Efforts focus on accelerating adoption of smart devices, empowering small and medium businesses, and up-leveling skills development to ignite African innovation for the Continent and for the world REDMOND, WA, February 5, 2013/ — Microsoft Corporation (http://www.microsoft.com) today introduced the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative (http://microsoft4afrika.com/english), a new effort through which the company will actively engage in Africa’s economic development to improve its global competitiveness. By 2016, the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative plans to help place tens of millions of smart devices in the hands of African youth, bring 1 million African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) online, up-skill 100,000 members of Africa’s existing workforce, and... Continue Reading
Launched today, The eLearning Africa 2013 Survey will monitor African opinion on how the Continent’s learning landscape is changing under the influence of new technologies. Under the overarching theme of ‘Mobility and the MDGs in Africa beyond 2015’, this major pan-African survey will form the foundation of The eLearning Africa 2013 Report, which will be launched at the eLearning Africa 2013 conference in Windhoek, Namibia, from May 29th – 31st 2013. Building on the key findings of The eLearning Africa 2012 Report, the 2013 Report will analyse the integration of learning technologies in Africa, explore the development of locally-produced digital... Continue Reading
By Yolanda Ndlovu – Harare, January 31, 2013: A cabinet minister wants Zimbabweans to rekindle the conversation proposed by the inclusive government in 2009 about adopting the democratic developmental state to spur economic development. “We need to raise a discourse of a democratic developmental state, we need politics of development not politics of power,” said Honorable Gorden Moyo (in attached picture), Minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals, during a Food for Thought discussion session held at the United States Embassy’s Public Affairs Section on Tuesday. “It is naïve to say that we are a democracy when people are hungry and unemployed, hence... Continue Reading
New apps make it easier to track elections, monitor crime and identify best schools and health centers NAIROBI, January 30, 2013—New digital applications developed by the media and the civil society are making it easier for Kenya citizens to find the best schools and health centers, as well as monitor crime trends and election issues. The innovative internet-based applications were developed and hosted by three media houses and a non-governmental organization under the Code4Kenya. Code4Kenya is an initiative which is supported by the World Bank’s Innovation Fund in partnership with the African Media Initiative and the Open Institute. “These new... Continue Reading
By Special Correspondent, Dar es Salaam – A week after his country submitted its Country Review Report in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the auspices of the African Union governance assessment Mechanism-the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has promised to work on all the recommendations from his peers. President Kikwete and Michael Sata of Zambia Country Review Reports’ were reviewed by African Heads of State and Government participating in the APRM process last Saturday the 26th January, 2013. Speaking in Dar es Salaam on Friday evening in his scheduled monthly address to the nation, President Kikwete told the nation that Tanzania has... Continue Reading
