Kenya Blackout: Internet is Up When KPLC is Down
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Last week, there was a countrywide blackout in Kenya. The electrical authority, KPLC, took the national electrical grid offline...
Empowering End Users with Pre-Installed Software
End users of computers in the developing world often want to engage in activities that are beyond the stock software that comes with popular operating systems, especially...
Cloud Computing in Africa? All Weather is Local
Recently there’s been a good discussion about cloud computing in Africa, where Ken Banks asks if its “Inappropriate” appropriate technology? Ken...
Xantrex TR1524: The Most Fraudulent Solar Inverter-Charger Ever
Buying solar power equipment for Africa is often a challenge. First, the USA runs on 110V, so most of the equipment here will not work with the 220V standard common...
Best Low Bandwidth Web Design: Emailed RSS
When you design websites for the low-bandwidth environment common in Africa, you come across constraints not considered by your average web developer. Paramount...
Wikireader: a Digital Library of Alexandria, Offline
No matter how much bandwidth comes via the new fiber optic cables, there still will be massive offline areas in Africa. So there will still be a great craving for...
Nokia: Win $125,000 For Uniquely African Apps
Here’s a great opportunity from Nokia for for African mobile and web application developers to create best-in-class applications. Nokia is offering $125,000...
Village Telco: Rural Voice Services Business Model
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Mobile phones seem to be ubiquitous in the developing world, until you leave the main population centers. Then service drops...
Broadband Beats Mobile Phones in Boosting GDP
Mobile phones are a ticket out of poverty for millions. No argument there. But check out this global ICT study by Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang, an economist at the World...
What Low-Cost ICT Devices Exist for Africa?
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Back before there was One Laptop Per Child and the netbooks it spawned, we had to hunt for information on ICT projects. Finding...
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