Information and news around the topic of "open source software" in Africa ("A main principle and practice of open source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, 'blueprints', and documentation available at no cost to the public." according to en.wikipedia). ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Articles around the topic of "open source" in Africa ("A main principle and practice of open source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, 'blueprints', and documentation available at no cost to the public." according to en.wikipedia) and generally on the topic of ICTs in Africa. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
"Worldreader.org’s mission is to make digital books available to all in the developing world". A pilot project was initiated in Ghana. The website offers you information and reports on the project. [editors ilissAfrica]
"Emeka Okafor is a venture catalyst and entrepreneur who lives in New York City. He is the Maker Faire Africa curator and was the director for TED Global 2007 that took place in Arusha, Tanzania. His other interests include sustainable technologies in the developing world and paradigm breaking technologies in general. His blog, Timbuktu Chronicles seeks to spur dialogue in areas of entrepreneurship, technology and the scientific method as it impacts Africa. " ... [according to site editor’s information]
Programme and fulltexts of the papers pesented at the "World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council", which took place in Durban, South Africa, in 2007. As the conference took place in South Africa, you will find more papers from / about Africa (e.g. about Open Access). Nevertheless, all other conferences have papers on Africa, too, mostly gathered in a panel "Africa" or the like. See for "new website" >> "Annual Conference" >> "Past Conferences". Most papers are in English, for some you will find a translation in French or Spanish. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
This site offers a lot of interesting information concerning digital art in Africa. You can browse for artists, projects or interviews and hence discover many other interesting websites. [editors ilissAfrica]
Online study of the use of internet in Africa, with a focus on the historical development and the use of internet in education. The study was prepared between 1999 and 2002. [editors ilissAfrica]
The network CopySouth, which was initiated by Prof. Story of the University of Kent (Kent Law School) among others, analyses international copyright questions critically. The focus is on the relationship between "the North" ("The West") and "the South" (so called developping countries) and the question, which disadvantages the mostly Western style copyright has for the countries in "the South". The website provides you with a lot of fulltext documents and campaign posters about the following topics: Access to Information / Freedom of Information / Right to Information, Intellectual Property / Copyright, digital divide and much more. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
"The World Report series is a biennial report series that reports on the state of the world in terms of freedom of access to information, freedom of expression and related issues." You will find a country-oriented map interface and a question-oriented interface. The report will give you information on the amount of libraries in a specific country, on internet users and other things.
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Homepage of Colin Darch, presently Senior Information Specialist at University of Cape Town. Darch formerly worked in several other countries, among them the African countries Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. On his website, he offers his articles on different topics free of charge. The different topics are mostly related to Africa or "the South": Access to Information / Freedom of Information / Right to Information, Intellectual Property / Copyright, library science, Russia and Africa, politics, history and development policy in Ethiopia, Angola and Mozambique. ... [editors ilissAfrica]