Zimbabwean political websites, online music & dating trends, Ghana VP on digital tech for change

Launched just last year (2010) with seed funding from the World Bank Institute, Libraries Across Africa is preparing to create thousands of public libraries at the lowest possible cost.

Africa’s IPv4, Zimbabwean Internet banking

Africans may be excited about the Internet, but they lack the necessary skills and guidance to use a computer, at least according to recent surveys conducted in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Fill the Gap, organized by Dutch development organizations Hivos and IICD, is an annual ICT for Development networking event held in the Netherlands. In 2011 the event’s theme was IT entrepreneurship in Africa. Keynote speakers were Google Ghana’s Country Manager Estelle Akofio-Sowah and local Kenyan IT entrepreneur Kamal Budhabhatti.
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