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Carnegie Corporation Awards South African NGO $1.8 Million to build Africa’s First Online Journal Archive

The Carnegie Corporation-funded African Online Journal Archive is the first free-use scholarly content website to contain purely African material. The full-text repository will include journals containing important African research across a number of fields, including medicine, the social sciences and environment.

African Cup of Nations 2008: Showcasing Ghana Through ICT (2)

So, you are keen to show Ghana off to the world—especially after that resounding trounce by the Black Stars, of Morocco. Even if we are a week away from the finals of the 26th edition of CAN 2008, it is still never too late to do one’s bit for Mother Ghana.
See Part 1 of the [...]

African Cup of Nations 2008: Showcasing Ghana Through ICT (1)

I had thought that given that it has been exactly a week since Sulley Muntari saved Ghana from disgrace at the 90th minute in the Ghana-Guinea game, normalcy would set in. Then I remembered that as Leonardo di Caprio’s character as a mercenary in Blood Diamonds said to an inquisitive American journalist investigating those diamonds, [...]

The Genesis of Facebook…Lessons to Learn

I’m sure quite a few of the people aggregating on Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/] know how the site came to being. The genesis of Facebook - is excerpted from Fast Company’s “Hacker. Dropout. CEO“, I’m sure there are several lessons for any budding entrepreneur embedded in the text:
Harvard didn’t offer a student directory with photos and basic [...]

Reporting the Connect Africa Summit

The Connect Africa Summit was held a couple of weeks ago in Rwanda. Over 1000 people took part, and it seems like the results are potentially quite promising.
The driving force behind this Summit, which is one of a series planned across the world, is the need to speed up the development process to attain the [...]

Cisco to invest $10mn on Africa

By Remmy Nweke. HANA Correspondent, Lagos, Nigeria
Cisco Systems is to invest $10 million to develop its network infrastructure on the continent.
According to the report, five African countries who stand to benefit from the initiative are Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Kenya.
Cisco, a global leader in networking is known to have transformed the way [...]

Lighting Africa

Niti Bahn brings the Lighting Africa Project to our attention:
Lighting Africa officially launches on 4 September, when organisers will unveil a competition for the design and delivery of low-cost, green lighting products for low-income consumers in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 350 companies have already expressed an interest - from Africa-based small businesses to multinationals [...]