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]
linux4Afrika is a German project which aims at collecting old but still functioning computers, remodel them and integrate them into a terminal server to be used in schools in Africa. During the first years, computers were sent mainly to Tanzania and Mozambique. The Software used on the computers is ebuntu, a Linux distribution which was composed especially for the use in schools. You will find manyfold information on the project's activities since 2006. ... [editors ilissAfrica]