Making ICT work in developing countries
Information and Communication Technology or ICTs allow users to participate in a rapidly changing world in which work and other activities are increasingly transformed by access to varied an ...Read More
The Mobile Opportunity in Rural Areas
Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and Director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, says: “Mobile communication is perhaps the single most transfo ...Read More
Urgent need to prepare developing countries for surge in e-wastes: UN
Sales of electronic products in countries like China and India and across continents such as Africa and Latin America are set to rise sharply in the next 10 years.
And, unless action is s ...Read More
Med News Africa
Since its launch in May, MedNews Africa is seen an amazing growth. It reflects the fact mednews is much needed service. Mednews Africa aggregates news and reports from several sources with a focus on Africa. For example, we provide a summary of the latest pubmed publications related to Africa.
Mednews already holds 500+ stories on its database. Over the following months, we are introducing semantic technologies to provide semantic links between the stories.
3D Virtual learning platforms
Scientists ofand Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) are researching how to use 3D virtual worlds for teaching, a relatively unexplored area which offers enormous potential, according to the experts.
African Norway
African Norway is a community portal for people of African descent living in Norway. On this portal we offer the following:
News from reputable sources on development in Africa
You can advertise your education, skills and servicesThe main objectives of this website are (1) to provide a platform for Africans in Norway to present their skills and capabilities; and (2) to become a resource to other Africans.
The website is beta version and a final version will be developed later in the year.
New technology will mean shift for Internet advertising
TORONTO, ON – Placing internet ads on websites will be easier and more profitable in the future thanks to a new technology developed at the University of Toronto that allows ads to be resized to fit any available website space.
Internet ads are currently only available in three or four specific sizes, meaning websites must be designed around the ads. The size restrictions greatly limit ad placement options and affect the way ads look on devices such as the iPhone and iPad.
New research offers security for virtualization, cloud computing
Virtualization and cloud computing allow computer users access to powerful computers and software applications hosted by remote groups of servers, but security concerns related to data privacy are limiting public confidence – and slowing adoption of the new technology. Now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new techniques and software that may be the key to resolving those security concerns and boosting confidence in the sector.
Open Innovation Africa
Open Innovation Africa is an open source network of problem solvers. The website provides an intermediary platform for problem providers and problem solvers. Open Innovation Africa will also be a knowledge repository. More
http://mednewsafrica
We are pleased to announced the launch of mednewsafrica.com
There is also a mobile version. Click Here.
Advertising and Sponsoring
Kizuki Group has 45 registered domain names. 15 of these are fully developed websites with hits averaging 80.000 monthly. We are in a position to offer very competitive advertising rates, targeted to specific groups and subjects. For example, we published the West African Doctors Network. This is the leading network for doctors not only in West Africa, but across Africa.
Innovation Africa, African consultants.com and krooman address technology, business and globalisation issues. With Africa as the focus we provide articles and news on how technology and globalisation is affecting the continent. Our audience are business executives, development experts, international investors and global business thinkers.
WADN
We are pleased to report the Statistics for WADN in the last 12 months.
Total visits: 161.678
Page views: 545.349
We do not pay too much attention to hits. However we can report 941.578
Compared to the previous 12 months, WADN has increased by 40% its visitors and page views.
Medical and Health News on Mobile Phones
To meet the growing access to the web via mobile phones, we have recently focused on our wadn.mobi website. The website is now enhanced with new features and more content.
To appeal to a broader audience, we are also developing a new mobi site- medafrica.mobi. Med Africa will focus on health and medical news from a wider variety of sources. It will also focus on disease outbreak news and developments.
