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The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank have completed a seminar on improving the hydrological and meteorological systems in Africa. 
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Ebola is now entrenched in the capital cities of all three worst-affected countries and is accelerating in almost all settings.
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As we constantly point out, Bitcoin is an excellent entry gate to financial services, crowd-funding and e-commerce for the citizens of this world who live in countries where the banking infrastructure is, at best, outdated. CryptoCoinsNews met a Tunisian entrepreneur who successfully launched a Bitcoin marketplace for website themes.
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Visual artist Melle Smets and researcher Joost van Onna followed the travel of discarded cars from Europe to Ghana and ended up at Suame Magazine, near the town of Kumasi, in Ghana. In this area, 200,000 artisans are working in 12,000 workshops, stores and factories to repair and give a new life to European disused vehicles.
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Bitcoin In Kenya - A Film By Tomer Kantor
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The University of Nairobi’s Science and Technology Park is banking on 3-D prototyping to spark a manufacturing revolution in the country. Lenny Ruvaga has mo... (See how @FabLab students in Nairobi are #3Dprinting medical devices for infants.
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In the late 1990s, a Ugandan intellectual and civil society activist called Paulo Wangoola returned home to the Kingdom of Busoga on the Eastern shores of Lake Victoria. After 25 years of work in various parts of Africa and abroad, his message to his Elders was this:
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As 3D printing and scanning technologies continue to drop in price, their availability to individuals and organizations within developing nations continue to expand. Not only does this allow access to printers in these less fortunate areas of the world, but it also allows for cheap access to whatever these printers can fabricate.
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Wiredu discusses the consensus principle in the political system of the Ashantis in Ghana as a guideline for a recommendable path for African politics.
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Tshwane has launched a project that will help pupils master science subjects from primary to secondary schools.
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The socially-focused bitcoin startup aims to "cut through" the inefficiencies in international remittances and underdeveloped banking systems.
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Spreading a 'hacker mentality' of hands-on problem solving with available equipment may help to reboot development - but only with coordinated information management and hacking workshops, a meeting has heard.
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Initiated by Andrew Paterson (Helsinki), in conversation with Michel Bauwens & Irma Wilson (Johannesburg), with aim to gain better understanding of the P2P developments in Africa that are emergent in the form of hacker & makerspaces and fablabs. Further suggestions most welcome to develop this list beyond the those listed in Fablab directory.
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Search engine company to bring Wi-Fi to remote African regions in emerging markets
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The Africanization of social platforms, virtual connections & peer-to-peer services.
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13 million person pilot of national identity card combines both biometric verification for state services and a prepayment wallet aimed at bringing financial services to the poorest.
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For the past couple of years, UNICEF Uganda and partners have been designing, developing, prototyping and rolling out youth-focused community computers that can operate on mains power where available, or solar-power in remote rural areas. Work has just finished on the design of the second generation Digital Kiosk, and the UK's fanless computer specialist Aleutia is now working on a new open source, low power computer system to squeeze into the table-topped repurposed oil drum that will become the Digital Drum.
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The maker movement event will be coming to Johannesburg this September, offering makers the chance to change (and 3D print) history.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This graph is worth as many as you can take out of it.
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Try to imagine what your life would be like if you had no bank account, no credit or debit cards, and no cash, and on top of that, you lived in a country where poverty, crime, and corruption were rampant. I’ve never been there, but by many reports Kenya is just such a place. How do people cope?
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In a recent blog for the Guardian, development economist Ha-Joon chang stated "we are seeing the beginning of the end of the neoliberal approach to development" suggesting we are on the edge of an entirely new chapter in development economics. Could alternatives such as Africapitalism, philanthropic investment and social enterprise replace aid as mechanisms to stimulate economic growth? Or can we expect to see development as usual?
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Despite its global reach, Bitcoin flows now pale in comparison to those among Kenya's 45 million people over the course of their six-odd years in existence.
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