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Digital Divide Africa
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This Community aims at helping the African people face the challenges of Globalization in this digital age. To help us use our cultures and heritage to create an impact in this world.


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oluseun onigbinde | October 29
He strongly believes in bridging the digital divide by orientating youths in Nigeria on the need to take a leap into the world of ICT. Contact: +2348024033857
i4d Award 2007 (e-india) for Overseas - GDCO, Sudan
ahmed eisa | September 6
During 31 July - 3 August 2007 the eINDIA 2007 Conference was held in Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi (India) where more than 2000 persons from more than 40 countries and 200 companies and organizations attended. The conference discussed the digital e-services including 7 categories 1) Telecentres...
1st in Africa - The Digital Citizen Indaba on Blogging
Gregor Rohrig | August 1
Here is an event I am looking forward too. The Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) on Blogging will be held in September (14-15th). Where? Well, right here in Grahamstown, and as being part of the New Media Lab, I will be...
Walking the Talk: partnerships in telecentre sustainability
Meddie Mayanja | January 24
One of the key challenges telecentres face in Mali is connectivity. It is either not available or very expensive. But what has not lacked is the sense of creativity among telecentre partners. They have turned to value added partnerships and...
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GDCO - Sudan & Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007
By: ahmed eisa, gedaref digital city organization (SUDAN) | September 17, 2007
The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 prizes will go to projects that demonstrate exemplary and innovative Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships. The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 is a collaboration between the Stockholm Challenge and Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP). The joint awards reflect the complementary interests and strengths of both organizations as important platforms for the global promotion of Knowledge for Development (K4D) and ICT for Development (ICT4D).

The flow of 1000 (one thousands) computers from Eindhoven to GDCO -SUDAN started
By: ahmed eisa, gedaref digital city organization (SUDAN) | June 29, 2007
The story of how Gedaref Digital City Organization got their computers to start helping people in the Sudan.

Redefining the Digital Divide
By: Subhajit Basu, Queen's University Belfast | April 18, 2007
Hi-tech hypesters claim that the Digital Age is vastly improving the lives and opportunities of people around the globe, while public-interest hand-wringers worry that it is creating a Digital Divide - an enormous and growing gap between the "technology-rich" and the "technology-poor," threatening social and economic stability and progress. Who is right?

Establishing Thin Client Networks for rural telecentres in Africa
By: Joseph Sekiku, FADECO Telecentre | February 13, 2007
Access to comoputers in rural Africa is still a challenge. In past years, there have been groups sending refurbished computers to some parts in Africa. Some of these end up as waste because either the hard drive s crashed. and thelo computer ir rendered useless and rubbish.

The Ndiyo Project: Workstation at the cost of a VGA cable?
By: Dr D.C.Misra | February 7, 2006
Ndiyo is a not-for-profit, Cambridge, United Kingdom-based project which was set up “to foster an approach to networked computing that is: simple, affordable, open, less environmentally-hostile, less dependent on intensive technical support than conventional PC-based networking technology.” It sees its two roles as: “Firstly, fostering the development of the requisite technology. Secondly,...

Africa in the Period of Sexual Revolution
By: Henry Ekwuruke, Nnado Foundation Inc | May 26, 2005
Africans reverse to your normal status quo and make African proud as it was from the original.

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