What’s your universities’ web presence like compared to others from around the world? Here’s the results on African universities. Some interesting findings, Makerere University in Uganda ranks around 59 while the University of Cape Town is number 1 for the continent.
The “Webometrics Ranking of World Universities” is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, [...]

The next time you check in to rehab they might ask you if you have a Facebook account…
Mr Marlon Parker, an IT lecturer at South Africa’s Cape Peninsula University of Technology, has started a drug counselling service using the cell phone chat service known as Mxit and the Facebook social networking application. “The main [...]

In August, students at Makerere University made international news headlines when they undertook the ambitious project of translating Mozilla’s Firefox web browser from English into the local Ugandan language of Luganda. At Campala2008 I had the pleasure of meeting Olweny San James, one of the student developers who participated in the Luganda-Firefox translation. [...]

Sabella Abidde writes..
Intellectual work, as Thandika Mkandawire puts it, is “quintessentially the labor of the mind and soul.” Intellectuals have played a major role in shaping passions, ideologies and societal visions.This is principally true in Nigeria, where for several decades — in spite of military autocracy and repression — intellectuals helped shaped public [...]

Since I began my research and subsequent move to Uganda, I’ve found a vast disparity in the amount of higher education available in the area of information technology as it relates to developing countries, NGOs, non-profits or developmental institutions. It think the implicit need for focus in this area is high as the discipline [...]

A recent report by HakiElimu suggests that the methods some have taken towards educating children in developing countries may not be the best approach.
HakiElimu was founded in 2001 by 13 Tanzanians with a clear, longstanding commitment to transforming public education for all children. Their action was influenced by a simple fact: education in [...]