Ghana
Development | Development | Trade
Google to compete with Ghana media
afrol News, 2 December - Internet giant Google today launched a new "marketplace" product exclusively in Ghana. If successful, it could seriously threaten Ghanaian media's main revenue source.
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Tanzania
Development | Social services
Pedal power may clean up Tanzania slum
afrol News, 19 November - The slums of the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, are an unhealthy and smelly place due to freely flowing sewage. Now, a researcher has found a low-threshold technology without needing electricity that could clean up the slum.
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Africa
Telecom | Telecom
Every 2nd African has mobile subscription
afrol News, 17 November - Africa this year crossed the 500 million active mobile subscriptions mark. By now, every second person of Africa's 1,033 million inhabitants can be reached by phone, making Africa a sizable market.
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Kenya
Development | Development | Social services
E-payment for a cup of water in Kenya
afrol News, 22 October - In a rural district grossly neglected by Kenyan authorities, private actors have introduced groundbreaking technology to provide basic services. E-payment, microfinance and solar energy secure safe water for villagers.
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Kenya
Development | Policy | Primary Education
Kenyan pupils find teachers in laptops
afrol News, 21 October - Gladys Lokilamak is always cheery in the afternoons. This is the time that she and her colleagues at the remote Asilong Primary School in north-western Kenya normally find fun in education - through laptops.
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Cape Verde
Development | Energy | Infrastructure | Policy
Cape Verde gets Africa's first giant wind farm
afrol News, 7 October - Finally, the funding to design, build and operate onshore wind farms on four islands in the Cape Verde archipelago has been granted. The ground-breaking project is seen as a model for renewable energy projects in Africa at large.
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Africa
Development | Development | Higher Education
Open-source software intakes African universities
afrol News, 9 June - Academic research software is still unavailable in many African universities. Now, universities in Senegal, Mozambique, Cameroon, Madagascar and Equatorial Guinea work with partners in Catalonia to fill this gap.
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Egypt
Development | Industry | Telecom
Technology boom boosts Egypt's economy
afrol News, 13 May - A buoyant start to the year for Egypt's information and communications technology is fuelling economic growth in the country at large, according to the Cairo government.
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South Africa
Cooperation | Development | Finance | Industry | Law | Policy | Policy | Social Services | Trade
Microsoft play ‘big brother’ in SA
afrol News, 23 April - Microsoft will want to be a player rather than just a big spender in South Africa’s black empowerment policy, the company has said following the announcement it would spend about half a billion rands (about US$ 64 million) in the next seven years to boost local business partnerships.
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Guinea
Infrastructure | Telecom | Telecom
Guinea telecom industry "is flourishing"
afrol News, 21 April - Further international companies are investing in the rapidly growing telecommunications industry of Guinea, where mobile phones and internet is extending outside the capital, Conakry.
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Africa
Development | Development | Infrastructure
New broadband network for Africa approved
afrol News / SciDev.Net, 14 April - Funding for the first phase of an initiative to connect African research centres and link them to an existing European broadband network has been approved by the European Commission. The network is set to ease research in African institutions.
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Africa
Development | Development | Events | Policy | Telecom | Telecom
Is computer learning becoming redundant in Africa?
afrol News, 6 April - Teachers and technologists gathering at the eLearning Africa 2010 conference in Zambia will be debating a billion dollar question, attempting to work out whether future African students will learn from the telephones in their pockets or from the laptops in their classrooms.
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Mauritius
Development | Energy
Cold sea water to cool Mauritius pc-s
afrol News, 31 March - The Mauritian government is joining the country's private sector in an exciting project to tap the undersea cold water to cool off operations by data centres on the island. Large resources are currently spent on electricity for cooling.
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Ethiopia
Development | Development
Virus attack on Ethiopian websites
afrol News, 22 March - Several government and pro-government Ethiopian websites are being attacked by viruses, making them unsafe to accede. It remains unclear whether this is anti-government sabotage or a result of poor virus protection in Ethiopia.
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Africa | Rwanda
Events | Infrastructure | Policy
"New roadmap for African rails"
afrol News, 22 March - An "ambitious initiative and sustainable plan to boost and lay out a 21st century road and rail transport infrastructure in Africa" is to be unveiled at the inaugural Africa Roads & Rail Infrastructure Summit 2010 in Kigali, organisers promise.
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Senegal
Energy | Policy
Senegal considers nuclear power
afrol News, 12 March - The government of Senegal is considering building a nuclear electricity plant with French assistance to improve its erratic power supply. Currently, only South Africa has nuclear power plants on the continent.
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