-
A revolution in a laptop
In an article published on Sunday, Aljazeera discusses Negroponte and his project to produce a $100 laptop for the developing world. Excerpt: After an inauspicious birth 25 years ago when Ronnie Reagan and Maggie Thatcher were in their prime, the IBM 5150, retailing at $1,565, ushered in the age of the modern PC. A quarter of a century on the legacy of the PC is ubiquitous. Chances are one is at work in every facet of your daily life ? chances are, you are using one r...
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
-
Small generator aims to empower Africans
Excerpt: Originally created to give an emergency kick-start to stalled boat engines, the sleek little South African-designed machine, pumped with one foot, can charge a cell phone battery in five minutes or a car battery in 30. The device’s creators, who plan to distribute it across swaths of Africa far from the power grid, hope it will energize economic development efforts as effectively as it does dead cell phones. Residents of Musheri Center, fit but fatigued from bicycling lon...
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
-
Business Joins African Effort to Cut Malaria
Excerpt: With malaria spread across southern Mozambique, executives at the international mining company Billiton expected some workers to call in sick as it began building a massive new aluminum smelter amid the cornfields here. What they did not expect was that nearly one in three employees would fall ill ? 6,600 cases in just two years. And they certainly did not expect 13 deaths, not after the company had built a medical clinic, doused the construction site with pesticides and hand...
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
-
Rwanda: The Village Phone Comes to Rwanda
Excerpt: The Grameen Foundation of USA, in collaboration with MTN Rwanda, is re-energising its Village Phone scheme to bring mobile telephones to rural communities where no telecom services have existed before....
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
-
Remittances Policy That Works: The Case Of Ghana.
Abstract: In an opinion piece, Yaw Sophism discusses Ghana’s policy for remittances....
- Categories
- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- remittances
-
The New Frontlines of Capitalism: Microcredit Comes to Borguind?
Abstract: A Peace Corp volunteer writes about her experience starting a microfinance program in Burkina Faso....
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
-
MTN eyes 3G, mobile banking launch in Nigeria
Abstract: Cellular giant MTM expects to apply for a liscence to provide mobile banking services in Nigeria....
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
-
Grameen Shakti, Rahimafrooz win world’s leading green energy award
Abstract: The Ashden Awards recognized four "pioneering projects from Bangladesh, India, Mexico and Tanzania," which brought electricity to rural areas through green power....
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa