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The way forward: Mobile health in Kenya
Blog My name is Titus Kolongei, and I work as a health information officer with the Division of Vaccines and Immunization, formerly KEPI (the Kenya Expanded Programme on Immunizations). I think wireless technologies will be very good for the future of...
[September 10, 2008, 8:04]
Kenya IT Computer Aid cycle challenge!
Blog Less than two weeks now till I am off to Kenya. The 400Km cycle from Mount Kenya, the second highest mountain in Africa, to Lake Victoria, will cross some pretty rough terrain with temperatures over 30 degrees most of the time.
[January 25, 2007, 11:05]
Kenya cycle challenge Day One and Two...
Blog Comment Keep at it, it'll be worth it - shame the van riders aren’t up to the challenge
[February 5, 2007, 13:32]
Kenya cycle challenge Day One and Two...
Blog Comment Keep pedalling! Sounds like a real adventure, we're all behind you here.
[February 6, 2007, 12:51]
Kenya cycle challenge Day Three and Four...
Blog Day 3 - Today was meant to be our most challenging yet, and it definitely proved one of the toughest. We started out in a place called Kabernet, on the edge of the Rift Valley. The day got off to a great start as we made our descent into the Rift...
[February 7, 2007, 17:31]
Kenya cycle challenge Day One and Two...
Blog I am writing this from a cybercafe in a very wet town called Nakuru on the way to the Rift Valley. We have been in country for three days now and its been a lot harder of a challenge than we expected.
[February 5, 2007, 10:51]
Flying doctors bring computer aid to Africa
News IT charity Computer Aid International is working with the African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF) to supply rural hospitals in Kenya with PCs, digital cameras and internet connectivity. Backed up by AMREF's flying doctor service, Kenya's...
[November 27, 2007, 11:01]
Donate your laptops to Computer Aid
Blog Thanks again to everyone who supported our Kenya Cycle challenge - it was an amazing trip. Teaching is one of the few jobs open to the blind in Kenya - people with disabilities are often hidden away from public view and marginalised - and getting...
[March 12, 2007, 11:22]
Harambee and the Cisco Networking Academy Program
White Papers When Michele La Rosa of Cremona, Italy, returned from several months of volunteer work in Kenya, he had a vision to improve the fortunes of underprivileged children. She I wanted to help Kenya and realised that she could do this with...
[April 13, 2007, 1:01]
Computers to Africa Diary: Days Two and Three
Blog I have just returned to Nairobi from a behind-numbing eight hour trip from South-east Kenya - down near Mombassa. The organisation, which takes no longer cutting edge PCs from the UK and puts them to very good use in developing countries such as...
[September 11, 2007, 19:12]
The African e-waste conundrum
Blog I am off to Kenya next week with UK charity Computer Aid to see some of the projects that PCs donated by UK companies have made possible. I have reported on some of these before such as the Dolphin Pen (USB Key) device which Computer Aid is...
[September 5, 2007, 17:41]
Photos: Old PCs help Africa's blind
News Following our participation in Computer Aid's cycle challenge in Kenya, ZDNet UK took some time to check out other projects being run by the organisation, which takes old PCs from businesses and refurbishes them for use in the developing world.
[February 13, 2007, 15:47]
Photos: How old PCs are creating opportunities
News Tony Roberts (left), chief executive and founder of Computer Aid International, cuts the ribbon on a shipment of PCs delivered to Kenya and hands over the first piece of kit to a pupil at Starehe Boys' Centre.
[February 14, 2007, 15:22]
Do your bit to bridge Africa's digital divide
News Next February three employees from CNET Networks UK, publisher of ZDNet UK, are going to be visiting Africa — and cycling 400km across Kenya — to cap off a six-month-long fundraising project to bridge the digital divide.
[October 13, 2006, 17:20]
Tagattitude signs East African Mobile Payment deal
Blog Tagattitude Nigeria, a subsidiary of the Global award winning mobile authentication solutions and payment provider, Tagattitude of France, has signed a deal with MobiPay of Kenya. At the signing ceremony which took place at Lagos, Mobipay said it...
[April 1, 2009, 16:57]
Bringing Computer Aid to Cuba
Blog Last year’s event was in Kenya (it's shocking to see that much of the violence in that country at the moment is in the areas around Kisumu where our cycle challenge finished) but the venue for this years challenge is Cuba.
[January 28, 2008, 9:54]
OpenOffice.org goes Swahili
News Swahili is the most commonly spoken African language -- it is the chief trade language of East Africa and is the first language of at least 70 million people living in areas such as Kenya, Tanzania, Congo, and Uganda, according to the team working...
[December 6, 2004, 15:05]
HP and the African e-waste problem: Round 2
Blog The PC maker has just released the first findings from this study - conducted on the ground in Kenya and Morocco so far - which you can find below. Computers for Schools Kenya have set up a pilot recycling facility in Nairobi, Kenya.http://www.cfsk...
[February 17, 2009, 17:03]
Refurbished PCs enlisted to fight AIDS
News The PCs, donated by CfBT, will go to towns such as Kiberia in Kenya — recognised as the largest slum in Africa and home to some of the most deprived communities in Kenya. UK IT charity Computer Aid is working with an education charity to provide...
[October 20, 2006, 12:45]
Photos: Charity wants your old handsets and cartridges
News The Make IT Happen campaign, launched late last week, will see the charity step up its call for businesses to donate their old desktops and laptops to the organisation where they are wiped of any sensitive data, refurbished and sent to countries...
[July 31, 2006, 13:55]
