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In Mali’s “digital Bamako” markets, vendors fill old phones with new songs — and jump-start a homegrown musical community. 
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The Women and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy Project (WEREP), an initiative by Green Energy Africa, aims to turn Kajiado County to solar power by training women as solar installers and encouraging them to market the clean energy concept to fellow pastoralists. The solar energy drive began in around November 2014, and so far about 2,000 …
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Facebook's Free Internet Limits Poor Users AllAfrica.com Rufus Pollock, president and co-founder of data access advocacy group Open Knowledge, says that by limiting people's experience of the internet to specific sites services, Internet.org...
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Last December, Open Knowledge and Code for Africa joined forces to launch a new open government fellowship, a programme that seeks to empower open government pioneers by giving them the opportunity to test their ideas on how to best harness the power of digital technologies to improve the way governments and citizens interact.
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With the arrival of low-cost solar, it's no surprise that the revolution taking place in developing markets these days is rooted in mobile-sun.
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The philosophy of Ubuntu, underlying many African indigenous knowledge systems, enjoys growing popularity in the northern hemisphere. As Yusufu Turaki summarized its essence, “People are not individuals, living ina state of independence, but part of a community, living in relationships and interdependence.” (…)
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Jeremy Rifkin - Africans now have assets to enter… : http://t.co/UnvIO1Y8Ut
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Skyline construction in Luanda, the capital city of Angola. (Reuters/Mike Hutchings) Bill Freund, an academic and author of The African City, isn't naive. He knows there's pessimism about his area of expertise.
Jason Schneider's curator insight,
March 9, 2015 5:12 PM
For now, Africa is known for it's lack of urban areas. There are more rural and agricultural areas than urban areas. However, its economy strength is thought to improve Africa's urban life. Burkina Faso seems to be the most grown city (in GDP & population) in Africa.
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In the days of armchair activism, where many get their activism fix by “liking” a progressive Facebook post, I’m fascinated by people like Kathleen who move beyond the safety of their computers and get their hands dirty in the world’s problems. Ten years ago Kathleen started a non-profit organization, The BOMA Project, after witnessing extreme poverty in northern Kenya. BOMA provides small grants to women so they can start small businesses in the drylands of Africa, where some of the continent’s most vulnerable residents face the challenges of climate change brought on by extreme drought. Since 2009, BOMA has helped change the lives of nearly 45,000 women and children.
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In the midst of e-waste traffickers, Africans are endeavouring to find ways to breathe new life into these discarded materials.
8A Nathan's curator insight,
February 27, 2015 2:34 AM
In dumps all over Africa, Africans are taking in what seems like useless E-junk and are finding ways to recycle it. From the large disposal of old technology as Africa moves forward, areas are filled with large amounts of what is junk to some could be worth a lot more after processing takes place. Many unorganized workers go there everyday at risk of their own health for the livelihood of their families. In some places the E-waste is taken to more organized facilitates where decent technology can be sold at stores for large amounts of money, but in other areas it is collected to survive. This article helped me understand how Africa is moving forward with technology, and that Africans are resourceful. The article stated that the E-Junk was hidden very well by the government, so it was pretty awesome when poor African families found all this stuff and are being resourceful and making money from it. This article made me sad that people have to do this to gain wealth but it also showed me how productive Africans can be.
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This year at AfricaCom, world leader in communications technology and services, Ericsson, will be showcasing future-shaping demos that will help operators improve network performance, expand revenue streams and enhance the customer experience. AfricaCom, the continent’s premier ICT conference starts on Tuesday, November 11 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
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FOR THE WORLD’S 1.2 billion poorest people, who are facing a long and perhaps endless wait for a connection to mains electricity, solar power could be the answer to their prayers. A further 2.5 billion are “underelectrified”, in development parlance: although connected to the grid, they can get only unreliable, scanty power. That blights lives too. The whole of sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of 910m, consumes only 145 terawatt hours of electricity a year—less than the 4.8m people who live in the state of Alabama. That is the pitiful equivalent of one incandescent light bulb per person for three hours a day.
Louis's curator insight,
January 16, 2015 5:57 AM
Technology bridging the gap between wealthy and poor nations?
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A place where entrepreneurs can turn their ideas into products, the BBC visits Namibia's "fabrication laboratory".
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As Africa’s economies are rising, so too is our understanding of its economic past.
