Perhaps no application of technology is as helpful as the benefits of mobile health. E-government, m-banking, e-learning, and e-commerce certainly have their respective places in societal advancement, but the immediate need for health information trumps them all. Mobile health has been around for some time, but has only recently seen …

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Google continues to work on making the Internet be part of everyday life in Africa. They are serious about Africa and their strategy is simple: get users online by developing a relevant, accessible, vibrant and self-sufficient Internet ecosystem. The current focus is to strengthen the African developer community …

Nii Quaynor, an Internet pioneer of Ghana, adhered to nationalistic bandwidth practices: 1) increase rates for Ghanaians who access international sites and 2) consider having affluent countries support high African access costs.

21 stories from the past week including: censorship, kiosks, e-books, fibre, Paul Kagame, co-location, mobile apps, e-commerce, gender gap, e-governance

g-Ghana conference, UN speaks to African ICT as societal need, Intel to test small-quantity prepaid broadband, ICT centre in Harare