I was reading the news feed for the eLearning Africa 2010 Conference in Lusaka, Zambia, later this month. An interesting article discussed a recent study on the use of Open…
Today's track come from one of the best African acts out there from any African country, let alone Mali. They are Amadou & Mariam, a blind husband and wife team…
The eLearning Africa 2010 Conference planning seems to be in full swing. This year it will be in Lusaka, Zambia, on May 26-28, 2010. In general, this conference has been…
This is an absolutely brilliant talk about data and its use in the developing world by Hans Rosling. Rosling, at least according to Wikipedia, is "Professor of International Health at…
Further to my previous post about the difficulties encountered by many researchers in developing nations, I feel it is necessary that the situation is not all that bleak. In fact,…
Vannevar Bush, as quoted by Levy (PDF), described the notion occurring even in the early part of the 20th century of the various disciplinary silos rising up in higher education…
I just heard this via a tweet (@BoingBoing) and was immediately enthralled. It is the sound of four postal workers at the University of Ghana in 1975 going about the…
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