Can anything good come out of the ghetto?
Yes! “Where there’s darkness little light can shine”, take a look:

Ajegunle.org has received tremendous media coverage and has been presented in various for a across the world (Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt, United Kingdom and Switzerland) as a case study on how ICTs can be used to aid development [...]

Foliofn Investments, an American firm has just introduced the first-ever screening tool to let investors build portfolios free of companies that support and profit from the genocide in Sudan.
Foliofn Investments launched in May of this year help customers automatically screen out companies on the Genocide Intervention Network’s “highest offenders” list of firms that operate [...]

Nigeria-based GloMobile has recorded an instant hit among the people of Benin Republic who have been trooping to dealers’ shops and Glo’s retail outlets to subscribe to the network.
In the first 10 days of commencing operations, the network has sold about 600,000 SIMs while over 200,000 lines have already been activated on the network.
The growth, [...]

I had the privilege of being a participant at the just-ended UNCTAD XII conference. In my view, it brought into very sharp relief not just how sophisticated international conferences have become, but how far the information society has come of age.

Sunday, April 27, marked the first anniversary of the issuance of two arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity committed in Sudan’s Darfur region. Tendai Maphosa (VOA) reports the Internet sites Facebook and Google are helping human rights organizations put pressure on the Sudanese government to hand over the suspects.

Ernest Madu, a Nigerian physician based in Jamaica is the founder of Heart Institute of the Caribbean; he offers advanced medical treatment at a fraction of what it costs American hospitals. As you watch Dr Madu’s presentation (via TED Global conference), imagine the health and business implications of his knowledge and experience in sub-Saharan Africa.

Seeing as some of the more popular social networking sites for Africa have not been covering UNCTAD XII here in Ghana, I am bringing you a perspective of one of yesterday’s event. Today is Day Four, and it ends tomorrow. As I write this, I shall be briskly getting up to go off to listen [...]