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"For us, the impact of solar technology is unparalleled," said one of the women trained as a solar installer
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(Zimbabwe, Harare, April 17, 2015) Today thousands of women and men farmers of the international peasant movement La Via Campesina mobilize worldwide against Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) which affect peasant and small-scale agriculture and national food sovereignty. Since April 17, 1996[1] La Via Campesina celebrates this day as a global day of action with allies and friends.
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On the train to Manchester this morning I finished a terrific book I should really have read long ago. I’m very glad I finally have. It’s Morten Jerven’s Poor Numbers: how we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it. The title made me think it was only relevant to African statistics, when in fact anybody interested in GDP and national accounts should read it.
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That our kind has entered the Urban Age is unequivocal. In 2008 we became Homo urbanus. About 54 per cent of our kind - circa 3.95 billion people - now live in cities of various sizes. By 2030, about five billion people will live in cities. Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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Helen Sayers has an extensive international professional background. After learning more about Ubuntu in order to understand the depth of its meaning through research in literature, she decided to develop contacts with people who come from Ubuntu-oriented societies or who work to promote and implement Ubuntu through their work. In that capacity, she developed methods of training and education.
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Six years later, the Economist ran an editorial naming Africa ‘the Hopeless Continent’, claiming “brutality, despotism and corruption exist everywhere”.
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The talk is about the sharing economy, the role technology plays in it, and the opportunities this presents for sub-Saharan Africa.ted.com About TEDx, x = in...
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Why Africa? For many years lettera27 has been dedicated to exploring various issues and debates around the African continent and with this new editorial column we would like to open a dialogue with cultural protagonists who deal with Africa.
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Director Louise Hogarth was first inspired to make a film focused on elephants when working on her film, Angels in the Dust, in South Africa. Angels in the Dust is the true story of Marion Cloete and the orphans she cares for. The stories of the children are interwoven with the dramatic parallel saga of the orphaned elephants of Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa.
8B Maya Douglas's curator insight,
February 25, 2015 4:54 AM
This is a very short article about a movie that was director Louise Hogarth. She was inspired to make a campaign when she was working on her movie. It is called the OBC. People in OBC make bracelets out of elephant dung, to support the elephants. They also make notebooks out of elephant dung. These bracelets and other items are given to orphanages. The next generation of crafters are going to be paid with bitcoins. This is going to benefit them and the elephants. I think that it is cool that people are being creative, using waste, to support elephants and people. Here, in Thailand, elephant dung notebooks and other items made of waste is actually sold. I find it quite interesting that people are being paid with bit coins. I vaguely know what it is, but it is kind of confusing. My dad talks about bit coins sometimes, but I barely know what's going on. I'm pretty sure I'll know what they really are soon.
8B Maya Douglas's comment,
March 9, 2015 1:31 AM
A link to a video that helped me understand bitcoins."
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January 30, 2015 2:21 PM
Who: Written by David Moinina Sengeh concerns Sub-Saharan African community When January 15th 2015 Where Sub-Saharan Africa What Since nearly 70% of sub-Saharan Africa lacks access to stable electricity, it has become imperative to find a way to substitute the faulty yet very expensive appliances commonly used (Diesel-powered generators, etc). However, the problem is that installing a complete electricity infrastructure would be too expensive and take too long, making it counterproductive. A possible solution that Sengeh argues is that the increasing use of Microgrids, small, local versions of electricity grids, could strongly help give the population access to reliable, inexpensive electricity, costing about ¼ of the price for Diesel. Why This site shows the economic troubles the population of Sub-Saharan Africa face in terms of lack of access to electricity. However, it also demonstrates the strong efforts they are making in trying to make it more reliable, attainable, and less expensive. Further efforts also lend themselves to investing in renewable energy to provide these types of microgrids for communities not located near major towns.
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“Wiredu discusses the use of the consensus principle for political theory and practice in Africa. The consensus principle used to be widespread in African politics, and Wiredu elaborates on the example of the traditional political system of the Ashantis in Ghana as a possible guideline for a recommendable path for African politics. For empirical data, he draws from historical material published by British anthropologists (Evans-Pritchard & Fortes et al.) and Ghanaian intellectuals (Busia et al.). According to Wiredu, a non-party system based on consensus as a central principle of political organisation in Africa could avoid the evident problems of both the one-party system and the multi-party system imposed by the West.”
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