Rwanda: On the leading edge of the mHealth frontier
Blog Kigali, Rwanda -- With limited knowledge of the country aside from TV images from the horrific 1994 genocide, I was immediately struck by Rwanda's incredible atmosphere of progress and the resilience of its people.
[May 13, 2009, 18:01]
Hotel Rwanda Trailer
Downloads Watch the trailer for this Oscar nominated film. In the face of unspeakable evil, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees by granting them shelter in...
[February 25, 2005, 8:55]
Developing open source
News A small team of developers in Rwanda was just beginning work on a project to produce a localised version of OpenOffice, an open-source alternative to Microsoft's market-leading productivity software, when they realised they had a problem.
[February 16, 2004, 13:05]
Google brings hosted apps to Africa
News The company claims that Rwanda's educational institutions and government ministries and Kenya's universities are starting to use Google Apps. We are searching for innovative solutions to infrastructure challenges in Rwanda and other parts of Africa...
[March 22, 2007, 12:01]
Networking Academy Program in Ethiopia Bridges Both Gender and Digital Divides
White Papers With a bachelor degree in Public Administration from the National University of Rwanda, Beth Murora had but a few computer-related courses under her belt. She knew that the Networking Academy program, which follows the 280-hour, 6-month Cisco...
[April 13, 2007, 1:01]
Rwandan tech ambitions hit by corruption charges
Blog A contact who has travels to Rwanda fairly often and has been impressed by the country's investment in IT infrastructure over recent years, just sent me a rather worrying/amusing link. The country has ambitions to become the "Singapore of Africa...
[February 17, 2009, 12:37]
Data destruction claims rubbished
News However, the organisation fears media hype from mainstream press will see a decline in the numbers of computers it is able to send to schools and hospitals in countries such as Rwanda. A charity which reconditions second hand computers for use in...
[February 21, 2005, 11:00]
Nuggets: Probably the best encyclopaedia in the world...
News Couple that with a very cool Analyst Function - lets you query, for example, the different life expectancy between Rwanda and America - and what you've got is a very whizbang piece of software. Every day ZDNet UK News will bring you two Nuggets...
[March 8, 1999, 17:16]
OpenOffice gets the Zulu touch
News It is also helping other African organisations set up similar translation groups in Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania and Rwanda. The popular open-source desktop suite OpenOffice will be available in three new languages on Saturday: the South African...
[August 27, 2004, 13:00]
Tagattitude signs East African Mobile Payment deal
Blog At the signing ceremony which took place at Lagos, Mobipay said it will launch Mobile payments and Money transfer services in the East Africa countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Ethopia, Uganda, Rwanda and Sudan.
[April 1, 2009, 16:57]
Computers to Africa Diary: Day one
Blog Joining me on the trip are Computer Aid's chief executive Tony Roberts, Glenn Edwards - a renowned photographer who has done some truly powerful work covering the troubles in Somalia and Rwanda amongst others, and Graham Thom, a Computer Aid fund...
[September 9, 2007, 12:34]