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Innovation Africa is an online magazine covering new ideas, concepts and people for the future. Innovation not only cover stories and report from Africa, but also from abroad. - KenyaOnline.mobi
- Krooman
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- MedAfrica
Medical content for mobile phones - Open Innovation Africa
- The Best of Africa
Those that make is proud. The people and news you do not normally see, hear or read. - West Africa Doctors Network
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Recent Posts
Innovation Africa
- UNECA-Leadership Through Innovation-Part II recently contacted United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and submitted our questions to Ms Aida Opoku-Mensah, Director – ICT, Science and Technology Division (ISTD). The purpose of our interview was to assess the work of the organization in pushing the innovation agenda across the continent. The interview is divided i […]
- UNECA-Leadership Through Innovation-Part IIInnovation Africa: I am impressed with the objectives of the second Science with Africa conference. These three objectives are exactly what is needed to make research, invention and new practices to innovation. It highlights the fact that innovation is a multi-stage process. What is UNECA doing to support research in Africa? There are a number of initiatives […]
- High-speed filter uses electrified nanostructures to purify water at low costBy dipping plain cotton cloth in a high-tech broth full of silver nanowires and carbon nanotubes, Stanford researchers have developed a new high-speed, low-cost filter that could easily be implemented to purify water in the developing world. Instead of physically trapping bacteria as most existing filters do, the new filter lets them flow on through with the […]
African Content
- Problem of fake medicines in developing countries could be solvedHalf of the malaria medication sold In Africa could be ineffective or even harmful. Researchers from Lund and the UK have now developed a technique that could resolve the situation Counterfeiting of drugs is a huge industry with an annual turnover of more than SEK 500 billion. In Africa the situation is extremely serious. Half of the malaria medication sold […]
- Virus related to smallpox rising sharply in Africa, UCLA researchers findMonkeypox has increased 20-fold in Democractic Republic of Congo since 1980 In the winter of 1979, the world celebrated the end of smallpox, a highly contagious and often fatal viral infection estimated to have caused between 300 and 500 million deaths during the 20th century. The virus was eradicated through an aggressive worldwide vaccination campaign, whi […]
WADN
- Mosquitoes use several different kinds of odor sensors to track human preyIt now appears that the malaria mosquito needs more than one family of odor sensors to sniff out its human prey. That is the implication of new research into the mosquito’s sense of smell published in the Aug. 31 issue … Continue reading → […]
- Problem of fake medicines in developing countries could be solvedHalf of the malaria medication sold In Africa could be ineffective or even harmful. Researchers from Lund and the UK have now developed a technique that could resolve the situation Counterfeiting of drugs is a huge industry with an annual … Continue reading → […]
- Virus related to smallpox rising sharply in Africa, UCLA researchers findMonkeypox has increased 20-fold in Democractic Republic of Congo since 1980 In the winter of 1979, the world celebrated the end of smallpox, a highly contagious and often fatal viral infection estimated to have caused between 300 and 500 million … Continue reading → […]
MedNews Africa
- Health informatics partnership is launched to expand informatics work force, improve health globallyCollaborative center to support knowledge transfer to low-resource partners AMIA, the U.S.-based association for informatics professionals, has launched a non-profit, wholly owned subsidiary organization called the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on health informatics. With genero […]
- Team discovers new type of anti-malarial compoundClinical trials for promising new drug candidate are planned LA JOLLA, CA – August 30, 2010 –– An international team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, the Swiss Tropical Institute, the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases has discovered a promising new drug candidate that […]
- Problem of fake medicines in developing countries could be solvedHalf of the malaria medication sold In Africa could be ineffective or even harmful. Researchers from Lund and the UK have now developed a technique that could resolve the situation Counterfeiting of drugs is a huge industry with an annual turnover of more than SEK 500 billion. In Africa the situation is extremely serious. Half of the malaria medication sold […]
- Mosquitoes use several different kinds of odor sensors to track human preyIt now appears that the malaria mosquito needs more than one family of odor sensors to sniff out its human prey. That is the implication of new research into the mosquito’s sense of smell published in the Aug. 31 issue of the online, open-access journal Public Library of Science Biology. The experiments described in the paper provide striking new evidence th […]
African Consultants
- Pee is for power: Your electrifying excretionsWhy let your waste go to waste when it could be powering your mobile phone – or even your car? IT IS a bright spring morning here at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK, where I have come to meet my … Continue reading → […]
- Innovation and commercialization, 2010: New survey resultsAfter coping with the global economic crisis, companies are beginning to aim for growth again. But their approach to managing innovation and the challenges they face haven’t changed. The survey results suggest a few ways to improve. Read more on … Continue reading → […]
