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SMS Uprising SMS Uprising
Mobile Activism in Africa

Sokari Ekine

SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa brings together the experiences of activists using mobile phone technology on the African continent as well as providing understanding of the socio-economic, political and media contexts which activists face.

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Africa: eLearning Africa launches online photography competition

How ICTs are changing the way we live

2010-02-05, Issue 468

Berlin, Germany. Lusaka, Zambia. How have mobile phones, the Internet and computers changed people's lives on the African continent? To find out, eLearning Africa has launched an online photography contest. The organisers are inviting people from Afr...

Kenya: National survey shows Internet market heading towards “critical mass”

2010-02-05, Issue 468

The latest national survey from market research company Synovate shows Kenya’s Internet market is growing fast and on the basis of this growth will soon reach “critical mass”. The growth in users is coming from both urban and rural areas and is predo...

Uganda: Third Lango forum on e – agriculture

2010-02-05, Issue 468

Women of Uganda Network with support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP – EU (CTA), holds a bi-annual event called the Lango Forum on e-agriculture. This event is held twice a year in Apac District, Northern Uganda. ...

Africa: Google moves into Swahili

2010-01-27, Issue 467

Google has sponsored a contest to encourage students in Tanzania and Kenya to create articles for the Swahili version of Wikipedia, mainly by translating them from the English Wikipedia, according to an article appearing in the [url=http://www.nytime...

Global: OLPCorps

2010-01-29, Issue 467

OLPCorps is OLPC’s official field volunteer program. It is a worldwide community dedicated to transforming education for children who have had little or no access to modern information technology. OLPCorps gives young people the opportunity to contri...

Africa: New telecoms tax epidemic sweeps across Africa

2010-01-29, Issue 467

A new telecoms tax epidemic is sweeping across Africa adding to the already high tax levels imposed on operators on the continent. This time the tax is being levied on inbound international calls and will increase their costs by between 20-100%. This...

Ethiopia: International fibre companies want to get new connections

2010-01-29, Issue 467

Ethiopia has become a market for owners of high bandwidth fibre optic cable systems; at least four foreign companies are aiming to get all or a slice of this vast potential market, reliable sources disclosed....

Africa: Website launched to share SME success stories

2010-01-29, Issue 467

In any economy, a vibrant SME sector is essential for sustainable job creation, poverty reduction and private sector development. It plays a catalytic role in the development of any country. All accept that poverty-elimination in Africa can only come...

East Africa: Malili: Kenya’s planned technopolis

2010-01-29, Issue 467

Malili – a 5,000 acre East African technopolis – is a city built up for technology firms and it’s the Kenyan government’s way of creating a regional ICT brand. The Malili project is modeled off of other large technology and research parks around the...

Burkina Faso: Farmers teaching farmers

2010-01-22, Issue 466

After researchers in Burkina Faso identified the best crop varieties for the Sissili region, a local organization, FEPPASI, introduced ICTs to inform farmers and explain new growing techniques. As a result, production is up to nine times greater than...

Ethiopia: Pastoralists picture land use

2010-01-22, Issue 466

A team of researchers combine maps, satellite images and participatory mapping techniques to develop an accurate picture of land use among pastoralists in southern Ethiopia....

South Africa: South Africa hits 5m Internet users according to recent research

2010-01-22, Issue 466

In what is being considered a significant milestone for communications in the country, the number of South Africans to have access to the Internet has hit the five million mark. Research conducted by local analyst house World Wide Worx, in conjunctio...

Zimbabwe: Cabinet approves national ICT strategy plan

2010-01-22, Issue 466

Cabinet has approved the newly-crafted national information communication technology strategy plan and the ICT blueprint is expected be launched at the end of next month....

Uganda: Mobile Monday starts Kampala chapter

2010-01-22, Issue 466

Mobile Monday, the global community of mobile industry professionals and innovators, has now launched its newest chapter in Uganda. The Kampala Chapter was founded by representatives from Uganda’s telecom companies: Orange Uganda, MTN Uganda, I-telec...

