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Kicking Conflict Into Touch: How Sport And Technology Unite Community And Conservation In Kenya

Njenga Kahiro | National Geographic | August 15, 2013

Football has long been recognised as a unifying sport, with the ability to bring sides together in some of the most trying of circumstances. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Njenga Kahiro shares his very personal experience of how a combination of football and text messaging have successfully brought together warring communities to promote conservation in Kenya. Read More »

Kuhonga’s Anti-Corruption Strategy In Kenya

Lewis Kirvan | Ushahidi | January 14, 2013

We’ve seen a rise in anti-corruption mapping. In the past few months, we’ve featured projects from Kosovo, Zimbabwe and even provided global overviews. [...] Today we are proud to share Kuhonga‘s journey, because it is both a global story and a Kenyan story. Read More »

Long May the SMS Reign

Toby Shapshak | Times Live | June 11, 2012

THE greatest communication mechanism in the world is arguably still SMS - the short message service sent over cellphones.

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Medical Drones Could Beat Amazon to the Skies, with Harvard Help

Hiawatha Bray | The Boston Globe | March 9, 2016

The less you’ve got, the less you’ve got to lose. Which is why cargo delivery drones may become popular in Africa long before they catch on over here. Jonathan Ledgard thinks it’ll happen. The former chief Africa correspondent of the news magazine The Economist is coming to Boston on Thursday to lay out his plan to build a cargo network called Redline. Developed with help from students at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and backed by the government of Switzerland, Redline will use drones to deliver medical supplies to remote parts of Rwanda. It has already raised $8 million...

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Mentorship For Publishing African Health Research

Janice S. Pedersen | PloS | July 12, 2012

In the second post of a short series reflecting on last month’s Getting in the Access Loop webinar organised by the Humanitarian Centre, HIFA2015 and PLoS, Janice S. Pedersen from RAND Europe discusses how mentoring capacity for publication might be improved. Read More »

Ministry of ICT and NITA Uganda Urge on Adoption of Open Source Software

Nathan Ernest Olupot | PC Tech | August 22, 2016

Ministry of ICT and NITA Uganda Urge on Adoption of Open Source Software
Increased awareness, integration and adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Uganda, both by government and the private sector is key to improved service delivery by government, reduced cost of public service deliver as well as improve competitiveness of Uganda’s ICT and ICT Enabled Services (ITES), Hon. Frank Tumwebaze, Uganda’s ICT and National Guidance Minister has said...

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Mobile Data: How Phones Help Keep The Water Flowing

Zarah Rahman | National Geographic | February 13, 2013

We often don’t associate the problem of water scarcity with mobile phones but, as Zarah Rahman of the Aquaya Institute explains, water is about much more than turning on a tap. [...] Read More »

Mobile Health Around The Globe: Ghana - Changing The Very Essence Of Healthcare

Rhona Finkel | Health Tech Hatch | August 13, 2012

Ghana faces some serious challenges when it comes to healthcare delivery.
As the Austrian Red Cross points out, although the country has a population of nearly 23.5 million people, there are only 1,439 health care facilities, unevenly distributed across the country. Read More »

Mobile Phones And Economic Development In Africa

Jenny C. Aker and Isaac M. Mbiti | Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) | June 1, 2010

Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the lowest levels of infrastructure investment in the world. [...] Yet access to and use of mobile telephony in sub-Saharan Africa has increased dramatically over the past decade. Read More »

Modem To Improve African Net Access

Jane Wakefield | BBC News | June 11, 2013

A modem designed specifically for Africa has been announced at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh. Read More »

Modem To Improve African Net Access Launched By Ushahidi

Cleopa Timon Otieno | Telecentre | June 13, 2013

A modem designed specifically for Africa has been announced at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh. Read More »

Modems For Africa – From Africa

Simon Allison | Guardian | June 20, 2013

Kenyan collective Ushahidi's smart, rugged new device keeps you online during power cuts and doesn't mind a little dust Read More »

Mosquitoes and Malaria: Taking a Big Step Against a Small but Deadly Foe

Shaun Donovan | White House Blog | February 22, 2016

If you’ve ever swatted away a mosquito on a muggy summer night, then you know how annoying these winged pests can be. But in many parts of the world, mosquitos are not just irritating—they’re deadly. Malaria, which is transmitted by mosquitos, took the lives of 438,000 people worldwide last year. More than 3 billion people remain at risk of contracting this horrific disease, which is especially dangerous for pregnant mothers and young people...

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