Perspective on Africa: ALD interviews Gabriel Negatu

In this interview Julie Gichuru from ALD sits down with Gabriel Negatu, Director of the Eastern African Regional Center of the Afri...

And the Winner is...Nobody

For the 3rd time in five years no African leader received the $5,000,000 Mo Ibrahim prize for leadership and excellence. Created by Su...

RapidSMS: Innovative Program for Mobile operating systems

RapidSMS is a free and open-source framework for rapidly building mobile services for scale.The tool is built with Python and Django (t...

Can you hear me now? How smartphones save lives in Africa

Disease tracking and monitoring in Africa has been difficult in the past, but a boom in cell phone adoption has created an opportunit...

In Africa, Blackberry is still King

In Africa, Blackberry has become the most popular smartphone in a booming market. While Blackberry’s stock may have dropped as low as...

Balancing the load: The software managing Kenya's Biggest Dam

A research team led by Sankar Arumugam at N.C. State has developed computer modeling software that improves water flow management at...

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