The world's cities are going to have to support most of the world's growing population. So we have to make them easier to live in. Three award-winning projects are documenting their quest to bring sustainable measures to some of the ...READ»
The Lord's Resistance Army has been waging a brutal war in Uganda for more than 20 years, with hardly a mention in the media. A new piece of software--based on Salesforce--is now tracking the atrocities.READ»
Infant mortality counts among the most heartbreaking -- and preventable -- problems vexing the developing world. Research has shown that improving parents’ education in the nuts and bolts of child rearing can be a powerful antidote. ...READ»
The Ugandan government, facing social unrest over high food and fuel prices, will order its ISPs to block Twitter and Facebook. It's the latest move in controlling social media to control a popular social movement. But it's a curiously manual type of disconnection.READ»
Just out of college in 2003, Jason Russell and his buddies, Loren Poole and Bobby Bailey, decided they'd use their film-making talents to go to the Sudan in search of a war. They ended up in Gulu, Uganda where they tripped camera-first into the world's worst case of mass child abuse, abduction, murder, and rape.READ»
The non-profit social venture assists the Gulu Agricultural Development Company, and aims to "provide more than just capital" as region hopes to recover from years of civil war.READ»
In the third of our series on social entrepreneurs, we profile a money manager whose epiphany in Uganda helped create a whole new online portal for global social investing.READ»
In the past year, African nations, such as Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda, have been investing billions of public and private dollars in green technologies, like renewable energy and organic agriculture. Economist Steven Stone of ...READ»
While you were slumbering in your bed, innovación was dancing a pasa doble with the Jules Rimet trophy on its head, crying tears of alegría, and wibbling about in a state of what can only described as benevolent inebriation. Way to ...READ»
Social media is a fabulous tool to organzie against injustice--just ask some of the big grassroots online gorups like Credo and MoveOn. And one of the things I like best is that ordinary people with no special credentials or following ...READ»
Many residents of African countries can't afford a computer, but the continent has the world's highest cell phone growth rate, with one-third of the population already owning a mobile phone. That's why Google unveiled its Google ...READ»
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A Breakdown of the Costs of Doing Business in Africa
The goal of this article is to provide insight for those of you interested in starting businesses in Africa. I’ll break down ...READ»
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The Next 2 Billion: The China/Africa Connection Explored
The combined populations of China and the fifty-three countries that make up Africa account for well over 2 billion people or ...READ»
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Ugandan Students Translating Firefox into Local Languages
Students in Uganda begin translating Firefox into local African languages.
Alltop.com Notices Africa
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Moving from Prepay to Subscription
The majority of people in developed regions of African countries still have no access to credit cards. Of the African banks that do offer credit or debit cards, ...READ»
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Google Invests in Kenya’s Mobile Planet
This week Google made the announcement that it is making a minority stake investment into Kenyan mobile operating company Mobile Planet…
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