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In a tiny village near Kisumu city in Kenya, scientific researcher Mary Anyango Oyunga spends most of her time educating women about something they have always done – grow sweet potatoes.
But Oyunga’s message to the female farmers in Kisian village is new, even though it is based [...]
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Countries in southern Africa are producing so few scientific publications and patents that the region’s social and economic progress is threatened, and it could fail to meet its Millennium Development Goals, says a study.
The South African Development Community (SADC), comprising 15 countries, produced only around 0.7 per cent of [...]
Also needed are appropriate policies and regulations to spur development of innovative mobile phone-based applications
The fast-growing use of cell phones in Africa — where many people lack the basic human necessities — has made headlines worldwide the past few years. The surprising boom has led to widespread speculation that cell phones could potentially transform [...]
In the summer of 2008, IBM announced the opening of new “cloud computing” centers in South Africa and China. Cloud computing enables the delivery of personal and business services from remote, centralized servers (the “cloud”) that share computing resources and bandwidth — to any device, anywhere.
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In May 2008, the World Bank Institute (WBI), in collaboration with the Danish Government, Global Development Network, Economic and Social Research Foundation in Tanzania, and other World Bank units, organized a conference in Tanzania. The conference was designed to facilitate learning and discuss concrete achievements on key policies, practices, and actors that help enable [...]
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