Featuring an interview with Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, this film illustrates how ICT serves as a cross-cutting enabler in helping Rwanda to achieve the 6 Pillars of its Vision 2020, and how the World Bank’s eRwanda project is contributing to the process.

The proliferation of mobile services worldwide has created a unique opportunity to provide social and financial services over the mobile network. Wizzit is one such ‘virtual bank’ in South Africa that is challenging the branch legacy that is associated with traditional banks, in order to bank the un-banked. Per-Anders Pettersson, Getty Images

Imagine being stuck in traffic on a rainy Monday night in Accra. You are priviledged enough to own a laptop, which you whip out to start writing a report. Given that the inside of the taxi is dark, you request that the inside light be switched on so that you can see what you are [...]

The Ajegunle.org project is community-based capacity building project targeting the youths of Ajegunle slum in Lagos. The aims to train some 25 youths eac other month, who “will be equipped with ICT and entrepreneurship skills which they will then pass on to other youth, along with starting their own business.”
“On Thursday, March 27, 2008, A [...]

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The Microsoft-Yahoo! soap, in its second week, was turning out to have more thrillers than a CAN2008 tournament. The actors remain the same, but some have made their presence felt more than others.
The protagonist has got to be Yahoo! itself whose fifteen minute of fame has been abused by now: like MTN, [...]

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.
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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, [...]