East Africa: Tanzania to track supply of malaria drugs via SMS

2010-01-15, Issue 465

A pilot drugs supply management project called "SMS for Life" has Tanzania authorities excited over its potential. The project, which brings together IBM, Novartis, Vodafone and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, taps into a combination of smart tech...

Zimbabwe: IT to improve in five years

2010-01-08, Issue 464

Zimbabwe hopes to improve on its technological sector in the next five years. Technology Minister, Nelson Chamisa, said the country is embarking on a technological revolution path and drastic changes would soon be realized....

Tanzania: Public workers to undergo ICT training

2010-01-08, Issue 464

The University of Dar es Salaam Computing Centre (UCC) has launched a two-year project on capacity building on the effective use and management of information and communication technology in the public sector....

Global: A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights conference

February 12-13, 2010

2010-01-08, Issue 464

Access to knowledge (A2K) is about designing intellectual property laws, telecommunication policies, and technical architectures that encourage broader participation in cultural, civic, and educational affairs; expand the benefits of scientific and t...

Cameroon: Illegal telco operators: The most reasonable option

2010-01-08, Issue 464

In 1995, Cameroon initiated a restructuring process in the telecommunications sector. Placed among the least-connected countries in Africa (ranked 179th out of 206 countries classified by the International Telecommunication Union), the Telecommunicat...

Africa: Bridging the digital divide through open access

2010-01-08, Issue 464

Publishing scientific findings and accessing the research of others is an essential part of the academic process, particularly to encourage debate and foster innovation. But many research institutions in Africa cannot afford to subscribe to many scie...

Africa: Kenya to run SMS campaign to educate on Common Market

2009-12-18, Issue 462

Kenya is seeking the services of leading mobile phone companies in an ambitious campaign to market the East African Community Common Market. In an Obama-inspired campaign -- where ICT played a major role in galvanising public support -- the country p...

Africa: The (small, slow and sufficient) $99 “Africa” laptop

2009-12-18, Issue 462

Just in time for Christmas, a new low-cost, low-power netbook is hitting the scenes that actually retails for only $99. Cherrypal, the company behind it, has dubbed it “Africa”, as they’re focusing the little computer on developing countries....

Africa: Will Google Trader help farmers in Africa?

2009-12-07, Issue 461

Software and web-search giants Google on Monday November 1st, 2009 launched the online Google Trader pilot in Uganda to connect sellers and buyers of goods and services, including in agriculture....

Kenya: Wananchi lowers Internet prices with eyes on SMEs

2009-12-10, Issue 461

Multimedia company, Wananchi Group, moved to slash the cost of its internet offering by half, saying it was keen to cash in on its investment in fibre optic technology as it passed on savings to its customers....

Kenya: ICT training plan places 185 into employment

2009-12-10, Issue 461

An initiative by a mobile phone manufacturer, Samsung, and three non-governmental organisations to train youth from poor backgrounds in Nairobi in ICT and entrepreneurship is beginning to bear fruits....

Global: 10 tactics for turning information into action: new film

2009-12-02, Issue 460

10 tactics for turning information into action' will be launched at the Frontline Club in London, December 4. This event will be the first of a series of global screenings of '10 tactics', the documentary film by Tactical Tech. Locations include Nair...

Africa: How Europe's discarded computers are poisoning Africa's kids

2009-12-05, Issue 460

People in the West throw away millions of old computers every year. Hundreds of thousands of them end up in Africa, where children try to eke out a living by selling the scrap. But the toxic elements in the waste are slowly poisoning them....

East Africa: Uganda goes digital broadcasting

2009-12-06, Issue 460

Five Ugandan television stations are switching from analogue to digital broadcasting with 200 viewers receiving the signal in the capital Kampala. They are Kenyan-owned Nation Television (NTV), WBS, East Africa Television and Nile Broadcasting Servic...

Uganda: Mmobile operators to form rural power consortium

2009-12-06, Issue 460

Africa faces two linked problems that are holding back the extension of mobile services into a wider range of rural areas: diesel supplies are sometimes unpredictable and prices are high. For the first time mobile operators in Uganda this week sought...

Africa: Growing use of cellphones for family planning

2009-12-06, Issue 460

The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information....

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