FARA Secretariat together with the SROs and NARS. Most of its work in the field is conducted through innovation platforms for technology adoption (IPTAs).
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The AkiraChix, an-all girls' team, was declared a winner of the recently held IPO48 software development competition in Kenya. The winning girls came up with an innovative M-Farm, a mobile-based marketplace that is targeted to small-scale farmers to...
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